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 Nazis, the central enemy. Taking a unique
approach in its examination of the devastating event, The
Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory fuses
history and sociology in its study of the Holocaust.
Berger's book illuminates the Holocaust as a social
construction. As historical scholarship on the Holocaust has
proliferated, perhaps no other tragedy or event has been as
thoroughly documented. Yet sociologists have paid less attention to
the Holocaust than historians and have been slower to fully
integrate the genocide into their corpus of disciplinary knowledge
and realize that this monumental tragedy affords opportunities to
examine issues that are central to main themes of sociological
inquiry.
Berger's aim is to counter sociologists who argue that the
genocide should be maintained as an area of study unto itself, as a
topic that should be segregated from conventional sociology courses
and general concerns of sociological inquiry. The author argues
that the issues raised by the Holocaust are central to social
science as well as historical studies.
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