Aspects of Holocaust Education


The material on the following web page includes published essays by Sidney Bolkosky.  Included, too, is a copy of his curriculum vita.  The essays discuss a variety of subjects, often focusing on the use of Holocaust survivor testimonies and their significance in teaching or thinking about the Holocaust.
 


Documents

Of Parchment and Ink
An essay based on three survivor interviews discussing their attitudes toward religion after the Holocaust.

The Search for "Meaning" in the Holocaust
Discussion of the obsession to find some "meaning" in the Holocaust and the phenomenon of the "Americanization" of the Holocaust.

Voice/Vision
Discussion of the Voice/Vision project at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and the difficulties in listening to survivor interviews as well as the attendant problems of survivor discourse.

Vita
Curriculum Vita of Professor Sidney Bolkosky, the William E. Stirton Professor in the Social Sciences of the University of Michigan-Dearborn.