Description
Book Synopsis Increasingly, German Studies programs include courses on the Holocaust, but suitable course materials are often difficult to find. Teachers in higher education will therefore very much welcome this volume that examines and reflects both the practical and theoretical aspects of teaching about the Holocaust. Though designed primarily by and for North American Germanists and German Studies specialists, this book will prove no less useful for teachers in other countries and associated disciplines. It presents and describes successful Holocaust-related courses that have been developed and taught at U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities, demonstrating the depth, breadth, and variety of such offerings, while remaining mindful of the instructor's special moral responsibilities. Reflecting as it does, the innovative Holocaust pedagogy in North American German and German Studies, this collection serves the needs of educators who wish to revise or update their existing Holocaust courses and of those who are seeking guidance, ideas, and resources to enable them to develop their first Holocaust course or unit.
Trade Review "Teaching the Holocaust has become and urgent issue in liberal arts education ... [and] the editors of [this book] assumed this responsibility with dedication, steadfastness, and courage ... The construciton of the book offers a variety of models useful to instructors from all fields of humanities and social sciences ... The essays [are] fascinating. The authors share clearly and succintly ... and with remarkable objectivity and openess, their experiences ... The editors should be commended for the clear and comprehensible introduction ... as well as the meticulous bibliographies ... This book fulfills the promise in its title: it is a guide that shows a way to understand and communicate better the darkness of the Shoah." · Monatshefte
"The volumes proves an immensely useful overview of different means and approaches, different assumptions and conclusions, from a broad range of highly articulate and qualified scholars ... all pieces are fully and impeccably documented." · Scott Denham
Table of Contents Chapter 1. The Holocaust through Literature and Film
D. Scrase
Chapter 2. The Well-Utilized Survivor
S. E. Cernyak-Spatz
Chapter 3. Victims and Perpetrators: The Many Voices of the Holocaust
T. Freeman
Chapter 4. Designing Within and Around Limits: The Holocaust, Madonna, and Me
L. Feldman
Chapter 5. The Difficulty of Breaking the Silence: Teaching the Holocaust in a Program of German Literature and Culture
D. C. G. Lorenz
Chapter 6. Four Genres and One Question: Why?
S. R. Cerf
Chapter 7. The Holocaust and Resistance in German Literature
G. Brude-Firnau
Chapter 8. Inserting a Short Course on the Holocaust into German Offerings at a Small Liberal Arts College
N. M. Decker
Chapter 9. Teaching the Shoah in Context: A Course on Jewish German Relations
K. Remmler
Chapter 10. German Myths and Jewish Traumas: Teaching Postwar Cultural History 1945-1995
F. Strzelczyk
Chapter 11. Witness Grete Weil: An Intensive Summer Graduate Seminar
L. Nussbaum
Chapter 12. A Graduate Seminar on the Holocaust and the Third Reich as Reflected in Postwar German Literature
N. A. Lauckner
Chapter 13. The Nazi Period, the Holocaust, and German-Jewish Issues as Integral Subjects in a German Language Course
K. Doerr
Chapter 14. The Holocaust in an Introductory German Literature Course: Problematic Responses as a Catalyst for Curricular Change
M. Jokiniemi
Chapter 15. Beyond Cultural Pedagogy
W. C. Donahue
Chapter 16. The Teaching (and Not Teaching) of the Disaster
L. Morris
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
