- Summary
- "This book 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023
©2023
- Contents
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Introduction: A response delayed / Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jelena Subotić, and Susan Welch
Can
or should
there be a political science of the Holocaust? / Charles King
Histories in motion : the Holocaust, social science research, and the historian / Jan Burzlaff
Part I: Sites of violence. Pogrom violence and visibility during the Kristallnacht pogrom / Daniel Solomon ; Historical legacies and Jewish survival strategies during the Holocaust / Eugene Finkel ; A common history of violence? : the pogroms of summer 1941 in comparative perspective / Jeffrey S. Kopstein ; Mass violence without mass politics : political culture and the Holocaust in Lithuania / Benjamin Mishkin
Part II: New uses for old data on antisemitism and the Holocaust. Territorial loss and xenophobia in the Weimar Republic : evidence from Jewish bogeymen in children's stories / Robert Braun ; Defeating typhus in the Warsaw ghetto : a scientific look at historical sources / Lewi Stone and Stephan Lehnstaedt ; Holocaust survival among immigrant Jews in the Netherlands : a life course approach / Peter Tammes and Andrew J. Simpkin ; Normalizing violence : how Catholic bishops facilitated Vichy's violence against Jews / Aliza Luft ; Using the Yad Vashem transport database to examine gender and selection during the Holocaust / Susan Welch ; Addressing the missing voices in Holocaust testimony / Rachel L. Einwohner
Part III: Legacies of the Holocaust. Remembering past atrocities : good or bad for attitudes toward minorities? / Volha Charnysh ; Legitimating myths and the Holocaust in postsocialist states / Zvi Gitelman ; The international relations of Holocaust memory / Jelena Subotić
Conclusion: From the micro to the macro / Daniel Ziblatt.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kopstein, Jeffrey, editor.
Subotic, Jelena, editor.
Welch, Susan, editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A response delayed / Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jelena Subotić, and Susan Welch -- Can--or should--there be a political science of the Holocaust? / Charles King -- Histories in motion : the Holocaust, social science research, and the historian / Jan Burzlaff -- Part I: Sites of violence. Pogrom violence and visibility during the Kristallnacht pogrom / Daniel Solomon ; Historical legacies and Jewish survival strategies during the Holocaust / Eugene Finkel ; A common history of violence? : the pogroms of summer 1941 in comparative perspective / Jeffrey S. Kopstein ; Mass violence without mass politics : political culture and the Holocaust in Lithuania / Benjamin Mishkin -- Part II: New uses for old data on antisemitism and the Holocaust. Territorial loss and xenophobia in the Weimar Republic : evidence from Jewish bogeymen in children's stories / Robert Braun ; Defeating typhus in the Warsaw ghetto : a scientific look at historical sources / Lewi Stone and Stephan Lehnstaedt ; Holocaust survival among immigrant Jews in the Netherlands : a life course approach / Peter Tammes and Andrew J. Simpkin ; Normalizing violence : how Catholic bishops facilitated Vichy's violence against Jews / Aliza Luft ; Using the Yad Vashem transport database to examine gender and selection during the Holocaust / Susan Welch ; Addressing the missing voices in Holocaust testimony / Rachel L. Einwohner -- Part III: Legacies of the Holocaust. Remembering past atrocities : good or bad for attitudes toward minorities? / Volha Charnysh ; Legitimating myths and the Holocaust in postsocialist states / Zvi Gitelman ; The international relations of Holocaust memory / Jelena Subotić -- Conclusion: From the micro to the macro / Daniel Ziblatt.
