1st Edition
The Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory Beyond Sociology
By Ronald J. Berger
Copyright 2012
294 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
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Routledge
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The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solution took the lives of approximately six million Jews, amounting to roughly 60 percent of European Jewry and a third of the world's Jewish population. Studying the Holocaust from a sociological perspective, Ronald J. Berger explains why the Final Solution happened to a particular people for particular reasons; why the Jews were, for the... Read more
Preface
1 Sociology and the Holocaust
2 Why the Jews?
3 The Rise of Nazism and the Evolution of Anti-Jewish Policy
4 The Social Structure of the Genocidal Regime
5 Jewish Responses to the Holocaust
6 Bystanders and Third-Party Resistance
7 European Collective Memories: Germany and Poland
8 Jewish Collective Memories: Israel and the United States
9 Genocide, Religion, and Social Solidarity
References
Index
Biography
Ronald J. Berger
