The trauma of the Jewish Holocaust has had the effect in scholarship of marginalizing it as a special case within the study of diaspora, ethnicity, and collection memory, yet as the contributors to this collection argue, the Holocaust and its aftermath ha
The trauma of the Jewish Holocaust has had the effect in scholarship of marginalizing it as a special case within the study of diaspora, ethnicity, and collection memory, yet as the contributors to this collection argue, the Holocaust and its aftermath ha
Acknowledgments ix Part 1: Reconsidering Holocaust Study Introduction: Why the Holocaust? Why Sociology? Why Now? / Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf 3 Sociology and Holocaust Study / Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf 11 Part 2: Jewish Identities in the Diaspora Post-memory and Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity Narratives / Debra Renee Kaufman 39 The Holocaust, Orthodox Jewry, and the American Jewish Community / Chaim I. Waxman 55 Traveling Jews, Creating Memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the Diaspora Business / Caryn Aviv and David Shneer 67 Trauma Stories, Identity Work, and the Politics of Recognition / Arlene Stein 84 Responses to the Holocaust: Discussing Jewish Identity Through the Perspective of Social Construction / Richard Williams 92 Part 3: Memory, Memoirs, and Post-Memory In Cuba I was a German Shepherd: Questions of Comparison and Generalizability in Holocaust Memoirs / Judith M. Gerson 115 Collective Memory and Cultural Politics: Narrating and Commemorating the Rescue of Jewish Children by Belgian Convents during the Holocaust / Suzanne Vromen 134 Holocaust Testimony: Producing Post-memories, Producing Identities / Diane L. Wolf 154 Survivor Testimonies, Holocaust Memoirs: Violence in Latin America / Irina Carlota Silber 176 Historicizing and Locating Testimonies / Ethel Brooks 185 Part 4: Immigration and Transnational Practices In the Land of Milk and Cows: Rural German Jewish Refugees and Post-Holocaust Adaptation / Rhonda F. Levine 197 Post-Holocaust Jewish migration: From Refugees to Transnationals / Steven J. Gold 215 “On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents”: Reimagining Soviet Jewish Refugee Identities in the United States / Kathie Friedman 236 The Paradigmatic Status of Jewish Immigration / Richard Alba 260 Circuits and Networks: The Case of the Jewish Diaspora / Yen Le Espiritu 266 Part 5: 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 277 The Agonies of Defeat: “Other Germanies” and the Problem of Collective Guilt / Jeffrey K. Olick 291 The Cosmpolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience / Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider 313 The Sociology of Knowledge and the Holocaust: A Critique / Martin Oppenheimer 331 Violence, Representation, and the Nation / Leela Fernandes 337 Bibliography 345 Contributors 385 Index 391
Acknowledgments ix Part 1: Reconsidering Holocaust Study Introduction: Why the Holocaust? Why Sociology? Why Now? / Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf 3 Sociology and Holocaust Study / Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf 11 Part 2: Jewish Identities in the Diaspora Post-memory and Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity Narratives / Debra Renee Kaufman 39 The Holocaust, Orthodox Jewry, and the American Jewish Community / Chaim I. Waxman 55 Traveling Jews, Creating Memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the Diaspora Business / Caryn Aviv and David Shneer 67 Trauma Stories, Identity Work, and the Politics of Recognition / Arlene Stein 84 Responses to the Holocaust: Discussing Jewish Identity Through the Perspective of Social Construction / Richard Williams 92 Part 3: Memory, Memoirs, and Post-Memory In Cuba I was a German Shepherd: Questions of Comparison and Generalizability in Holocaust Memoirs / Judith M. Gerson 115 Collective Memory and Cultural Politics: Narrating and Commemorating the Rescue of Jewish Children by Belgian Convents during the Holocaust / Suzanne Vromen 134 Holocaust Testimony: Producing Post-memories, Producing Identities / Diane L. Wolf 154 Survivor Testimonies, Holocaust Memoirs: Violence in Latin America / Irina Carlota Silber 176 Historicizing and Locating Testimonies / Ethel Brooks 185 Part 4: Immigration and Transnational Practices In the Land of Milk and Cows: Rural German Jewish Refugees and Post-Holocaust Adaptation / Rhonda F. Levine 197 Post-Holocaust Jewish migration: From Refugees to Transnationals / Steven J. Gold 215 “On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents”: Reimagining Soviet Jewish Refugee Identities in the United States / Kathie Friedman 236 The Paradigmatic Status of Jewish Immigration / Richard Alba 260 Circuits and Networks: The Case of the Jewish Diaspora / Yen Le Espiritu 266 Part 5: 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 277 The Agonies of Defeat: “Other Germanies” and the Problem of Collective Guilt / Jeffrey K. Olick 291 The Cosmpolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience / Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider 313 The Sociology of Knowledge and the Holocaust: A Critique / Martin Oppenheimer 331 Violence, Representation, and the Nation / Leela Fernandes 337 Bibliography 345 Contributors 385 Index 391
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