Working to Make a Difference: The Personal and Pedagogical Stories of Holocaust Educators Across the Globe

by Samuel Totten University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; author of Genocide by Attrition: Nuba (Editor), Alicja Bialecka (Contribution by), Sidney Bolkosky (Contribution by), Stephen Feinberg (Contribution by), Daniel Gaede (Contribution by)

Overview

This work is comprised of personal essays by some of the most noted Holocaust educators working in or with Holocaust museums, resource centers, or educational organizations across the globe. These distinguished contributors—from the United States, Great Britain, Israel, Canada, South Africa, Germany, and Poland—each delineate the genesis and evolution of their own thought and work in the field of Holocaust education. Their personal narratives discuss those individuals and/or scholarly works that have most influenced them, their aspirations, the frustrations they have faced, their perception of the field, their major contributions, their current endeavors, and the legacy they hope to leave upon the completion of their careers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739105078
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	12/17/2002
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.36(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Samuel Totten is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is editor ofTeaching Holocaust Literature(2002) and coeditor ofTeaching and Studying about the Holocaust(2001).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 United States
Chapter 3 Sidney Bolkosky
Chapter 4 Stephen Feinberg
Chapter 5 Marcia Littell
Chapter 6 Margot Stern Strom
Part 7 Israel
Chapter 8 Ephraim Kaye
Part 9 England
Chapter 10 Stephen Smith
Part 11 South Africa
Chapter 12 Marlene Silbert
Part 13 Poland
Chapter 14 Alicja Bialecka
Part 15 Germany
Chapter 16 Daniel Gaede

Editorial Reviews

The nine international educators who both tell their personal stories and detail their educational and pedagogical work remind us not only how much is presently being done and how well, but how much more needs to be done to translate the tragic events of the Holocaust into contemporary lessons. One can only hope that their stories and their work will inspire a new group of educators to continue their activities and teach future generations that the past need not be repeated.

Steven Leonard Jacobs