Sociology confronts the Holocaust
Subtitle: memories and identities in Jewish diasporas
By: edited by Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf.
Contributors: Gerson, Judith Madeleine, 1949-; Wolf, Diane L.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822339823; 9780822339991
Subjects: 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
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why the Holocaust? Why sociology? Why now? / Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf; title: Sociology and Holocaust study / Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf; title: Post-memory and post-Holocaust Jewish identity narratives / Debra Renee Kaufman; title: The Holocaust, orthodox Jewry, and the American Jewish community / Chaim I. Waxman; title: Traveling Jews, creating memory : Eastern Europe, Israel, and the diaspora business / Caryn Aviv and David Shneer; title: Trauma stories, identity work, and the politics of recognition / Arlene Stein; title: Responses to the Holocaust : discussing Jewish identity through the perspective of social construction / Richard Williams; title: In Cuba I was a German shepherd : questions of comparison and generalizability in Holocaust memoirs / Judith M. Gerson; title: Collective memory and cultural politics : narrating and commemorating the rescue of Jewish children by Belgian convents during the Holocaust / Suzanne Vromen; title: Holocaust testimony : producing post-memories, producing identities / Diane L. Wolf; title: Survivor testimonies, Holocaust memoirs : violence in Latin America / Irina Carlota Silber; title: Historicizing and locating testimonies / Ethel Brooks; title: In the land of milk and cows : rural German Jewish refugees and post-Holocaust; title: Adaptation / Rhonda F. Levine; title: Post-Holocaust Jewish migration : from refugees to transnationals / Steven J. Gold; title: "On halloween we dressed up like KGB agents" : reimagining Soviet Jewish refugee identities in the United States / Kathie Friedman; title: The paradigmatic status of Jewish immigration / Richard Alba; title: Circuits and networks : the case of the Jewish diaspora / Yen Le Espiritu; title: Availability, proximity, and identity in the Warsaw ghetto uprising : adding a sociological lens to studies of Jewish resistance / Rachel L. Einwohner; title: Agonies of defeat : "other Germanies" and the problem of collective guilt / Jeffrey K. Olick; title: The cosmopolitization of Holocaust memory : from Jewish to human experience / Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider; title: The sociology of knowledge and the Holocaust : a critique / Martin Oppenheimer; title: Violence, representation, and the nation / Leela Fernandes.