Authors: Timothy Bennett, Jack Mann, Rochelle Millen
ISBN-13: 9780814755402, ISBN-10: 0814755402
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: September 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
Joseph O'Connor's debut novel "Cowboys & Indians" was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize. His other works include the novels "Desperados", "The Salesman" & "Irishowen", the story collection "True Believers", the stage play "Red Roses & Petrol", & an anthology comic journalism, "The Secret World of the Irish Male". His work has been widely translated & won many prizes, including the Macaulay Fellowship of the Irish Arts Council, the Miramax Ireland Screenwriting Prize, & the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award. He lives in Ireland.
The Holocaust stands as a focal event in modern Western history. With a vast array of literature, film, and historical work dedicated to the subject, it is increasingly difficult for educators to sift through the materials available and incorporate them into their curricula.
New Perspectives on the Holocaust offers guidance to those in the teaching professions confronting issues raised by the Holocaust. Authors, all actively involved in teaching about the Holocaust, reflect on a range of fundamental questions. Some offer guidance in selecting materials; others examine factors that determine the success or failure of Holocaust curricula; and still others essays examine questions of how much we can know about the Holocaust, investigating specifically the phenomenon of Holocaust denial. Providing a wealth of guidance for engaging students in a wide range of disciplines, from literature to history to geography to Jewish and Christian theology, and including contributions by such well-known scholars as Steven Katz, William Seidelman, Richard Breitman, John Pawlikowski, and Carole Fink, this volume is essential reading for all those in the teaching professions who grapple with the Holocaust.
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Foreword | ||
1 | Two Kinds of Uniqueness: The Universal Aspects of the Holocaust | 6 |
2 | Children in Auschwitz and the Gulag: Alternative Realities | 19 |
3 | Prelude to the Holocaust? The Murder of Walter Rathenau | 39 |
4 | Anti-Semitism in the Tradition of German Discourse: The Path to the Holocaust | 57 |
5 | Secrecy and the Final Solution | 70 |
6 | Searching for the Educational Imperative in Holocaust Curricula | 99 |
7 | Americanizing the Holocaust: Beyond the Limit of the Universal | 122 |
8 | Teaching the Holocaust: The Case for an Interdisciplinary Approach | 131 |
9 | Holocaust: Transcendent Case Study for the Social Sciences | 141 |
10 | Teaching the Holocaust through Literature | 147 |
11 | Witness to the Holocaust: History from a First-Hand Perspective | 159 |
12 | Teaching about International Responses to News of the Holocaust: The Columbus Dispatch Project at Ohio State University | 166 |
13 | Teaching the Holocaust through Landscape Study | 174 |
14 | Holocaust Denial Literature: Its Place in Teaching the Holocaust | 186 |
15 | The Dead End of Demonizing: Dealing with the Perpetrators in Teaching the Holocaust | 196 |
16 | Teaching the Holocaust and Making It Relevant for Non-Jewish Students | 212 |
17 | Teaching the Holocaust: Helping Students Confront Their Own Biases | 222 |
18 | "A Madwoman and a Scavenger": The Toll of Holocaust Survival in Cynthia Ozick's "Rosa" | 232 |
19 | Truth and Lamentation: Two Modes of Literary Response to the Holocaust | 242 |
20 | Pitfalls of Memory: Israeli-German Dialogues on the Shoah | 265 |
21 | Education after Auschwitz: Teaching the Holocaust in Germany | 275 |
22 | Post-Shoah Jewish Theology: Identifying the Categories | 287 |
23 | Christianity, Anti-Semitism, and Post-Holocaust Theology: Old Questions, Changing Paradigms | 294 |
24 | Power, Responsibility, and Abuse in Medicine: Lessons from Germany | 319 |
25 | The Holocaust: Its Impact on Christian Thought and Ethics | 344 |
Index | 363 |