Ronnie Landau

Studying the Holocaust (eBook, ePUB)

Issues, readings and documents

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sensitive and appropriate teaching of the Holocaust is essential at all levels of formal and informal education. The Holocaust Education Reader by Ronnie Landau provides an educational companion for all those teaching this subject.
The book is designed to challenge student use of primary resources and encourage extra-disciplinary analysis.
This authoritative guide contains:
* a guide to major dilemmas confronting teachers
* documentary and literary selected readings
* suggested teaching activities
* an analysis of 'genocide' in the modern era
* a chronology of the period
* selected bibliography, list of principal characters and a glossary of important terms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134719631
• Artikelnr.: 42669872

Autorenporträt

Ronnie S. Landau is Director of the British Holocaust Education Project and Member of Faculty at Leo Baeck College, London, where he lectures in modern Jewish history. Former Head of Humanities at the City Literary Institute, he is author of The Nazi Holocaust (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Holocaust as educational theme, The continuing relevance
of the Holocaust, The Holocaust as 'human' event, The unique and the
universal, The central role of questions, Educational conception and
approach PART I Readings and exercises 1 The Holocaust-The futility of
definition? 2 Obedience to authority 3 Jewish powerlessness and
choicelessness 4 The moral responsibility of 'ordinary' Germans, The case
against Hans Brenner, The case against Dr Ernst Schmid 5 Six million
accusers 6 Euphemisms of death: Interpreting a primary source document on
the Holocaust 7 Yossel Rakover's appeal to God (an excerpt) 8 The power of
indifference PART II Selected key documents 1 'The Racists' Ten
Commandments' 2 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 3 The Balfour
Declaration 4 Adolf Hitler: A letter on the Jewish Question 5 The 25-point
programme of the National-Socialist German Workers' Party 6 The Nuremberg
Laws 7 An eyewitness response to Kristallnacht 8 German Foreign Ministry
memorandum on 'The Jewish Question' 9 Hitler threatens Jews with
annihilation 10 Reinhard Heydrich's Order 11 The Warsaw Ghetto: The Jewish
response 12 The Wannsee Conference 13 The Einsatzgruppen death squads: An
eyewitness account 14 Appeal to the outside world 15 Inside the mind of a
perpetrator A letter from the Russian 'Front' The diary of SS Dr Johann
Paul Kremer Heinrich Himmler, Head of the SS Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of
Auschwitz 16 The victims: Defiant responses 17 Spiritual resistance 18 The
psychology of the victim 19 Jewish disbelief at reports of mass
annihilation PART III Genocide in the modern era 1 Tasmanian aborigines,
1803-36 2 Armenians, 1915-16 3 Kulaks, 1929-33 4 Roma (Gypsies), 1941-45 5
Bengalis, 1971 6 Hutu of Burundi, 1972 7 Ache Indians, 1968-72 8
Cambodians, 1975-79 9 East Timor islanders, 1975-present Genocide by
another name? PART IV Questions, themes and reading lists 1 Historical
background and context 2 The Holocaust: A history 3 Themes, issues and
protagonists PART V History of the Holocaust: A chronological outline
(1933-45) PART VI Reference sections