{"product_id":"sociology-confronts-the-holocaust-9780822339991","title":"Sociology Confronts the Holocaust","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSociology Confronts the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e does not simply reflect a field: It creates one. The productive movement back and forth between the particular case of the Holocaust and general conceptual concerns of sociology is a substantial intellectual achievement.”—Robert Zussman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst\u003cbr\u003e“While research on the Holocaust exists in a variety of disciplines, a sociology of the Holocaust has yet to be fully developed and articulated. This book therefore fills a significant gap in Holocaust studies, bringing a much needed theoretical and empirical perspective to the field.”—Janet Liebman Jacobs, author of \u003ci\u003eHidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This volume is a welcome addition to the field of Holocaust studies. In seeking to address the gap in the sociological study of ethnic and religious genocide, the book brings together a diverse group of social thinkers, each of whom offers a unique and important sociological approach to the study of the Holocaust.” -- Janet Jacobs * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Reconsidering Holocaust Study \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Why the Holocaust? Why Sociology? Why Now? \/ Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf 3\u003cbr\u003e Sociology and Holocaust Study \/ Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf 11\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Jewish Identities in the Diaspora \u003cbr\u003e Post-memory and Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity Narratives \/ Debra Renee Kaufman 39\u003cbr\u003e The Holocaust, Orthodox Jewry, and the American Jewish Community \/ Chaim I. Waxman 55\u003cbr\u003e Traveling Jews, Creating Memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the Diaspora Business \/ Caryn Aviv and David Shneer 67\u003cbr\u003e Trauma Stories, Identity Work, and the Politics of Recognition \/ Arlene Stein 84\u003cbr\u003e Responses to the Holocaust: Discussing Jewish Identity Through the Perspective of Social Construction \/ Richard Williams 92\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Memory, Memoirs, and Post-Memory \u003cbr\u003e In Cuba I was a German Shepherd: Questions of Comparison and Generalizability in Holocaust Memoirs \/ Judith M. Gerson 115\u003cbr\u003e Collective Memory and Cultural Politics: Narrating and Commemorating the Rescue of Jewish Children by Belgian Convents during the Holocaust \/ Suzanne Vromen 134\u003cbr\u003e Holocaust Testimony: Producing Post-memories, Producing Identities \/ Diane L. Wolf 154\u003cbr\u003e Survivor Testimonies, Holocaust Memoirs: Violence in Latin America \/ Irina Carlota Silber 176\u003cbr\u003e Historicizing and Locating Testimonies \/ Ethel Brooks 185\u003cbr\u003e Part 4: Immigration and Transnational Practices \u003cbr\u003e In the Land of Milk and Cows: Rural German Jewish Refugees and Post-Holocaust Adaptation \/ Rhonda F. Levine 197\u003cbr\u003e Post-Holocaust Jewish migration: From Refugees to Transnationals \/ Steven J. Gold 215\u003cbr\u003e “On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents”: Reimagining Soviet Jewish Refugee Identities in the United States \/ Kathie Friedman 236\u003cbr\u003e The Paradigmatic Status of Jewish Immigration \/ Richard Alba 260\u003cbr\u003e Circuits and Networks: The Case of the Jewish Diaspora \/ Yen Le Espiritu 266\u003cbr\u003e Part 5: Collective Action, Collective Guilt, Collective Memory \u003cbr\u003e Availability, Proximity, and Identity in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Adding a Sociological Lens to Studies of Jewish Resistance \/ Rachel L. Einwohner 277\u003cbr\u003e The Agonies of Defeat: “Other Germanies” and the Problem of Collective Guilt \/ Jeffrey K. Olick 291\u003cbr\u003e The Cosmpolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience \/ Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider 313\u003cbr\u003e The Sociology of Knowledge and the Holocaust: A Critique \/ Martin Oppenheimer 331\u003cbr\u003e Violence, Representation, and the Nation \/ Leela Fernandes 337\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 345\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 385\u003cbr\u003e Index 391","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406046372183,"sku":"9780822339991","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822339991.jpg?v=1730494353","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sociology-confronts-the-holocaust-9780822339991","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}