Sociology confronts the Holocaust : memories and identities in Jewish diasporas / edited by Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.Description: xi, 407 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 082233982X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822339994 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780822339823 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822339991 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53 22 G324s
LOC classification:
  • D 804.348 .S63 2007
Online resources:
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.

"... held in Octobre 2001 at Rutgers University"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-383) and index.

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.

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