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Berlin, Gail Ivy – College English, 2012
The encounter with literature of the Holocaust, saturated as it is with unfathomable grief, loss, terror, and death, presents its readers with difficulties rare in literatures not dealing with the extreme. Specifically, usual academic discourse lacks a register for addressing the intense emotions that Holocaust narratives or poetry may generate.…
Descriptors: World History, Altruism, Empathy, Poetry
Bernard-Donals, Michael – College English, 2012
On the third floor of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), in Washington, D.C., inside a glass case, lie thousands of shoes. Old and mismatched, moldering after sixty years, they are what remains of countless Jews who were told to disrobe and who were subsequently murdered at Majdanek, Poland, during the final years of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clothing, Figurative Language, Museums
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Teichman, Milton – College English, 1976
The best literature dealing with the Holocaust assumes the worthwhileness and preciousness of human life. (JH)
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, English Instruction, Higher Education, History
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Alexander, William – College English, 1978
Describes a course on the Nazi holocaust and Vietnam which encouraged students to feel a responsibility and right to assert themselves as critical citizens. (DD)
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Course Descriptions, English Instruction, Higher Education
Bernard-Donals, Michael – College English, 2004
The way in which the photographic images from the Holocaust explains about the working of the historical narratives and disturb the cultural memory is explored. The reading of these photographic images yields as a byproduct of knowledge, which is described as "forgetful memory".
Descriptors: Memory, Photography, European History, Personal Narratives
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Katz, Stephen B. – College English, 1992
Argues that the ethic of expediency in Western culture, which Aristotle first used systematically in the "Politics," was rhetorically embraced by the Nazi regime and combined with science and technology to form the "moral basis" of the holocaust. Suggests that the ethic of expediency enables deliberative rhetoric and gives…
Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Technical Writing