Fathoming The Holocaust

Author : Ronald J. Berger
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0202366111

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Fathoming the Holocaust by Ronald J. Berger Pdf

Fathoming the Holocaust represents the culmination of a singular effort to attempt to explain the Final Solution to the "Jewish Problem" in terms of a general theory of social problems construction. The book is comprehensive in scope, covering the origins and emergence of the Final Solution, wartime reaction to it, and the postwar memory of the genocide. It does so within the framework of a social problems construction, a perspective that treats social problems not as a condition but as an activity that identifies and defines problems, persuades others that something must be done about them, and generates practical programs of remedial action. Berger holds that social problems have a "natural history," that is, they evolve through a sequence of stages that entail the development and unfolding of claims about problems and the formulation and implementation of solutions. Fathoming the Holocaust is therefore a book that aims to advance sociological understanding of the Holocaust, not simply to describe its history, but to examine its social construction, that is, to understand it as a consequence of concerted human activity. In doing so, Berger hopes to encourage the teaching of the Holocaust in the social scientific curricula of higher education. In contrast to the extensive historical literature on the Holocaust, Berger offers a distinctly sociological approach that examines how the Holocaust was constructed--first as a social policy designed by the Nazis, implemented by functionaries, and resisted by its victims and opponents; later as several varying layers of historical memory. The scope of this book extends from the prewar through the contemporary periods, focusing on the societal issues governing the interpreting of these events in Israel, the German Federal Republic, and the United States. Berger's is a text with both large general interest and essential material for courses in social problems, European history, and Jewish studies. Ronald J. Berger, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, has previously published six books and numerous articles and book chapters. His earlier book on the Holocaust was a sociological account of his father and uncle's survival experiences.

Author : Ronald J. Berger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015035017279

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Constructing a Collective Memory of the Holocaust by Ronald J. Berger Pdf

This is a gripping cross-generational study that combines personal narrative and sociological analysis to provide an interpretive account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust.

Author : James A. Holstein,Jaber F. Gubrium
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462514816

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Handbook of Constructionist Research by James A. Holstein,Jaber F. Gubrium Pdf

Constructionism has become one of the most popular research approaches in the social sciences. But until now, little attention has been given to the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of the constructionist stance, and the remarkable diversity within the field. This cutting-edge handbook brings together a dazzling array of scholars to review the foundations of constructionist research, how it is put into practice in multiple disciplines, and where it may be headed in the future. The volume critically examines the analytic frameworks, strategies of inquiry, and methodological choices that together form the mosaic of contemporary constructionism, making it an authoritative reference for anyone interested in conducting research in a constructionist vein.

Author : Ronald Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136948893

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Surviving the Holocaust by Ronald Berger Pdf

Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author’s father, endured several concentration camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a horrific winter death march; while the other brother, the author’s uncle, survived outside the camps by passing as a Catholic among anti-Semitic Poles, including a group of anti-Nazi Polish Partisans, eventually becoming an officer in the Soviet army. As an exemplary "theorized life history," Surviving the Holocaust applies concepts from life course theory to interpret the trajectories of the brothers’ lives, enhancing this approach with insights from agency-structure and collective memory theory. Challenging the conventional wisdom that survival was simply a matter of luck, it highlights the prewar experiences, agentive decision-making and risk-taking, and collective networks that helped the brothers elude the death grip of the Nazi regime. Surviving the Holocaust also shows how one family’s memory of the Holocaust is commingled with the memories of larger collectivities, including nations-states and their institutions, and how the memories of individual survivors are infused with collective symbolic meaning.

Author : Ronald J. Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351481410

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The Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory by Ronald J. Berger Pdf

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.

Author : Shelomo Alfassa
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780976322634

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Reference Guide to the Nazis and Arabs During the Holocaust by Shelomo Alfassa Pdf

Author : Erin McGlothlin
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814346150

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The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction by Erin McGlothlin Pdf

Examines textual representations of the consciousness of men responsible for committing Holocaust crimes.

Author : Boaz Kahana,Zev Harel,Eva Kahana
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780387229737

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Holocaust Survivors and Immigrants by Boaz Kahana,Zev Harel,Eva Kahana Pdf

Based on a unique research study, this volume examines the later life development of Holocaust survivors from Israel and the US. Through systematic interviews, the authors – noted researchers and clinicians – collected data about the lives of these survivors and how they compared to peers who did not share this experience. The orientation of the book synthesizes several conceptual approaches – gerontological and life span development, stress research, and traumatology, and also reflects the varied disciplines of the authors, spanning psychology, social work, and sociology. The result is a multi-faceted view of their subject with an understanding of the individual, society, and the interaction of the two, tempered by the authors’ own Holocaust experiences. Chapters cover a range of areas including stress and coping of these survivors, reviews of their heath and mental health, an examination of their social integration, as well as a review of the multiple predictors of psychological well-being and adaptation to aging. This book will be of interest to psychologists, social workers, sociologists, psychiatrists, and all those who study both trauma and aging.

Author : Arthur B. Shostak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351627771

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Stealth Altruism by Arthur B. Shostak Pdf

Though it has been nearly seventy years since the Holocaust, the human capacity for evil displayed by its perpetrators is still shocking and haunting. But the story of the Nazi attempt to annihilate European Jewry is not all we should remember. Stealth Altruism tells of secret, non-militant, high-risk efforts by “Carers,” those victims who tried to reduce suffering and improve everyone’s chances of survival. Their empowering acts of altruism remind us of our inherent longing to do good even in situations of extraordinary brutality. Arthur B. Shostak explores forbidden acts of kindness, such as sharing scarce clothing and food rations, holding up weakened fellow prisoners during roll call, secretly replacing an ailing friend in an exhausting work detail, and much more. He explores the motivation behind this dangerous behavior, how it differed when in or out of sight, who provided or undermined forbidden care, the differing experiences of men and women, how and why gentiles provided aid, and, most importantly, how might the costly obscurity of stealth altruism soon be corrected. To date, memorialization has emphasized what was done to victims and sidelined what victims tried to do for one another. “Carers” provide an inspiring model and their perilous efforts should be recognized and taught alongside the horrors of the Holocaust. Humanity needs such inspiration.

Author : Dana Evan Kaplan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139827003

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The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism by Dana Evan Kaplan Pdf

This volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the most important and interesting historical and contemporary facets of Judaism in America. Written by twenty-four leading scholars from the fields of religious studies, American history and literature, philosophy, art history, sociology, and musicology, the book adopts an inclusive perspective on Jewish religious experience. Three initial chapters cover the development of Judaism in America from 1654, when Sephardic Jews first landed in New Amsterdam, until today. Subsequent chapters include cutting-edge scholarship and original ideas while remaining accessible at an introductory level. A secondary goal of this volume is to help its readers better understand the more abstract term of 'religion' in a Jewish context. The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism will be of interest not only to scholars but also to all readers interested in social and intellectual trends in the modern world.

Author : Michael Zank,Ingrid Anderson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004292697

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The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience by Michael Zank,Ingrid Anderson Pdf

The Value of the Particular assembles original essays by senior and junior scholars in comparative religion, philosophy of religion, modern Judaism, and post-Holocaust studies, fields of inquiry where Steven T. Katz made major contributions.

Author : Graham Charles Kinloch,Raj P. Mohan
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875863801

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Genocide by Graham Charles Kinloch,Raj P. Mohan Pdf

Violence in genocidal proportions continues to plague many parts of the world, despite increasing global sensitivity to human rights issues and international intervention in societies experiencing severe forms of intergroup conflict. Any optimism regarding improving the "human condition" in the new century, despite significant political, economic, and social advancements, appears prematurely naive and optimistic, particularly Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific. What do these destructive trends reflect? With reference to the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, Rwanda and other horrific examples, a selection of international scholars explore several conceptual and theoretical issues relating to "genocide" from perspectives including those of Germany, Israel, Italy, Zimbabwe and the United States. The co-editors also have diverse backgrounds, including experience in southern Africa and India. Major topics include issues of definition, varying types of genocide, theoretical and methodological approaches, policy implications, detailed case studies of genocidal situations, and evaluation of particular attempts to prevent this kind of destruction generally. Particular attention is accorded degrees and types of genocide, as well as any society's potential for this kind of deadly behavior. In addition, survivors' responses are explored, and the ways in which different cultures from Europe's Jews to the Tibetan diaspora relate to their losses, use them in reformulating their cultural identity, and commemorate their dead. The book is multi-disciplinary, world-wide, varied, and as practical as possible. Authors focus on a particular aspect of genocide, explore it in detail withregard to its relevance and development over time, and evaluate its implications for human rights policies both internationally and within particular contexts, with the aim of developing new and practical insights and possible policy implications for reducing this human destruction. This work includes new chapters and several revised papers from a special issue of the International Journal of Contemporary Sociology. * Graham Kinloch, Editor, has been on the sociology faculty at the Florida State University since 1971. He has published several books and articles on minority and race relations, sociological theory, and intergroup violence and genocide. Dr. Kinloch was born in Zimbabwe. His co-editor Raj P. Mohan is Professor of Sociology at Auburn University and is editor of The International Journal of Contemporary Sociology. Author of numerous books and research articles on sociological themes including the intelligentsia and organizations, he co-edited Ideology and the Social Sciences with Graham Kinloch, published by Greenwood Press in 2000.

Author : Nestar Russell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319979991

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Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2 by Nestar Russell Pdf

Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars. Based on unpublished archival data from Milgram’s personal collection, volume one of this two-volume set introduces readers to a behind the scenes account showing how during Milgram’s unpublished pilot studies he step-by-step invented his official experimental procedure—how he gradually learnt to transform most ordinary people into willing inflictors of harm. The open access volume two then illustrates how certain innovators within the Nazi regime used the very same Milgram-like learning techniques that with increasing effectiveness gradually enabled them to also transform most ordinary people into increasingly capable executioners of other men, women, and children. Volume two effectively attempts to capture how step-by-step these Nazi innovators attempted to transform the Führer’s wish of a Jewish-free Europe into a frightening reality. By the books’ end the reader will gain an insight into how the seemingly undoable can become increasingly doable.

Author : Ilan Pappé
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783605910

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Israel and South Africa by Ilan Pappé Pdf

Within the already heavily polarised debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa remain highly contentious. A number of prominent academic and political commentators, including former US president Jimmy Carter and UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard, have argued that Israel's treatment of its Arab-Israeli citizens and the people of the occupied territories amounts to a system of oppression no less brutal or inhumane than that of South Africa's white supremacists. Similarly, boycott and disinvestment campaigns comparable to those employed by anti-apartheid activists have attracted growing support. Yet while the 'apartheid question' has become increasingly visible in this debate, there has been little in the way of genuine scholarly analysis of the similarities (or otherwise) between the Zionist and apartheid regimes. In Israel and South Africa, Ilan Pappé, one of Israel's preeminent academics and a noted critic of the current government, brings together lawyers, journalists, policy makers and historians of both countries to assess the implications of the apartheid analogy for international law, activism and policy making. With contributors including the distinguished anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils, Israel and South Africa offers a bold and incisive perspective on one of the defining moral questions of our age.

Author : Peter C Brown
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526773777

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The Forgotten German Genocide by Peter C Brown Pdf

The Potsdam Conference (officially known as the "Berlin Conference"), was held from 17 July to 2 August 1945 at Cecilienhof Palace, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Brandenburg, and saw the leaders of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, gathered together to decide how to demilitarize, denazify, decentralize, and administer Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender on 8 May (VE Day). They determined that the remaining German populations in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary - both the ethnic (Sudeten) and the more recent arrivals (as part of the long-term plan for the domination of Eastern Europe) - should to be transferred to Germany, but despite an undertaking that these would be effected in an orderly and humane manner, the expulsions were carried out in a ruthless and often brutal manner. Land was seized with farms and houses expropriated; the occupants placed into camps prior to mass expulsion from the country. Many of these were labor camps already occupied by Jews who had survived the concentration camps, where they were equally unwelcome. Further cleansing was carried out in Romania and Yugoslavia, and by 1950, an estimated 11.5 million German people had been removed from Eastern Europe with up to three million dead. The number of ethnic Germans killed during the ‘cleansing’ period is suggested at 500,000, but in 1958, Statistisches Bundesamt (the Federal Statistical Office of Germany) published a report which gave the figure of 1.6 million relating to expulsion-related population losses in Poland alone. Further investigation may in due course provide a more accurate figure to avoid the accusation of sensationalism.