Sociology Confronts the Holocaust : Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas /

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This volume expands the intellectual exchange between researchers working on the Holocaust and post-Holocaust life and North American sociologists working on collective memory, diaspora, transnationalism, and immigration. The collection is comprised of two types of essays: primary research examining...

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Otros Autores: Alba, Richard (Contribuidor), Aviv, Caryn (Contribuidor), Brooks, Ethel (Contribuidor), Einwohner, Rachel L. (Contribuidor), Espiritu, Yen Le (Contribuidor), Fernandes, Leela (Contribuidor), Friedman, Kathie (Contribuidor), Gerson, Judith M. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Gold, Steven J. (Contribuidor), Kaufman, Debra Renee (Contribuidor), Levine, Rhonda F. (Contribuidor), Levy, Daniel (Contribuidor), Olick, Jeffrey K. (Contribuidor), Oppenheimer, Martin (Contribuidor), Shneer, David (Contribuidor), Silber, Irina Carlota (Contribuidor), Stein, Arlene (Contribuidor), Sznaider, Natan (Contribuidor), Vromen, Suzanne (Contribuidor), Waxman, Chaim I. (Contribuidor), Wolf, Diane L. (Contribuidor, Editor ), williams, Richard (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2007]
Temas:
Holocaust survivors > Biography > Congresses.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives > History and criticism > Congresses.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography > Congresses.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence > Congresses.
Sociology > Biographical methods > Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1 Reconsidering holocaust study
  • Introduction: Why the Holocaust? Why Sociology? Why Now?
  • Sociology and Holocaust Study
  • Part 2 Jewish identities in the diaspora
  • Post-memory and Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity Narratives
  • The Holocaust, Orthodox Jewry, and the American Jewish Community
  • Traveling Jews, Creating Memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the Diaspora Business
  • Trauma Stories, Identity Work, and the Politics of Recognition
  • Responses to the Holocaust: Discussing Jewish Identity through the Perspective of Social Construction
  • Part 3 Memory, memoirs, and post-memory
  • In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd: Questions of Comparison and Generalizability in Holocaust Memoirs
  • Collective Memory and Cultural Politics: Narrating and Commemorating the Rescue of Jewish Children by Belgian Convents during the Holocaust
  • Holocaust Testimony: Producing Post-memories, Producing Identities
  • Survivor Testimonies, Holocaust Memoirs: Violence in Latin America
  • Historicizing and Locating Testimonies
  • Part 4 Immigration and transnational practices
  • In the Land of Milk and Cows: Rural German Jewish Refugees and Post-Holocaust Adaptation
  • Post-Holocaust Jewish Migration: From Refugees to Transnationals
  • ''On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents'': Reimagining Soviet Jewish Refugee Identities in the United States
  • The Paradigmatic Status of Jewish Immigration
  • Circuits and Networks: The Case of the Jewish Diaspora
  • 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
  • The Agonies of Defeat: ''Other Germanies'' and the Problem of Collective Guilt
  • The Cosmopolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience
  • The Sociology of Knowledge and the Holocaust: A Critique
  • Violence, Representation, and the Nation
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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