Sociology and the Holocaust: a discipline grapples with history

States that the conventional wisdom in the interdisciplinary field of Holocaust studies is that sociologists have neglected this subject matter. However there has been substantial sociological work on the Holocaust, although it has often been ignored or neglected, including in the discipline of sociology itself. This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of the vast historical and social science literature from an explicitly sociological perspective. It draws upon sociology's "theoretical toolkit" to understand these events and the ongoing legacy of the Holocaust sociologically