Behind the Online Access. Notes and Papers of Everett C. Hughes: a Small Treasure for the Post‑Holocaust Sociology
Behind the Online Access. Notes and Papers of Everett C. Hughes: a Small Treasure for the Post‑Holocaust Sociology

Summary/Abstract: This article is an effort to improve our picture of the post‑war scholarly approach to Nazismand the Holocaust. Its aim is twofold: the work will deal with the specific topic of the Holocaust and with the relevance of the EBSCO database in unearthing less‑known writings about the Holocaust. It discusses how digital tools are suitable to investigate the changes of Holocaust history in the digital era; and to re‑write some features of the destruction of the Jews in Europe. It provides an overview of representative post‑Holocaust sociological texts, addressing how the handling of electronic tools and open access to full‑texts affects research productivity and changes consolidated schools of minds. A special attention will be given to Everett C. Hughes’s productivity (how many written works the scholar has produced), his visibility (how many times the name of the author appears in articles and reviews on EBSCO), and also his degree of appreciation in post‑Holocaust sociological works (calculated based on the number of citations that the academic environment has reserved for him). Hughes’s academic activity in the Chicago School will show us that the notion of a sociological delay in confronting the Holocaust is erroneous. In conclusion,a set of situations (political, academic, and cultural) constituted a tradition of missing scholarship in post‑Holocaust sociology. The delay was not due to a lack of scholarship,but rather to a reticence to support the work of scholars like Hughes. This contribution seeks to show how it is proper to readdress the problem of accessing archives.

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