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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 the Shoah and its aftermath using the analytic tools prominent in recent sociological scholarship, and commentaries on how that research contributes to ongoing inquiries in sociology and related fields.Contributors explore diasporic Jewish identities in the post-Holocaust years; the use of sociohistorical analysis in studying the genocide; immigration and transnationalism; and collective action, collective guilt, and collective memory. In so doing, they illuminate various facets of the Holocaust, and especially post-Holocaust, experience. They investigate topics including heritage tours that take young American Jews to Israel and Eastern Europe, the politics of memory in Steven Spielberg's collection of Shoah testimonies, and the ways that Jews who immigrated to the United States after the collapse of the Soviet Union understood nationality, religion, and identity. Contributors examine the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 in light of collective action research and investigate the various ways that the Holocaust has been imagined and recalled in Germany, Israel, and the United States. Included in the commentaries about sociology and Holocaust studies is an essay reflecting on how to study the Holocaust (and other atrocities) ethically, without exploiting violence and suffering.Contributors. Richard Alba, Caryn Aviv, Ethel Brooks, Rachel L. Einwohner, Yen Le Espiritu, Leela Fernandes, Kathie Friedman, Judith M. Gerson, Steven J. Gold , Debra R. Kaufman, Rhonda F. Levine , Daniel Levy, Jeffrey K. Olick, Martin Oppenheimer, David Shneer, Irina Carlota Silber, Arlene Stein, Natan Sznaider, Suzanne Vromen, Chaim Waxman, Richard Williams, Diane L. Wolf

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	11 juillet 2007
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822389682
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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SOCIOLOGY CONFRONTS THE HOLOCAUST

SOCIOLOGY

CONFRONTS THE

HOLOCAUST

Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

edited by judith m. gerson and diane l. wolf

DURHAM AND LONDON

2007

∫2007 Duke University Press

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book

Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of Rutgers University Research Council, which provided funds toward the production of this book.

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reconsidering holocaust study

C O N T E N T S

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

jewish identities in the diaspora

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

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Responses to the Holocaust: Discussing Jewish Identity through the Perspective of Social Construction Richard Williams

memory, memoirs, and post-memory

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

immigration and transnational practices

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

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Circuits and Networks: The Case of the Jewish Diaspora Yen Le Espiritu

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

The Agonies of Defeat: ‘‘Other Germanies’’ and the Problem of Collective Guilt Je√rey 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

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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

This book represents the culmination of considerable hard work by many of our colleagues and the support of several organizations, and we are pleased to have the opportunity to express our appreciation to each of them for their assistance. The initial impetus for the international conference on which this book is based grew out of informal conversations between the two editors as we found our-selves involved in our respective Holocaust-related research projects without su≈cient intellectual guideposts within sociology to analyze our ﬁndings. We planned a working conference on the Holocaust and post-Holocaust life to include primarily sociologists and other scholars working in the related ﬁelds of collective memory, diaspora, identity, gender, and transnationalism as a means to present work in progress and encourage an intellectual exchange between re-searchers involved in speciﬁc Holocaust-related projects and those in areas rele-vant for framing. In some sense, we hoped to bring the study of the Holocaust and its aftermath up to speed in sociology. That conference, held in October 2001 at Rutgers University, had the support of the American Sociological Association and of the National Science Founda-tion’s Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline. There is no question that we could not have proceeded to attract supplementary funding without the initial funding from this important program. We are also grateful for the crucial sup-port of the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, as well as of our home institutions, Rutgers University and the University of California, Davis. Within Rutgers, we

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