Politics, Violence, Memory

<P><B><I>Politics, Violence, Memory</I></B><B> 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.</B> Until recently social scientists largely ignored the Holocaust despite the centrality of these tragic events to many of their own concepts and theories. </P><P>In<I> Politics, Violence, Memory</I> 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. <I>Politics, Violence, Memory </I>brings new data to bear on these important concerns and shows how older data can b