Sociology and the Holocaust: A Discipline Grapples with History [Hardcover]

Preface1 Personal and Professional RootsA Second Generation PerspectiveTerms of the InquiryThe Indifference of a Discipline2 On the Shoulders of GiantsSociologists of the 1930s and 1940sThe Trifocal Lens of Classical TheoryA General Theory and Case Study of Structure and Agency3 Antisemitism and Pseudoscientific RacismThe Development of Christian AntisemitismThe Confluence of Antisemitism and RacismNazi Eugenics and the Medicalization of Genocide4 The Class Composition and Economics of NazismNazi Party Membership and Election StudiesEconomic Exclusion, Aryanization, and Mass TheftNazi and Corporate Enterprises5 The Nazi State, Bureaucracy, and Response of the JewsThe Inner Circle of the Nazi StateNazi Cultural OrganizationsFrom the Nuremberg Laws to the Final SolutionGhettoizationOpen-Air Shootings and Concentration Camps6 The Response of the AlliesThe Prewar PeriodThe Wartime PeriodThe Immediate Postwar Period7 National Collective Memories of the HolocaustThe Federal Republic of GermanyIsraelThe United StatesPoland8 It Is Happening HereThe New AuthoritarianismThe Question of FascismThe White Power and Patriot MovementsThe Radicalization of the Republican PartyConcluding Reflections on Contemporary AntisemitismReferencesIndexRonald J. Berger is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He is the author of The Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory (2012) and Surviving the Holocaust (Routledge, 2011).

Bergers work will play a significant role in any future investigation of the Holocaust from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Readers of this book will realize how lacking the new field of Holocaust Studies is without the contribution of sociology. ?????

- Dr. Shay Pilnik, Director, Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,?Yeshiva University

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