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From one generation to the next: A case study of Holocaust education in Illinois
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From one generation to the next: A case study of Holocaust education in Illinois.
Creator
Ellison, Jeffrey Alan., Florida Atlantic University, Pisapia, John, Berger, Alan L.
Abstract/Description
Currently a debate is underway concerning the current state of Holocaust education in the United States. Some scholars believe that its overall state is quite healthy, while others believe that it is in deep need of repair. To date, the literature about Holocaust education does not allow the debate to be answered because even the most basic analytic information is lacking: who teaches it, where it is taught, when it is taught, how it is taught, and why it is taught. For purposes of this study...
Show moreCurrently a debate is underway concerning the current state of Holocaust education in the United States. Some scholars believe that its overall state is quite healthy, while others believe that it is in deep need of repair. To date, the literature about Holocaust education does not allow the debate to be answered because even the most basic analytic information is lacking: who teaches it, where it is taught, when it is taught, how it is taught, and why it is taught. For purposes of this study a new Holocaust questionnaire was developed and sent to a random sampling of public high schools in Illinois. Two research questions were formulated. The first was to answer those aforementioned basic analytic questions. The second was to ascertain those factors that cause particular schools to emphasize Holocaust education more than other schools. Two major hypotheses were considered in relation to emphasis: school-related factors and teacher-related factors. Correlations and multiple regression analyses were performed in order to ascertain those factors most statistically associated with emphasis. Given the limitations of the model, most factors that related to emphasis were directly or indirectly related to teacher training and preparation in Holocaust education.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11979
Subject Headings
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Study and teaching--Illinois, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in textbooks
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Document (PDF)
Authorial Narration of Photographs: Postmemory In Erika Dreifus's Short Story Collection Quiet Americans
Title
Authorial Narration of Photographs: Postmemory In Erika Dreifus's Short Story Collection Quiet Americans.
Creator
Hall, Dennis Carmen, Berger, Alan L., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Postmemory is an interpretive theory that describes the relationship between the children of Holocaust survivors (Second-generation witnesses) and the trauma suffered by their parents. This thesis extends postmemory in two ways: first, postmemory is extended to include refugees who escaped the Holocaust. Thus, refugee families are situated in the three familial paradigms of Holocaust memory. Second, postmemory is extended to Third-generation witnesses (grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and...
Show morePostmemory is an interpretive theory that describes the relationship between the children of Holocaust survivors (Second-generation witnesses) and the trauma suffered by their parents. This thesis extends postmemory in two ways: first, postmemory is extended to include refugees who escaped the Holocaust. Thus, refugee families are situated in the three familial paradigms of Holocaust memory. Second, postmemory is extended to Third-generation witnesses (grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and refugees). Manifestations and representations of postmemory in Third-generation refugee families is demonstrated by authorial narration of photographs in third-generation refugee writer Erika Dreifus's short story collection Quiet Americans.
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Date Issued
2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004503, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004503
Subject Headings
Children of Holocaust survivors -- Family relationships, Children of Holocaust survivors -- Intellectual life, Dreifus, Erika -- Quiet Americans -- Criticism and interpretation, Holocaust , Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography, Holocaust , Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence, Holocaust , Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives, Holocaust , Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects, Photography -- Philosophy, Photography of families
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The Temple in Jerusalem Idealized and the Historic- Synagogue-Institution: A Study in Synagogue Purposes in an American Context
Title
The Temple in Jerusalem Idealized and the Historic- Synagogue-Institution: A Study in Synagogue Purposes in an American Context.
Creator
Brander, Kenneth, Berger, Alan L., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Lingustics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description
This dissertation sketched key structural-functional design characteristics of the Temple in Jerusalem as they emerge from archeological finds, academic scholarship, and rabbinic literary and legal traditions. It illustrated numerous embodied and functional parallels, with detailed descriptions of two successful American Synagogues drawing on the documents of social history, one built and led by the leadership of a lay community and the other dominated by a renowned Rabbi. Both synagogues...
Show moreThis dissertation sketched key structural-functional design characteristics of the Temple in Jerusalem as they emerge from archeological finds, academic scholarship, and rabbinic literary and legal traditions. It illustrated numerous embodied and functional parallels, with detailed descriptions of two successful American Synagogues drawing on the documents of social history, one built and led by the leadership of a lay community and the other dominated by a renowned Rabbi. Both synagogues seem to have inherited, continued, and celebrated venerable purposes that the rise of synagogues once took over from the ideals of the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem. Synagogues become successful institutions when they serve their communities, meeting self-perceived as well as pressing needs, through a willingness to accomplish multiple and diverse purposes.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004677, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004677
Format
Document (PDF)
From Gutenberg to Google: Five Jewish Diasporic Auto/Biographies
Title
From Gutenberg to Google: Five Jewish Diasporic Auto/Biographies.
Creator
Mendelow, Elaine Susan Barron, Berger, Alan L., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description
I have chosen to begin with an analysis of Megillat/Book of Esther because of its chronological placement as well as its status in Jewish tradition as the prototype of diasporic auto/biography. Briefly, it relates the story of a covertly Jewish queen who makes the decision to risk her life in order to save her people from genocide. (Professor Patricia K. Tull takes credit for the expression, the “Esther moment” to describe Esther’s choice to commit to her life-changing Jewish self...
Show moreI have chosen to begin with an analysis of Megillat/Book of Esther because of its chronological placement as well as its status in Jewish tradition as the prototype of diasporic auto/biography. Briefly, it relates the story of a covertly Jewish queen who makes the decision to risk her life in order to save her people from genocide. (Professor Patricia K. Tull takes credit for the expression, the “Esther moment” to describe Esther’s choice to commit to her life-changing Jewish self-identification, with all its inherent risks.) Determination and recognition of the danger she faces are reflected in Esther’s comment, “If I perish, I perish.” Postcolonial theory is a prism through which to view the ancient story and ultimately relate its elements, particularly “the Esther moment,” to the diasporic auto/biographical narratives included in the dissertation. Robin Cohen’s explanation of the concept of victim diaspora will be contrasted with the Kabbalistic interpretation of diaspora as the divinely orchestrated means to mend the world. The teachings of the Ari, 16th century Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria, as well as 20th and 21st century essays illuminate the discussion of the mystical myths and legends which offer a positive interpretation to several millennia of Jewish exile. A general overview of the genre of autobiography/life narrative includes 20th and 21st century theorists, i.e., Philippe Lejeune, Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson and others, who address specific issues related to modern technology’s role in creating life narratives. The journey extends from parchment scrolls through printing press book production to filmic representations. Though thousands of years separate Book of/Megillat Esther from the interviews, they are unified by significant commonalities. The dissertation will focus on some facsimile of an “Esther moment,” where a Jewish calling spoke to participants and altered the course of their lives. Accessible for viewing online, each narrative is informed by a review of the family’s earlier diasporic journey. Diasporic synergies for each narrative will demonstrate a confirmation of the hypothesis. Connecting to one’s Jewish roots can be viewed as reparation of a rupture, a cultural diasporic journey to reach, if not the physical point of origin, a spiritual homecoming.
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Date Issued
2018
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013122
Subject Headings
Jewish diaspora, Jewish autobiography, Narratives, Biography
Format
Document (PDF)
POSTMEMORIAL STRUCTURES: PORTRAITS OF SURVIVOR-FAMILY HOMES IN SECOND-GENERATION HOLOCAUST LITERATURE AND ORAL HISTORY
Title
POSTMEMORIAL STRUCTURES: PORTRAITS OF SURVIVOR-FAMILY HOMES IN SECOND-GENERATION HOLOCAUST LITERATURE AND ORAL HISTORY.
Creator
Wilson, Lucas Frederick William, Berger, Alan L., Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This study demonstrates the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, specifically focusing on how Holocaust survivors’ homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children “inhabited.” Based on my analysis of literature and oral histories of the second generation, my project employs the theory of postmemory to demonstrate how the spatial and temporal conditions of survivor-family homes, along with the domestic practices and objects contained...
Show moreThis study demonstrates the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, specifically focusing on how Holocaust survivors’ homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children “inhabited.” Based on my analysis of literature and oral histories of the second generation, my project employs the theory of postmemory to demonstrate how the spatial and temporal conditions of survivor-family homes, along with the domestic practices and objects contained therein, rendered these domestic milieus spaces of traumatic contagion. Postmemorial structures often functioned as spaces that afforded few illusions of familial permanency, thereby familiarizing survivors’ children with an intimate and pervading fear of external threat at a young age, which challenged or precluded feelings of parental protection and refuge within the domestic. I discuss the ways by which the second generation’s inherited perceptions of space—along with their inherited perception of matter and time— structured and structure their perceptions of their domestic lives. This study explores how, in turn, postmemorial structures shaped and shape the second generation’s inherited perceptions of space, matter, and time. As survivors’ traumas were registered in the very space of their homes, their homes functioned as material archives of their Holocaust pasts, creating domestic environments that commonly also wounded their children. In addition to survivors’ unspoken traumas, their spoken narratives of the Holocaust were also imbued in the space of postmemorial structures to such an extent that these homes became the very “framework” or “architecture” of their psychosocial lives. I argue that insofar as survivor-family homes were imaginatively transformed by survivors’ children into the sites of their parents’ traumas—whether they were concentration camps, ghettoes, places of hiding, etc.—their domestic spaces became central technologies that catalyzed and perpetuated the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma and embodied experience. I further argue that the ways by which they describe their home lives constitute indirect expressions of their belated relationships to the Holocaust.
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Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014013
Subject Headings
Holocaust survivors in literature, Children of Holocaust survivors, Generational trauma
Format
Document (PDF)