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The Universal and the Particular: Twin Foci in Holocaust Education
The Universal and the Particular: Twin Foci in Holocaust Education

Author(s): Michael Brown
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Education, Theology and Religion, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Universal; Particular; Holocaust Education; Christianity; Judaism; Israel; Poland; Germany; Canada; Nationalism; Theology;

Summary/Abstract: The Holocaust has pedagogical significance not only for Jews and for Israel, but perhaps even more so for Christians, Europeans, North Americans, and others. Its ramifications are especially salient with regard to theology and notions of nationality and ethnicity. Examples are given from historical and liturgical texts, as well as belles letters.

  • Issue Year: 8/2011
  • Issue No: 15-16
  • Page Range: 31-48
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English