Spring 2022
Teacher Workshop
Maus: Using Graphic Novels to Teach about the Holocaust
Thursday, March 3, 4:30 PM
Virtually through Zoom
Free and open to middle and high school teachers
Required reading prior to workshop: Maus I
Join us for a free virtual workshop for middle and high school teachers on teaching Maus, an important and complex work of second-generation Holocaust literature. Recent news of a Tennessee school district’s controversial ban on Maus, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir, broke on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, eliciting a huge global outcry. Backlash to the ban has caused an enormous increase in book sales, donations, and educational efforts to grapple with the lessons of Maus, which tells the story of Spiegelman’s father, a Holocaust survivor, and their relationship as he comes to terms with his father’s experience and history itself. Graphic novels provide a unique and complex view of history. Barbara Mann, Chana Kekst Professor of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary, will lead the workshop. An expert on graphic novels that deal with the Holocaust since Maus paved the way in the 1980s, she has done important research on the value of using graphic novels and comics as a complement to other instructional tools in teaching the Holocaust. The workshop will be moderated by Colleen Tambuscio, pedagogical consultant to the HRC, award-winning teacher, and founder of the New Jersey Council of Holocaust Educators.
Presenters:
Professor Barbara Mann, professor of cultural studies and Hebrew Literature and the Chana Kekst Professor of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Her areas of expertise include Israeli and Jewish literature, cultural studies, modern poetry, critical theory and urban studies, literary modernism, and the fine arts. She is the author of A Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space and co-editor in-chief of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History.
Colleen Tambuscio, Founder and President, New Jersey Council of Holocaust Educators; Award-winning teacher and pedagogical consultant to the MTI for nearly twenty years.
Teacher Workshop
Jewish Childhood in Krakow
Wednesday, February 2, 4:30 PM
Virtually through Zoom
Historian, Dr. Joanna Silwa, discusses her new book, Jewish Childhood in Kraków. The book illuminates Holocaust history from the perspective of Jewish children’s experiences. A focus on children, the symbol of hope and future for the Jews, and a threat to the Nazi racial community, reveals what this age group witnessed and how the Holocaust affected young Jews.
Educators:
Dr. Joanna Sliwa, Historian and Archivist, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany; Veteran MTI instructor and faculty advisor; Author of Jewish Childhood in Kraków (Rutgers University Press, 2021).
Listen to the author’s brief introduction to the book - 2021 AJS Honors Its Authors - Joanna Sliwa
Colleen Tambuscio, Founder and President, New Jersey Council of Holocaust Educators; Award-winning teacher and pedagogical consultant to the MTI for nearly twenty years.
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