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Holocaust Education in America

Politics and Pedagogy, 1982-2025
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While Holocaust education is a staple of American schooling, it is rarely studied as a product of the political machine. We often focus on what happens in the classroom, yet the path to those lessons begins years earlier in state legislatures and governors' offices. This essential volume explores the development of Holocaust education in America from the early 1980s to the present. By shifting the focus from pedagogy to politics, this anthology analyzes the rise of two crucial state instruments: Holocaust education mandates and Holocaust education commissions. With contributions both from leading scholars and from those who have served on commissions or drafted mandate legislation, this collection investigates how twenty-seven states came to require Holocaust education and how seventeen states established bodies to oversee it. From states as disparate as Alabama and Michigan to the recent politicization of education in Florida, these case studies reveal how legislatures, departments of education, and the classroom are inextricably linked. This volume is a pathbreaking resource for scholars of Jewish studies, political scientists, and anyone interested in how our most sensitive history is institutionalized in our public schools.
Jason Schulman is an instructor in history at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He has also taught at New York University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He serves on the editorial board of Western States Jewish History and AJS Perspectives. He was a 2025 Fulbright Scholar to Australia. He earned his PhD from Emory University in 2014.
Illustrations Introduction -Jason Schulman Chapter 1: Negotiating Memory in Dixie: Alabama's Development of Holocaust Education Policy -Dan J. Puckett Chapter 2: From Legislation to Implementation: Holocaust and Genocide Education in Michigan -John Farris and Corey Harbaugh Chapter 3: Challenges of Holocaust Education on the Country Roads of West Virginia -Laurent E. Levy and Barbara A. Lewine Chapter 4: From Foundation to Impact: Holocaust Education in South Carolina -Stacy Steele Chapter 5: Civics and Teaching the Holocaust in the State of Florida -Tameka Parenti Chapter 6: Holocaust Education Must Be About Antisemitism, or It's About Nothing -Jeffrey Ellison Recommended Reading Contributors Index
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