Helmut Schreier/Matthias Heyl (Eds.)
Never again!
The Holocaust´s Challenge for Educators
216 pages, 17 x 24 cm, EUR 24,60, ISBN 3-89622-018-7

”Never again! The Holocaust’s Challenge for Educators” is a collection of essays and reports by international scholars and educationists.
The first part, PREMISES, deals with ethical dilemmas, psycho-analytical attempts at understanding, and the historical and philosophical questions of the Holocaust’s uniqueness. Standing out among these recent texts is an essay by Theodor W. Adorno, Education after Auschwitz, from 1966. Influential among European educators, this text is published here for the first time in English.
In the second part, APPROACHES, various ways to teach about the Holocaust are reported in their respective national contexts: The field trips by Israeli youth to the death-camps, America’s “Facing History and Ourselves” (along with a Canadian critique of the Holocaust’s “Americanization”), a Dutch view of reconstructing identity, and a German perspective on facing that nation’s dilemma in education.
 The 16 concepts and views expressed in this collection represent the Holocaust-discourse among international educators, they are at its cutting edge during the late nineties.

Content

Premises

  • Theodor W. Adorno: Education after Auschwitz
  • Helmut Peukert: Unconditional Responsibility for the Other: The Holocaust and the Thinking of Emmanuel Levinas    
  • Martin Wangh: Healing and Education in Post-Holocaust Context
  • Emanuel Hurwitz: About the Curious Guilt of the Slain
  • Dierk Juelich: Experienced and Inherited Trauma
  • Wolfgang Kraushaar: Auschwitz - Breach of Civiliza-tion Singularity versus Universality of the Destruction of the Jews
  • Alan Milchman / Alan Rosenberg: The Holocaust: The Question of Uniqueness
  • Samuel Totten / William S. Parsons: Genocide in the Twentieth Century

Approaches

  • Yaacov Lozowick: Jewish Memory and the Shoah
  • Jackie Feldman: “Above the Death-pits and With the Flag of Israel Waving on High” - The Structure and Meaning of Israeli Youth Missions to Poland of the Shoah
  • Mark Weitzman: Announcing the Future, Facing the Past
  • Mary Johnson: Facing History and Ourselves: A Concept of Active Memory
  • Franklin Bialystok: Perspectives on the Americanization of the Holocaust
  • Matthias Heyl: Holocaust Education in (West-)Germany - Now and Then
  • Ido B. H. Abram: Education after Auschwitz in a Multicultural Society
  • Helmut Schreier: The Holocaust: Consequences for Education - A German Perspective


Editors:
Helmut Schreier is Professor for Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Matthias Heyl is a historian and educator, working in the field of Holocaust Education.

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