Jewish Perspective Archives - Teach the Shoah https://www.teachtheshoah.org/tag/jewishperspective/ Teaching the Holocaust through Story Wed, 17 May 2023 03:46:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-TTS-Stacked-Square-32x32.png Jewish Perspective Archives - Teach the Shoah https://www.teachtheshoah.org/tag/jewishperspective/ 32 32 165884252 The Devil’s Confession https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2023/04/25/the-devils-confession/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 04:04:41 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=238188 Every survivor had a Holocaust of their own.” The world learned this from the testimony of survivors at the trial of Adolph Eichmann. This history is dramatically retold in The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, a new documentary by Yariv Mozer. [Redirects to L'Chaim Magazine]

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]]> 238188 Broken Glass, Preserved Memory https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2022/11/03/broken-glass-preserved-memory/ Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:22:00 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237720 Please don’t let them find out I’m Jewish. Please don’t let them find out I’m Jewish. It is November 10, 1938, and Margot Gunther (Jeremias) is riding the train to school. It’s an hour ride from her home in Hoffenheim, Germany to Heidelberg where her school is. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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]]> 237720 How to Teach Race Relations: Lessons from Holocaust Education https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2021/11/18/how-to-teach-race-relations-lessons-from-holocaust-education/ Fri, 19 Nov 2021 03:34:08 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237726 A group of 7th graders sit in a circle, white kids in the center, black and brown kids on the outside. They have been sorted by a “privilege” score assigned based on the color of their skin. The white students are trying to find a way to apologize to the students of color for the sins of their ancestors. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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]]> 237726 How to deal with antisemitism in our schools https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2021/10/25/how-to-deal-with-antisemitism-in-our-schools/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 03:36:05 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237729 “Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by ignorance, confusion, or ineptitude.” This statement was made by Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis in response to a disturbing incident that happened in Texas last week. In a teacher training in Southlake, a suburb outside Dallas, the curriculum director made a surprising statement: “Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing…that has other perspectives.” [redirects to the Times of Israel]

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]]> 237729 Stand at the Water Gate with Me https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2021/10/01/stand-at-the-water-gate-with-me/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 03:38:37 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237734 Our ancestors have always moved into the unknown. Their strength and stories help us as we move and grow. Consider a sunny Rosh Hashanah morning, 2500 years ago. Before the ruins of the First Temple, the men and women of Jerusalem gather at the Water Gate. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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]]> 237734 Teaching the Holocaust through Story https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2020/05/21/teaching-the-holocaust-through-story/ Fri, 22 May 2020 03:53:42 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237744 How do we even begin to understand the experience of the Holocaust? How do we give our students insight into something we can barely comprehend? [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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]]> 237744 Can we just color camels? Do we need to teach the hard stuff? https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2019/10/14/can-we-just-color-camels-do-we-need-to-teach-the-hard-stuff/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:46:17 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=238416 Can’t religious school be just about coloring camels from Torah portions? Do we have to teach the hard stuff? Many religious school education directors have fielded questions along these lines from concerned parents.
In classic Jewish fashion, the best answer is another question: How do we want our children to learn about the Holocaust? [redirects to the Times of Israel]

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]]> 238416 The fragile window is closing: Now WE must tell their stories https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2019/10/01/the-fragile-window-is-closing-now-we-must-tell-their-stories/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 07:51:29 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=238418 “Why do we need to teach this at all?” The Holocaust, she meant. Why do we need to teach the Holocaust in our religious school? [Redirects to the Times of Israel.]

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]]> 238418 Who will write our history? https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2019/01/29/who-will-write-our-history/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 08:43:32 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=238439 It distresses me how long it has taken for us to realize what Emanuel Ringelblum recognized in 1940 at the very inception of the Warsaw ghetto: unless we Jews tell our story, the story of the Holocaust will be told by the perpetrators. In the experiences of many of us, the story of the Holocaust has been dominated by Nazi propaganda and Nazi thinking. [redirects to the Times of Israel.]

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]]> 238439 Why I teach the Holocaust in Churches https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2018/11/14/why-i-teach-the-holocaust-in-churches/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 02:25:07 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=238446 Holocaust education needs to be different in a church than in a synagogue. Although we like to think of Christians and Jews as similar, there are fundamental differences in our background knowledge of and emotional connection to the basic elements of the story of the Holocaust. These fundamental differences change how the story is heard, and therefore, how the story should be told. [Redirects to the Times of Israel.]

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