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Title Sociology confronts the Holocaust : memories and identities in Jewish diasporas / edited by Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 407 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction: Why the Holocaust? Why sociology? Why now? / Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf -- Sociology and Holocaust study / Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf -- Post-memory and post-Holocaust Jewish identity narratives / Debra Renee Kaufman -- The Holocaust, orthodox Jewry, and the American Jewish community / Chaim I. Waxman -- Traveling Jews, creating memory : Eastern Europe, Israel, and the diaspora business / Caryn Aviv and David Shneer -- Trauma stories, identity work, and the politics of recognition / Arlene Stein -- Responses to the Holocaust : discussing Jewish identity through the perspective of social construction / Richard Williams -- In Cuba I was a German shepherd : questions of comparison and generalizability in Holocaust memoirs / Judith M. Gerson -- Collective memory and cultural politics : narrating and commemorating the rescue of Jewish children by Belgian convents during the Holocaust / Suzanne Vromen -- Holocaust testimony : producing post-memories, producing identities / Diane L. Wolf -- Survivor testimonies, Holocaust memoirs : violence in Latin America / Irina Carlota Silber -- Historicizing and locating testimonies / Ethel Brooks -- In the land of milk and cows : rural German Jewish refugees and post-Holocaust adaptation / Rhonda F. Levine -- Post-Holocaust Jewish migration : from refugees to transnationals / Steven J. Gold -- "On Halloween we dressed up like KGB agents" : reimagining Soviet Jewish refugee identities in the United States / Kathie Friedman -- The paradigmatic status of Jewish immigration / Richard Alba -- Circuits and networks : the case of the Jewish diaspora / Yen Le Espiritu -- Availability, proximity, and identity in the Warsaw ghetto uprising : adding a sociological lens to studies of Jewish resistance / Rachel L. Einwohner -- The agonies of defeat : "other Germanies" and the problem of collective guilt / Jeffrey K. Olick -- The cosmopolitanization of Holocaust memory : from Jewish to human experience / Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider -- The sociology of knowledge and the Holocaust : a critique / Martin Oppenheimer -- Violence, representation, and the nation / Leela Fernandes
Summary This volume expands the intellectual exchange between researchers working on the Holocaust and post-Holocaust life and North American sociologists working on collective memory, diaspora, transnationalism, and immigration. The collection is comprised of two types of essays: primary research examining the Shoah and its aftermath using the analytic tools prominent in recent sociological scholarship, and commentaries on how that research contributes to ongoing inquiries in sociology and related fields. Contributors explore diasporic Jewish identities in the post-Holocaust years; the use of sociohistorical analysis in studying the genocide; immigration and transnationalism; and collective action, collective guilt, and collective memory. In so doing, they illuminate various facets of the Holocaust, and especially post-Holocaust, experience. They investigate topics including heritage tours that take young American Jews to Israel and Eastern Europe, the politics of memory in Steven Spielberg's collection of Shoah testimonies, and the ways that Jews who immigrated to the United States after the collapse of the Soviet Union understood nationality, religion, and identity. Contributors examine the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 in light of collective action research and investigate the various ways that the Holocaust has been imagined and recalled in Germany, Israel, and the United States. Included in the commentaries about sociology and Holocaust studies is an essay reflecting on how to study the Holocaust (and other atrocities) ethically, without exploiting violence and suffering. Contributors. Richard Alba, Caryn Aviv, Ethel Brooks, Rachel L. Einwohner, Yen Le Espiritu, Leela Fernandes, Kathie Friedman, Judith M. Gerson, Steven J. Gold, Debra R. Kaufman, Rhonda F. Levine, Daniel Levy, Jeffrey K. Olick, Martin Oppenheimer, David Shneer, Irina Carlota Silber, Arlene Stein, Natan Sznaider, Suzanne Vromen, Chaim Waxman, Richard Williams, Diane L. Wolf
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-383) and index
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SUBJECT Kongress New Brunswick 2001. swd
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography -- Congresses
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence -- Congresses
Holocaust survivors -- Biography -- Congresses
Sociology -- Biographical methods -- Congresses
Holocaust survivors -- Biography -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Holocaust survivors -- Biography
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Historiography
Holocaust survivors
Sociology -- Biographical methods
Holocaust.
Judenvernichtung
Soziologie
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Geschichtsschreibung
Diaspora -- Juden.
Judenvernichtung -- Überlebender -- Biographie.
Überlebender -- Judenvernichtung -- Biographie.
Soziologie -- Judenverfolgung.
Judenverfolgung -- Soziologie.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Holocaust survivors -- Biography.
Sociology -- Biographical methods.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Gerson, Judith Madeleine, 1949- editor.
Wolf, Diane L., editor.
ISBN 9780822389682
0822389681