Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Social histories of persecution and mass violence 1
4. Labor
5. Strategies of survival: Genocide and Armenian deportee labor, 1915–1918 15
6. Comparing Jewish labor in Poland, 1942–1945, and Armenian labor in the Ottoman Empire, 1915–1918 35
7. Family
8. The family under duress: A male perspective 51
9. “He was in our home like our own child”: Discourses of surrogacy and family relations after the Holocaust 71
10. Displacement
11. Strangers in a strange land: Refugees in Belarusian society under German occupation (1941–1944) 91
12. Caught between the guerrilla and the colonial state: Refugee life in Northern Mozambique during the Independence War (1964–1974) 115
13. Space
14. Space and place: Placing everyday life during the Holocaust 139
15. Hiding in the attic: Sounds and social situation 157
16. Collective action
17. Auditory quarrels, rage and collective action: A street singer and his audience within the web of the ghetto society 183
18. People Fell Like Flies: How Yiddish songs document history and collective action during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union 197
19. Mass violence as a social process
20. A local history of the Sobibór death camp and Nazi occupation 223
21. Society after violence
22. Orphans building homes: Forgotten remnants of the Armenian deportations in South Jordan 243
23. List of authors 267
24. Index 269