Synopses & Reviews
In the years following the demise of the Third Reich, the task of Holocaust education fell predominantly to survivors. Now, as the generation of survivors passes along this responsibility, growing numbers of individuals and institutions are committed to Holocaust education.
Lessons and Legacies II focuses on matters unique to Holocaust education. Consisting of selected papers delivered at the second Lessons and Legacies conference in 1992, the volume is organized in three sections: Issues, Resources, and Applications. Taken individually, the essays speak directly to specific concerns surrounding Holocaust education: the growing maturity of the Holocaust as a field of study; the difficult issue of explaining the perpetrators' behavior; the process of decision-making within Jewish communities during the Holocaust; issues of gender and family; the scope and content of survivor literature; and the structure of courses and the implications of being an educator in the field. Taken as a whole, the volume speaks to the reciprocal and mutually reinforcing relationship between teaching and scholarship in this important field.
Synopsis
Lessons and Legacies II focuses on matters unique to Holocaust education. Consisting of selected papers delivered at the second Lessons and Legacies conference in 1992, the volume is organized in three sections: Issues, Resources, and Applications.
About the Author
Donald G. Schilling is professor of history at Denison Univeristy, where he regularly teaches a seminar on the Holocaust.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Theodore Zev Weiss
Foreword
Donald G. Schilling
Introduction
I. Issues
Michael R. Marrus
Good History and Teaching the Holocaust
Gerhard L. Weinberg
The Holocaust and World War II: A Dilemma in Teaching
Christopher R. Browning
Ordinary Germans or Ordinary Men? Another Look at the Perpetrators
Allan Fenigstein
Reconceptualizing the Psychology of the Perpetrators
Dina Porat
Jewish Decision-Making during the Holocaust
II. Resources
Judith Tydor Baumel
Gender and Family Studies of the Holocaust: A Historiographical Overview
Dan Laor
The Legacy of the Survivors: Holocaust Literature in Israel
Lawrence Baron
Teaching about the New Psychosocial Research on Rescuers in Holocaust Courses
Judith E. Doneson
Why Film?
III. Applications
Marshall Lee and Michael Steele
The Affective Approach in the Interdisciplinary Holocaust Classroom
Reuven Hammer
Commemorations and the Holocaust
Notes
Notes on Contributors