Politics, Violence, Memory

The New Social Science of the Holocaust

Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jelena Subotić, Susan Welch, Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Susan Welch, Jelena Subotić

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781501766756, 9781501766749
• eBook ISBN: 9781501766770
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Holocaust History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• 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
• Part II New Uses for Old Data on Antisemitism and the Holocaust
• Part III Legacies of the Holocaust
• Notes
• Notes on Contributors
• Index