Teaching the Holocaust in the Jewish School

Abstract

The Holocaust theme has become in our days a central component of Jewish consciousness. Since the Six-Day War there has been evidence of a readiness to discuss, teach and experience this deep and open wound in our collective Jewish psyche. There are undoubtedly many reasons that account for the sudden, if belated, upsurge in Holocaust awareness. Whatever the reasons, it is an incontestable fact that Holocaust awareness has become a part of the contemporary Jew's view of himself, his innermost feelings and, indeed, his identity.