Bøger af Jack Nusan Porter

ENGJewish Partisans of the Soviet Union is a classic compilation of original Russian and Jewish sources on the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe. It is rooted in decades of research motivated by a desire to set the record straight on Jewish participation in resistance movements, a phenomenon often overlooked when not actively concealed. As the son of Jewish partisans in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, Jack Porter presents here the result of his decades-long research: first-hand accounts and interviews with survivors and partisans, as well as some of their original work, and a seminal English translation of Partisan Brotherhood, a historical document gathered by Russian-Jewish intellectuals in 1948 at the height of anti-Semitic hysteria, written mainly by non-Jewish Soviet partisan commanders recounting the deeds of the Jewish fighters in their units.RUSВ основе этой книги лежат десятилетия исследований, вызванных к жизни желанием внести ясность в вопрос об участии евреев в партизанском движении. Будучи сыном еврейских партизан, Джек Портер собрал в своем исследовании рассказы из первых рук, интервью с выжившими и с партизанами, а также мемуарные публикации и выдержки из «Партизанской дружбы» - исторического документа, составленного российско-еврейской интеллигенцией в 1948 году в разгар антисемитской истерии и написанного в основном нееврейскими сов

Dr. Porter was a pioneer in the study of what is now known as the "sexual/ gender aspects of genocide," first using the term "sexual" in his definition of genocide as far back as the late 1970s in his classic book "Genocide and Human Rights" (ISBN: 0-8191-2290-4) and expanded in his 2006 book "The Genocidal Mind: Sociological and Sexual Perspectives" (ISBN: 978-0-7618-3400-7). The term "sexual politics" has momentous relevance today given the times: gay marriages, DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), "don't tell, don't ask," and the continued harassment and persecution of homosexuals, lesbians, and transsexuals in our society. What happened in Nazi Germany seventy or more years ago can help us understand what is happening in America today.

This book is a collection of personal essays that confront both history and Holocaust. It divides into three parts: The first confront's Porter's role as a writer and outsider and covers in chronological order his evolution from high school (seen through the hindsight of a class reunion) to the making of a sociologist at UW-Milwaukee and Northwestern to the death of his father Irving Porter; the second part deals with Jewish women in the resistance,"therapy" for survivors, Ukrainian-Jewish relations, neo-Nazis in the USA, and the affirmation of live after the Shoah. It concludes with 100 pages of all his writings from 1958-2014, his speeches, and his vitae, useful for scholars and teachers."

Dr. Jack Porter, a former Milwaukeean, now living in Newtonville, Mass, continues his memoirs with these two parts of the trilogy. Future memoirs will include How to be a Rabbi in Ten Easy Lessons, Twelve Screen Treatments including 'Key West Rabbi' and 'Partisans'.," and If Only You Could Bottle it: Memoirs of a Radical Son.

Jack Nusan Porter's writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War. He describes the struggle against war, racism, and poverty, as well as the radical groups involved. This collection of essays combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics to understand our present situation.

Sociology was in serious trouble in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Harvard University was down to only 67 students majoring in sociology in 1992. Yale's department faced a 40% cut in faculty and near extinction. In the last decade, Washington University (St. Louis, MO) and the University of Rochester shut down their departments. George Washington University (Washington, D.C.) regrouped in order to stave off further cuts. However, in the past decade, sociology has surged back and become more important than ever to policy makers and pundits. Why?Is Sociology Dead? covers three areas of Dr. Jack Nusan Porter's work: the role of sociological theory in society; the image of sociology in the media; and what he calls the "creative praxis," (the application of social theory to real life problems). The theoretical section of the book covers such areas as conflict theory; situational and small group theory; and what could be termed as post-9/11 approaches as chaos, postmodern, and rational choice theory that address the questions of random murder, terrorism, and genocide. The second section deals with an overview of sociology's image in the U.S. media and covers in detail how sociology was treated in radical textbooks in the 1960s. The final section applies new theoretical approaches to a host of contemporary political, business, technological, and urban issues.

The Genocidal Mind offers unique and under-explored analysis of the Holocaust and the phenomenon of 20th century genocide within a sociological framework.