American Sociology and Holocaust Studies: The Alleged Silence and the Creation of the Sociological Delay

Adele Valeria Messina

book: American Sociology and Holocaust Studies

Open Access Published by Academic Studies Press 2017

American Sociology and Holocaust Studies

The Alleged Silence and the Creation of the Sociological Delay

Adele Valeria Messina
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

In the series Perspectives in Jewish Intellectual Life

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618115485

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About this book

The first résumé in English of up-to-date research on post-Holocaust Sociology. A single volume full of relevant tips to help a wide audience rethink the genocide in sociological tools and investigate the history of the same Sociology.

Author / Editor information

Adele Valeria Messina is an Italian historian and a member of the Research Laboratory in History, Philosophy, and Politics at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Calabria University where she received her doctorate in Politics, Society and Culture in 2013. Her research interests include the Holocaust, Sociology, and anti-Semitism.

Reviews

Martin Oppenheimer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Rutgers University:
"Adele Valeria Messina’s American Sociology and Holocaust Studies is a detailed examination of a broad range of social science traditions and their relationship to the study of the Holocaust. With a close reading of virtually every scholar who has ever written anything pertinent to the subject Messina supports her thesis that the alleged delay on the part of American sociology to come to grips with the Holocaust is, in fact, mistaken. Using a variety of methodologies, she unearths many less-known figures who had, even in the years prior to World War II, presaged the events of the war years. She then utilizes numerous sources, including biographical, to illustrate some of the controversies about how the day-to-day machinery of the Holocaust actually worked. Her work is evidence of an enormous command of sociological and historical research. Messina examines the many debates concerning what led up to the Holocaust, in particular controversies about its German roots, and how the events of those years should be understood. In this context she provides useful surveys of the histories of Germany and Eastern European countries as these pertain to the treatment of minorities, especially the Jews. Dr. Messina has fully succeeded in giving us, in her words, ‘a one-volume history of the sociology of the Holocaust."

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	xi
Preface Open Access Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	xv
1. Sociological Thinking about the Holocaust in the Postwar Years, 1945–1960s Open Access Download PDF	1
2. The Destruction of the Jews in a Sociological Perspective during the 1970s Open Access Download PDF	122
3. Toward a Sociology of Genocide, 1980–1989 Open Access Download PDF	235
4. The Problem of the Holocaust after 1989 Open Access Download PDF	310
Conclusions: The Alleged Delay Open Access Download PDF	381
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	390
Index Open Access Download PDF	445

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 498

eBook

Published: February 7, 2017
ISBN: 9781618115485