Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust
Published on 6. December 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
386 pages
978-0-299-32864-1 (ISBN)
Description
Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable suffering. Yet it has also been used to teach tolerance, empathy, resistance, and hope. Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for students. Using a vast array of source materials-from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews-the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts.
Each chapter provides pedagogical case studies for teaching content such as antisemitism, resistance and rescue, and the postwar lives of displaced persons. It will transform how students learn about the Holocaust and the circumstances surrounding it.
Each chapter provides pedagogical case studies for teaching content such as antisemitism, resistance and rescue, and the postwar lives of displaced persons. It will transform how students learn about the Holocaust and the circumstances surrounding it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
21 b&w illus
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
545 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-32864-1 (9780299328641)
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Persons
Laura Hilton is a professor of history at Muskingum University, where she has taught courses on the Holocaust for sixteen years. Avinoam Patt is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust.
Content
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Challenges and Necessity of Teaching the Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century 3
Laura J. Hilton and Avinoam Patt
Part One: Teaching Specific Content
Antisemitism: Understanding Its Meaning, Context, and History When Teaching the Holocaust 19
Jonathan Elukin
The Rise of Nazism 32
Mark E. Spicka
Legislation as a Path to Persecution 45
Russel Lemmons and Laura J. Hilton
Jewish Responses to Nazism in Vienna after the Anschluss 60
Ilana F. Offenberger
Understanding the Holocaust in the Context of World War II 81
Waitman Wade Beorn
Tools of the State: The Universe of Nazi Camps 95
Geoffrey P. Megargee
The Decentralized System of Nazi Ghettos in Eastern Europe 108
Martin Dean
Teaching about Collaboration: A Case Study Approach 127
Steven P. Remy
Resistance and Rescue 142
Laura J. Hilton
Life in the Aftermath: Jewish Displaced Persons 159
Avinoam Patt
Postwar Trials and Justice 178
Gabriel N. Finder
Part Two: Sources, Methods, and Media for Teaching the Holocaust
Teaching with Holocaust Diaries: Voices from the Chasm 199
Amy Simon
Strategies for Teaching the Holocaust with Memoirs 213
Jennifer Goss
Teaching Holocaust Literature in the Twenty-First Century 228
Victoria Aarons
The Grey Zone of Holocaust Education: Teaching with Film 243
Alan S. Marcus
Survivor Testimonies and Interviews 261
Margarete Myers Feinstein
Teaching with Photographs 275
Valerie HEbert
Teaching the Holocaust in Museums 294
Daniel Greene
Memorials, Monuments, and the Obligation of Memory 309
Stuart Abrams
Why Should We Teach the Holocaust Today and Tomorrow? 326
Robert Hadley
Contributors 341
Index 347
Introduction: The Challenges and Necessity of Teaching the Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century 3
Laura J. Hilton and Avinoam Patt
Part One: Teaching Specific Content
Antisemitism: Understanding Its Meaning, Context, and History When Teaching the Holocaust 19
Jonathan Elukin
The Rise of Nazism 32
Mark E. Spicka
Legislation as a Path to Persecution 45
Russel Lemmons and Laura J. Hilton
Jewish Responses to Nazism in Vienna after the Anschluss 60
Ilana F. Offenberger
Understanding the Holocaust in the Context of World War II 81
Waitman Wade Beorn
Tools of the State: The Universe of Nazi Camps 95
Geoffrey P. Megargee
The Decentralized System of Nazi Ghettos in Eastern Europe 108
Martin Dean
Teaching about Collaboration: A Case Study Approach 127
Steven P. Remy
Resistance and Rescue 142
Laura J. Hilton
Life in the Aftermath: Jewish Displaced Persons 159
Avinoam Patt
Postwar Trials and Justice 178
Gabriel N. Finder
Part Two: Sources, Methods, and Media for Teaching the Holocaust
Teaching with Holocaust Diaries: Voices from the Chasm 199
Amy Simon
Strategies for Teaching the Holocaust with Memoirs 213
Jennifer Goss
Teaching Holocaust Literature in the Twenty-First Century 228
Victoria Aarons
The Grey Zone of Holocaust Education: Teaching with Film 243
Alan S. Marcus
Survivor Testimonies and Interviews 261
Margarete Myers Feinstein
Teaching with Photographs 275
Valerie HEbert
Teaching the Holocaust in Museums 294
Daniel Greene
Memorials, Monuments, and the Obligation of Memory 309
Stuart Abrams
Why Should We Teach the Holocaust Today and Tomorrow? 326
Robert Hadley
Contributors 341
Index 347