What Should be the Focus of Holocaust Education?

What Should be the Focus of Holocaust Education?

Esther Goldberg (www.holocaustmemoirdigest.org) holds a B.A. English Literature from Boston University. She is a founding member of The Generation After Committee of Edmonton Jewish Federation (Canada) and creator and editor of the three volume Holocaust Memoir...

What Should be the Focus of Holocaust Education?

Stories and Sages: New Directions in Holocaust Education

Rafi Cashman teaches at TanenbaumCHAT in Toronto and is a Wexner Fellow and Davidson Scholar in the doctoral program at the University of Toronto (OISE). In this article, he describes a curricular approach to teaching the Shoah using a combination of popular Holocaust...

What Should be the Focus of Holocaust Education?

Why I Teach the Shoah in Fifth Grade

Nance Adler lives in Seattle where she teaches in a variety of settings. She has a Master’s in Jewish Studies from JTS and was the recipient of the Maria Erlitz Prize for Teaching Excellence for 2009. In this article, she shares the principles she used to create a...

What Should be the Focus of Holocaust Education?

Issues in Holocaust Education

The following is an excerpt from Geoffrey Short and Carole Ann Reed’s book, Issues in Holocaust Education (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company). Reprinted with permission of the publisher. School Ethos The chief organisational issue we believe it necessary to...

What Should be the Focus of Holocaust Education?

Challenges of Commemoration

Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. The question of an appropriate Hebrew date for commemorating the Holocaust[i] was fiercely debated in the immediate aftermath of World...

What Should be the Focus of Holocaust Education?

New Challenges in Shoah Education

Dr. Efraim Zuroff (www.operationlastchance.org) is the chief Nazi-hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the founder and director of its Israel office. His most recent publication is Operation Last Chance; One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice (New...

What Should be the Focus of Holocaust Education?

The March of the Living: Where Is It Now?

Rona Sheramy is Executive Director of the Association for Jewish Studies. She received her PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. In this article, she examines the scope and impact of the March of the Living. When a member of the Israeli...

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