Politics, Violence, Memory

The New Social Science of the Holocaust

Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jelena Subotić, Susan Welch (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2023
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6675-6 (ISBN)

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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 ignored the Holocaust despite the centrality of these tragic events to many of their own concepts and theories.

In Politics, Violence, Memory the editors bring together contributions to understanding the Holocaust from a variety of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, and public health. The chapters examine the sources and measurement of antisemitism; explanations for collaboration, rescue, and survival; competing accounts of neighbor-on-neighbor violence; and the legacies of the Holocaust in contemporary Europe. Politics, Violence, Memory brings new data to bear on these important concerns and shows how older data can be deployed in new ways to understand the "index case" of violence in the modern world.

Jeffrey S. Kopstein is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany 1945–1989, coeditor of Growing Apart?, and coauthor of Intimate Violence. Follow him on X @JeffreyKopstein. Jelena Subotić is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. She is the author of Hijacked Justice and Yellow Star, Red Star. Follow her on X @suboticjelena. Susan Welch was Professor of Political Science at The Pennsylvania State University. She was the coauthor of numerous books and author of several articles on Holocaust transports.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	4 Maps; 8 Charts
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	1-5017-6675-9 / 1501766759
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-6675-6 / 9781501766756
Zustand	Neuware