Teaching about the Holocaust: Essays by College and University Teachers, Samuel Totten, Paul R. Bartrop, and Steven Leonard Jacobs, eds. (Westport, CT; and London: Praeger, 2004), xviii + 239 pp., 59.95
In his classic series of Trevelyan Lectures delivered in 1961 and subsequently published as What Is History? E. H. Carr exhorted his listeners to study the historian to understand the history. Carr’s admonition holds for the study of the Holocaust. The essays in this volume open a window onto the me...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 526-529 |
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| Summary: | In his classic series of Trevelyan Lectures delivered in 1961 and subsequently published as What Is History? E. H. Carr exhorted his listeners to study the historian to understand the history. Carr’s admonition holds for the study of the Holocaust. The essays in this volume open a window onto the men and women engaged in the critical work of Holocaust education. Influenced by Carol Rittner and John Roth’s From the Unthinkable to the Unavoidable, which featured the reflections of largely first-generation pioneers in Holocaust study, the editors of this work sought similar personal narratives from “college and university educators who have been confronting the enormous responsibility of teaching . . . about the Holocaust” (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcl033 |