Books
Peter’s latest work:
A Boy’s Journey: From Nazi-Occupied Prague to Freedom in America
Peter J. Stein is a witness to history, a keeper of Holocaust memories and a teller of its stories. He grew up the child of a Catholic mother and a Jewish father who was forced into slave labor and later disappeared. Nazi-occupied Prague was full of German soldiers everywhere and Peter’s loved ones vanished in mystery and secret. As a 12-year-old immigrant in America, he searched for a new identity that left his past behind.
But as Faulkner tells us, the past is never past. When, as a college professor, a group of students sought his help to challenge a Holocaust-denying teacher, Stein’s memories of his childhood resurfaced. A Boy’s Journey makes the past present and carries it into our future so that we do not forget.
Edited by Peter J. Stein and Rosalyn Benjamin Darling:
Journeys in Sociology: From First Encounters to Fulfilling Retirements
“Rosalyn Benjamin Darling and Peter J. Stein have done the field a service by assembling the biographical accounts of twenty sociologists in a volume entitled Journeys in Sociology: From First Encounters to Fulfilling Retirements. These essays are lively and informative, making a useful collection of first-hand testimonies of how the authors entered the field, their academic wanderings, and their reflections on exiting academia.
These readings admirably illustrate the many possibilities of how and why sociology is practiced and the varied passions that give rise to research, teaching programs, policy work, and especially social action. " — Frank F. Furstenberg
Also by Peter J. Stein:
Social Gerontology: Issues and Prospects, written with Elizabeth W. MarksonThe Essential Sociologist; written with Beth B. Hess and Susan FarrellSociology, five editions; written with Beth B. Hess and Elizabeth W. MarksonSingle Life: Unmarried Adults in Social ContextThe Family: Functions, Conflicts and Symbols; written with Judith Richman and Natalie HannonThe Marriage Game: Understanding Marital Decision-Making, two editions; written with Cathy Greenblat and Norman Washburne