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- One particularly strong indication of the upsurge in interest in teaching the Holocaust is the extremely rapid growth in popularity of social studies curriculum called “Facing History and Ourselves,” developed by a nonprofit educational foundation of the same name in Brookline, Massachusetts. Although this curriculum gives much attention to the so‐called “Armenian genocide,” its primary focus is on the Holocaust and the issues it raises, e.g., prejudice, stereotyping, racism, etc.
- 1982 . JESNA Holocaust Curriculum Project . Pedagogic Reporter , 33 ( 2 ) March : 2 See, for example, the goals of the
- It is interesting to note that until relatively recently this approach, which I have termed apologetic, typified the approach utilized in Israel, in schools and in other settings where the Holocaust was taught there. Perhaps this is because the potential “crisis of identification” which I have described was perceived to represent a more serious danger, since Israel represents the Jewish people's control over its own destiny, the very antithesis of Jewish powerlessness during the Holocaust period. Interestingly, the trend now is to eschew apologetics and deal with Jewish resistance along the lines of the approach which I describe below.
- Berkovits , Eliezer . 1973 . Faith After the Holocaust New York A useful reference for teachers (and perhaps advanced senior students as well) in this regard is S. Katz, “Jewish Faith After the Holocaust: Four Approaches,” Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1975–6 Yearbook, pp. 92–105. My students, who are senior students, have responded particularly favorably to selections which I have given them to read from
- Wasserstein , B. 1979 . Britain and the Jews of Europe: 1939–1945 New York A recent and useful contribution to the literature on the subject of rescue is David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews, New York, 1984. It should be read in conjunction with
- Useful material bearing on this subject includes I. Rosenbaum, Holocaust and Halakhah, New York, 1976; E. Berkovits, With God in Hell, New York, 1979; Y. Eliach, ed., Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust, New York, 1982; as well as the works of M. Prager (Mark), e.g., Sparks of Glory (transl. of Nizozei Gevurah), New York, 1974.