Contents
PART 1 RECONSIDERING HOLOCAUST STUDY....................3
Introduction: Why the Holocaust? Why Sociology? Why Now? Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf....................11
PART 2 JEWISH IDENTITIES IN THE DIASPORA....................39
Post-memory and Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity Narratives Debra Renee Kaufman....................55
The Holocaust, Orthodox Jewry, and the American Jewish Community Chaim I. Waxman....................67
Traveling Jews, Creating Memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the Diaspora Business Caryn Aviv and David Shneer....................84
Trauma Stories, Identity Work, and the Politics of Recognition Arlene Stein....................92
PART 3 MEMORY, MEMOIRS, AND POST-MEMORY....................115
In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd: Questions of Comparison and Generalizability in Holocaust Memoirs Judith M. Gerson....................134
Collective Memory and Cultural Politics: Narrating and Commemorating the Rescue of Jewish Children by Belgian Convents during the Holocaust Suzanne Vromen....................154
Holocaust Testimony: Producing Post-memories, Producing Identities Diane L. Wolf....................176
Survivor Testimonies, Holocaust Memoirs: Violence in Latin America Irina Carlota Silber....................185
PART 4 IMMIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICES....................197
In the Land of Milk and Cows: Rural German Jewish Refugees and Post-Holocaust Adaptation Rhonda F. Levine....................215
Post-Holocaust Jewish Migration: From Refugees to Transnationals Steven J. Gold....................236
"On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents": Reimagining Soviet Jewish Refugee Identities in the United States Kathie Friedman....................260
The Paradigmatic Status of Jewish Immigration Richard Alba....................266
PART 5 COLLECTIVE ACTION, COLLECTIVE GUILT, COLLECTIVE MEMORY....................277
Availability, Proximity, and Identity in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Adding a Sociological Lens to Studies of Jewish Resistance Rachel L. Einwohner....................291
The Agonies of Defeat: "Other Germanies" and the Problem of Collective Guilt Jeffrey K. Olick....................313
The Cosmopolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider....................331
The Sociology of Knowledge and the Holocaust: A Critique Martin Oppenheimer....................337
Violence, Representation, and the Nation Leela Fernandes....................345
Bibliography....................385
Contributors....................391
Sociology Confronts the Holocaust
