Holocaust Testimony: Producing Post-memories, Producing Identities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Part 1 Reconsidering holocaust study
5. Introduction: Why the Holocaust? Why Sociology? Why Now? 1
6. Sociology and Holocaust Study 11
7. Part 2 Jewish identities in the diaspora
8. Post-memory and Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity Narratives 35
9. The Holocaust, Orthodox Jewry, and the American Jewish Community 55
10. Traveling Jews, Creating Memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the Diaspora Business 67
11. Trauma Stories, Identity Work, and the Politics of Recognition 84
12. Responses to the Holocaust: Discussing Jewish Identity through the Perspective of Social Construction 92
13. Part 3 Memory, memoirs, and post-memory
14. In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd: Questions of Comparison and Generalizability in Holocaust Memoirs 111
15. Collective Memory and Cultural Politics: Narrating and Commemorating the Rescue of Jewish Children by Belgian Convents during the Holocaust 134
16. Holocaust Testimony: Producing Post-memories, Producing Identities 154
17. Survivor Testimonies, Holocaust Memoirs: Violence in Latin America 176
18. Historicizing and Locating Testimonies 185
19. Part 4 Immigration and transnational practices
20. In the Land of Milk and Cows: Rural German Jewish Refugees and Post-Holocaust Adaptation 197
21. Post-Holocaust Jewish Migration: From Refugees to Transnationals 215
22. ‘‘On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents’’: Reimagining Soviet Jewish Refugee Identities in the United States 236
23. The Paradigmatic Status of Jewish Immigration 260
24. Circuits and Networks: The Case of the Jewish Diaspora 266
25. Part 5 Collective action, collective guilt, collective memory
26. Availability, Proximity, and Identity in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Adding a Sociological Lens to Studies of Jewish Resistance 273
27. The Agonies of Defeat: ‘‘Other Germanies’’ and the Problem of Collective Guilt 291
28. The Cosmopolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience 313
29. The Sociology of Knowledge and the Holocaust: A Critique 331
30. Violence, Representation, and the Nation 337
31. Bibliography 345
32. Contributors 385
33. Index 391