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Record Nr.

UNISA996418944403316

Autore

Messina Adele Valeria

Titolo

American Sociology and Holocaust Studies : The Alleged Silence and the Creation of the Sociological Delay / / Adele Valeria Messina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-61811-548-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Perspectives in Jewish Intellectual Life

Disciplina

940.5318072073

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography

Sociologists - Attitudes

National socialism and sociology

Genocide - Sociological aspects

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Sociological Thinking about the Holocaust in the Postwar Years, 1945-1960s -- 2. The Destruction of the Jews in a Sociological Perspective during the 1970s -- 3. Toward a Sociology of Genocide, 1980-1989 -- 4. The Problem of the Holocaust after 1989 -- Conclusions: The Alleged Delay -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Filled with new elements that challenge common scholarly theses, this book acquaints the reader with the "Jewish problem" of sociology and provides what this academic discipline urgently needs: a one-volume history of the Sociology of the Holocaust. The story of why and how sociologists as well as the schools of sociological thought came to confront the Holocaust has never been entirely told. The volume offers original insights on the nature of American sociology with implications for the post-Holocaust sociology development.