
The Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory
Beyond Sociology
Ronald J. Berger(Autor*in)
Routledge (Verlag)
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 30. Juli 2013
Buch
Softcover
294 Seiten
978-1-4128-5255-5 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solution took the lives of approximately six million Jews, amounting to roughly 60 percent of European Jewry and a third of the world's Jewish population. Studying the Holocaust from a sociological perspective, Ronald J. Berger explains why the Final Solution happened to a particular people for particular reasons; why the Jews were, for the Nazis, the central enemy. Taking a unique approach in its examination of the devastating event, The Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory fuses history and sociology in its study of the Holocaust.
Berger's book illuminates the Holocaust as a social construction. As historical scholarship on the Holocaust has proliferated, perhaps no other tragedy or event has been as thoroughly documented. Yet sociologists have paid less attention to the Holocaust than historians and have been slower to fully integrate the genocide into their corpus of disciplinary knowledge and realize that this monumental tragedy affords opportunities to examine issues that are central to main themes of sociological inquiry.
Berger's aim is to counter sociologists who argue that the genocide should be maintained as an area of study unto itself, as a topic that should be segregated from conventional sociology courses and general concerns of sociological inquiry. The author argues that the issues raised by the Holocaust are central to social science as well as historical studies.
Berger's book illuminates the Holocaust as a social construction. As historical scholarship on the Holocaust has proliferated, perhaps no other tragedy or event has been as thoroughly documented. Yet sociologists have paid less attention to the Holocaust than historians and have been slower to fully integrate the genocide into their corpus of disciplinary knowledge and realize that this monumental tragedy affords opportunities to examine issues that are central to main themes of sociological inquiry.
Berger's aim is to counter sociologists who argue that the genocide should be maintained as an area of study unto itself, as a topic that should be segregated from conventional sociology courses and general concerns of sociological inquiry. The author argues that the issues raised by the Holocaust are central to social science as well as historical studies.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
USA
Verlagsgruppe
Taylor & Francis Inc
Zielgruppe
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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395 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4128-5255-5 (9781412852555)
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Inhalt
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
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