How they teach the Holocaust

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العنوان How they teach the Holocaust.
lds06 What Is the Use of Jewish History? Essays by Lucy S. Dawidowicz. Ed. by Neal Kozodoy. New York: Schocken, 1992
هذا جزء من Commentary 90,6 (1990) 25-32
الوصف Surveys 25 secondary-school Holocaust curricula produced in 12 states and New York City. They undertake to give students basic information and provide appropriate moral education. Criticizes most of the curricula in that they do not stress the centrality of premeditated mass murder as an instrument of policy and they omit the history of antisemitism, particularly its roots in Christian doctrine. Cites grammatical and factual errors which "reflect prevailing educational standards". Regarding moral lessons, the common pedagogic strategy is to generalize the terms of scapegoating, prejudice, and bigotry
analogies to the Nazi genocide are often imprecise and tendentious. Concludes that the primary lesson of the Holocaust is "Thou shalt not murder", yet teaching moral standards as incorporated in the Ten Commandments is seen as a violation of the separation between church and state. States that something is clearly wrong with the American system of education and standards of morality. Pp. 31-32 list the curricula examined. Two are commended as excellent (Michigan and New York State). (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Appeared also in her collection "What Is the Use of Jewish History?" (1992).
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