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