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Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust

Marianne Hirsch

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Can the story be told? Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust. In their introduction, Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes argue that Semprun's question is as vital now, and as difficult and complex, as it was for the survivors in 1945.

The thirty-eight contributors to Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust come from various disciplines and address a wide range of issues pertinent to the teaching of a subject that many teachers and students feel is an essential part of a liberal arts education.

This volume offers approaches to such works as Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar, Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, Anne Frank's diary, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, Claude Lanzmann's Shoah, Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz, Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl, Dan Pagis's Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car, Art Spiegelman's Maus, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Elie Wiesel's Night, and Abraham Yehoshua's Mr. Mani.

To the challenge How do we transmit so hurtful an image of our own species without killing hope and breeding indifference? posed by Geoffrey Hartman in this volume, the editors respond, Only in the very human context of classroom interaction can we hope to avoid either false redemption or unending despair.

Pages: 512

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Modern Language Association of America

Release: January 01, 2004

ISBN: 0873523490

ISBN 13: 9780873523493

Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust

Marianne Hirsch

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Can the story be told? Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust. In their introduction, Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes argue that Semprun's question is as vital now, and as difficult and complex, as it was for the survivors in 1945.

The thirty-eight contributors to Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust come from various disciplines and address a wide range of issues pertinent to the teaching of a subject that many teachers and students feel is an essential part of a liberal arts education.

This volume offers approaches to such works as Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar, Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, Anne Frank's diary, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, Claude Lanzmann's Shoah, Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz, Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl, Dan Pagis's Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car, Art Spiegelman's Maus, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Elie Wiesel's Night, and Abraham Yehoshua's Mr. Mani.

To the challenge How do we transmit so hurtful an image of our own species without killing hope and breeding indifference? posed by Geoffrey Hartman in this volume, the editors respond, Only in the very human context of classroom interaction can we hope to avoid either false redemption or unending despair.

Pages: 512

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Modern Language Association of America

Release: January 01, 2004

ISBN: 0873523490

ISBN 13: 9780873523493

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