Politics, Violence, Memory : : The New Social Science of the Holocaust / / ed. by Susan Welch, Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jelena Subotić.

Politics, Violence, Memory highlights important new social scientific research on the Holocaust and initiates the integration of the Holocaust into mainstream social scientific research in a way that will be useful both for social scientists and historians. Until recently social scientists largely i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.) :; 4 maps, 8 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A Response Delayed
  • 1. Can—or Should—There Be a Political Science of the Holocaust?
  • 2. Histories in Motion: The Holocaust, Social Science Research, and the Historian
  • Part I SITES OF VIOLENCE
  • 3. Pogrom Violence and Visibility during the Kristallnacht Pogrom
  • 4. Historical Legacies and Jewish Survival Strategies during the Holocaust
  • 5. A Common History of Violence?: The Pogroms of Summer 1941 in Comparative Perspective
  • 6. Mass Violence without Mass Politics: Political Culture and the Holocaust in Lithuania
  • Part II NEW USES FOR OLD DATA ON ANTISEMITISM AND THE HOLOCAUST
  • 7. Territorial Loss and Xenophobia in the Weimar Republic: Evidence from Jewish Bogeymen in Children’s Stories
  • 8. Defeating Typhus in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Scientific Look at Historical Sources
  • 9. Holocaust Survival among Immigrant Jews in the Netherlands: A Life Course Approach
  • 10. Normalizing Violence: How Catholic Bishops Facilitated Vichy’s Violence against Jews
  • 11. Using the Yad Vashem Transport Database to Examine Gender and Selection during the Holocaust
  • 12. Addressing the Missing Voices in Holocaust Testimony
  • Part III LEGACIES OF THE HOLOCAUST
  • 13. Remembering Past Atrocities: Good or Bad for Attitudes toward Minorities?
  • 14. Legitimating Myths and the Holocaust in Postsocialist States
  • 15. The International Relations of Holocaust Memory
  • Conclusion: From the Micro to the Macro
  • Notes
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index