Preface
1 Sociology and the Holocaust
2 Why the Jews?
3 The Rise of Nazism and the Evolution of Anti-Jewish Policy
4 The Social Structure of the Genocidal Regime
5 Jewish Responses to the Holocaust
6 Bystanders and Third-Party Resistance
7 European Collective Memories: Germany and Poland
8 Jewish Collective Memories: Israel and the United States
9 Genocide, Religion, and Social Solidarity
References
Index
Ronald J. Berger is professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. His work has appeared in Contexts, Perspectives on Social Problems, Qualitative Inquiry, Social Science Quarterly, and Sociological Quarterly. He is the author of numerous books, including Surviving the Holocaust: A Life Course Perspective and White-Collar Crime: The Abuse of Corporate and Government Power.
-[Berger] aims to integrate the study of the Holocaust into the
wider sociological study of genocide, and the way such events are
handled and remembered. He does this largely though a distillation
of some of the principal contributions (mostly by historians) to
the study of the Holocaust. The author is particularly interested
in the question of why the Jews were singled out by the Nazis. This
then becomes the basis for tracing the impact of the Holocaust on
historical memory not just among Jews in Israel, but also among
others, such as non-Jewish Poles, Germans, and Americans... [A]
compact, useful study... Recommended.- --K. Kumar, Choice -In a
work of careful synthetic scholarship that can be read at the same
time as a profound meditation on the Holocaust and the politics of
memory, Ronald Berger provides a characteristically insightful and
compelling account. The book's wide-ranging agenda moves deftly
from exploring the deep history of anti-Semitism and the more
contingent elements of twentieth-century Germany to subsequent
attempts to make sense of the competing explanations for this
traumatic historical experience. As such, he is committed to a
project his disciplinary peers have generally been hesitant to
develop: a sociology of evil. Moving past the event, Berger traces
the emergence of the varied expressions of collective remembrance
once the social amnesia characteristic of the immediate postwar
period had passed. Without ever forgetting the uniqueness of the
Jewish encounter with evil, Berger is intent on encouraging readers
to seek out the universal significance of this particular trauma by
linking it to more recent genocides--and in so doing, attempting to
encourage the creation of bonds of solidarity with all those who
suffer at the hands of oppressors.- --Peter Kivisto, Augustana
College and University of Turku
"[Berger] aims to integrate the study of the Holocaust into the
wider sociological study of genocide, and the way such events are
handled and remembered. He does this largely though a distillation
of some of the principal contributions (mostly by historians) to
the study of the Holocaust. The author is particularly interested
in the question of why the Jews were singled out by the Nazis. This
then becomes the basis for tracing the impact of the Holocaust on
historical memory not just among Jews in Israel, but also among
others, such as non-Jewish Poles, Germans, and Americans... [A]
compact, useful study... Recommended." --K. Kumar, Choice "In a
work of careful synthetic scholarship that can be read at the same
time as a profound meditation on the Holocaust and the politics of
memory, Ronald Berger provides a characteristically insightful and
compelling account. The book's wide-ranging agenda moves deftly
from exploring the deep history of anti-Semitism and the more
contingent elements of twentieth-century Germany to subsequent
attempts to make sense of the competing explanations for this
traumatic historical experience. As such, he is committed to a
project his disciplinary peers have generally been hesitant to
develop: a sociology of evil. Moving past the event, Berger traces
the emergence of the varied expressions of collective remembrance
once the social amnesia characteristic of the immediate postwar
period had passed. Without ever forgetting the uniqueness of the
Jewish encounter with evil, Berger is intent on encouraging readers
to seek out the universal significance of this particular trauma by
linking it to more recent genocides--and in so doing, attempting to
encourage the creation of bonds of solidarity with all those who
suffer at the hands of oppressors." --Peter Kivisto, Augustana
College and University of Turku
"[Berger] aims to integrate the study of the Holocaust into the
wider sociological study of genocide, and the way such events are
handled and remembered. He does this largely though a distillation
of some of the principal contributions (mostly by historians) to
the study of the Holocaust. The author is particularly interested
in the question of why the Jews were singled out by the Nazis. This
then becomes the basis for tracing the impact of the Holocaust on
historical memory not just among Jews in Israel, but also among
others, such as non-Jewish Poles, Germans, and Americans... [A]
compact, useful study... Recommended." --K. Kumar, Choice "In a
work of careful synthetic scholarship that can be read at the same
time as a profound meditation on the Holocaust and the politics of
memory, Ronald Berger provides a characteristically insightful and
compelling account. The book's wide-ranging agenda moves deftly
from exploring the deep history of anti-Semitism and the more
contingent elements of twentieth-century Germany to subsequent
attempts to make sense of the competing explanations for this
traumatic historical experience. As such, he is committed to a
project his disciplinary peers have generally been hesitant to
develop: a sociology of evil. Moving past the event, Berger traces
the emergence of the varied expressions of collective remembrance
once the social amnesia characteristic of the immediate postwar
period had passed. Without ever forgetting the uniqueness of the
Jewish encounter with evil, Berger is intent on encouraging readers
to seek out the universal significance of this particular trauma by
linking it to more recent genocides--and in so doing, attempting to
encourage the creation of bonds of solidarity with all those who
suffer at the hands of oppressors." --Peter Kivisto, Augustana
College and University of Turku
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