Sociology confronts the Holocaust

Titel: Sociology confronts the Holocaust : memories and identities in Jewish diasporas / edited by Judith M. Gerson ...
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Veröffentlicht: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007
Umfang: XI, 407 Seiten ; 25 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 0822339994 ; 9780822339991 ; 082233982X ; 9780822339823
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1
  • Reconsidering Holocaust Study
  • Introduction: Why the Holocaust? Why Sociology? Why Now?
  • Sociology and Holocaust Study
  • Part 2
  • Jewish Identities in the Diaspora
  • Post-memory and Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity Narratives
  • The Holocaust, Orthodox Jewry, and the American Jewish Community
  • Traveling Jews, Creating Memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the Diaspora Business
  • Trauma Stories, Identity Work, and the Politics of Recognition
  • Responses to the Holocaust: Discussing Jewish Identity Through the Perspective of Social Construction
  • Part 3
  • Memory, Memoirs, and Post-Memory
  • In Cuba I was a German Shepherd: Questions of Comparison and Generalizability in Holocaust Memoirs
  • Collective Memory and Cultural Politics: Narrating and Commemorating the Rescue of Jewish Children by Belgian Convents during the Holocaust
  • Holocaust Testimony: Producing Post-memories, Producing Identities
  • Survivor Testimonies, Holocaust Memoirs: Violence in Latin America
  • Historicizing and Locating Testimonies
  • Part 4
  • Immigration and Transnational Practices
  • In the Land of Milk and Cows: Rural German Jewish Refugees and Post-Holocaust Adaptation
  • Post-Holocaust Jewish migration: From Refugees to Transnationals
  • "On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents": Reimagining Soviet Jewish Refugee Identities in the United States
  • The Paradigmatic Status of Jewish Immigration
  • Circuits and Networks: The Case of the Jewish Diaspora
  • Part 5
  • Collective Action, Collective Guilt, Collective Memory
  • Availability, Proximity, and Identity in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Adding a Sociological Lens to Studies of Jewish Resistance
  • The Agonies of Defeat: "Other Germanies" and the Problem of Collective Guilt
  • The Cosmpolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience
  • The Sociology of Knowledge and the Holocaust: A Critique
  • Violence, Representation, and the Nation
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index