"Can I Alter the Statement?" – Considering Holocaust Education as a Catalyst for Civic Education in Jewish Day Schools. Issue 3 (3rd July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Katz, Meredith
• Is Part Of: Journal of Jewish education. Volume 88:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 231
• Page End: 253
• Publication Date: 2022-07-03
• Subjects: Civic education -- Day schools -- Holocaust education; Jews -- Education -- Periodicals; Jews -- Education -- United States -- Periodicals; Jewish religious education -- Periodicals; 370.89924073
• DOI: 10.1080/15244113.2022.2084476
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1524-4113

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study investigates ideas about the messages of the Holocaust understood by middle school students in Jewish day schools. Findings explore the conceptualizations students have of the Holocaust as a particular Jewish experience, and in what ways they apply its lessons both particularly and universally. Students in two North American Jewish day schools participated in a fall 2017 Holocaust education unit. Most were able to connect to the particular history of the Holocaust and to engage with universal messages. Their responses suggest a need and opportunity to frame Holocaust education more explicitly in the context of democratic civic education.