Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas

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Sociology Confronts the Holocaust

Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas

Edited by: Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2007

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The trauma of the Jewish Holocaust has had the effect in scholarship of marginalizing it as a special case within the study of diaspora, ethnicity, and collection memory, yet as the contributors to this collection argue, the Holocaust and its aftermath ha

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Judith M. Gerson is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, where she is also an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Jewish Studies.

Diane L. Wolf is Professor of Sociology and a member of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland.

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“Sociology Confronts the Holocaust 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

“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 Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Part 1 Reconsidering holocaust study
Introduction: Why the Holocaust? Why Sociology? Why Now? Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Sociology and Holocaust Study Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
Part 2 Jewish identities in the diaspora
Post-memory and Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity Narratives Debra Renee Kaufman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
The Holocaust, Orthodox Jewry, and the American Jewish Community Chaim I. Waxman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Traveling Jews, Creating Memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the Diaspora Business Caryn Aviv and David Shneer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Trauma Stories, Identity Work, and the Politics of Recognition Arlene Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	84
Responses to the Holocaust: Discussing Jewish Identity through the Perspective of Social Construction Richard williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	92
Part 3 Memory, memoirs, and post-memory
In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd: Questions of Comparison and Generalizability in Holocaust Memoirs Judith M. Gerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
Collective Memory and Cultural Politics: Narrating and Commemorating the Rescue of Jewish Children by Belgian Convents during the Holocaust Suzanne Vromen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	134
Holocaust Testimony: Producing Post-memories, Producing Identities Diane L. Wolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	154
Survivor Testimonies, Holocaust Memoirs: Violence in Latin America Irina Carlota Silber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	176
Historicizing and Locating Testimonies Ethel Brooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Part 4 Immigration and transnational practices
In the Land of Milk and Cows: Rural German Jewish Refugees and Post-Holocaust Adaptation Rhonda F. Levine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
Post-Holocaust Jewish Migration: From Refugees to Transnationals Steven J. Gold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
‘‘On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents’’: Reimagining Soviet Jewish Refugee Identities in the United States Kathie Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	236
The Paradigmatic Status of Jewish Immigration Richard Alba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	260
Circuits and Networks: The Case of the Jewish Diaspora Yen Le Espiritu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	266
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 Rachel L. Einwohner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
The Agonies of Defeat: ‘‘Other Germanies’’ and the Problem of Collective Guilt Jeffrey K. Olick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
The Cosmopolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
The Sociology of Knowledge and the Holocaust: A Critique Martin Oppenheimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	331
Violence, Representation, and the Nation Leela Fernandes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	337
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	385
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391

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