11 courses with the subject JEHN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
JEHN 601Jewish Cultural Life: Lessons in Courage and Resilience3
A survey of modern Jewish history from the French Revolution to World War I. Major developments are analyzed considering political, social, and ideological currents and trends. Emphasis is placed upon the emergence of diverse expressions of Jewish religious and secular identity. Topics include: the Enlightenment and emancipation; rise of Reform Judaism, eastern Haskalah, Volozhin and the Yeshiva movement, the Mussar movement, Jewish socialism, political and racial antisemitism, migrations, and Zionism. This course will explore how to teach about these historical events in light of the impending Holocaust.
JEHN 621Psychology and Philosophy of the Holocaust3
This course examines the psychology of individuals and groups, including perpetrators, victims, and bystanders, during the Holocaust. We will look at the influences of bias and hatred with an eye towards understanding racism, nationalism, xenophobia, and intolerance. The course will explore the individuals and communities who exhibited resilience and moral courage during and after the Holocaust. It will also explore the Jewish response to tragedy and suffering before, during, and after the Holocaust. Touro University | Graduate School of Education | 2025-2027 Catalog 75
JEHN 622Understanding and Combatting Antisemitism3
This course explores various ways of understanding and teaching about the Holocaust and antisemitism. It examines the different forms of antisemitism throughout Jewish history since the beginning of Christianity until today. It addresses key issues including religious and racial antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and Holocaust denial. The course will further explore ways of understanding and addressing antisemitism including self- defense, education, and advocacy.
Any tragedy, especially one of the magnitude of the Holocaust, is always challenging to teach. This course examines methods for teaching about the Holocaust and other difficult histories in developmentally appropriate ways. Highlighted in the course will be the rise of dark tourism and increasing exposure to atrocities on social media. Educators will be empowered to create trauma-safe learning spaces in classrooms and museums while still grappling with disturbing knowledge, artifacts, videos, and images, including firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors.
This course will examine the effectiveness of various pedagogical approaches for teaching about the Holocaust. It will look at well-established and innovative methodologies utilized in the teaching of the Holocaust to different audiences across the globe. It will emphasize the importance of developmental considerations, available technologies, and program evaluation. Candidates will be required to develop an original culminating project that can be used to teach about the Holocaust.
Supplemental Admission Requirements (Please see page 13 for general requirements) • Bachelor’s degree in Education, History, or a related field. Touro University | Graduate School of Education | 2025-2027 Catalog 37
The Holocaust consisted of a sequence of many different intermediate stages, which since 1933 included the social and legal exclusion of Jews, forced emigration, deportation and finally ghettoization, exploitation, and murder. In various countries and at different times, this sequence was often pursued simultaneously. Students will first be able to comprehend these steps, then reconstruct how they affected those who were persecuted and be able to address questions to the motives of perpetrators and the non-Jewish environment. What scope of action existed for victims, perpetrators, and bystanders? Was it possible to foresee what the Nazis intended to do? What role did the war against Poland in 1939 and the World War play in radicalizing anti-Jewish politics? What sources can provide answers to the questions? Touro University | Graduate School of Education | 2025-2027 Catalog 76
JEHN 644Teaching the Holocaust Through the Lens of Movies and Documentaries3
The Holocaust has been the subject of movies and documentaries since 1945. Topics like survival, resistance, bystanders, and perpetrators have been dealt with, and even comedies were filmed. This seminar will analyze some memorable examples, discuss methods and intentions of the movie/documentary makers, and ask for the way in which these films contribute to understanding the Holocaust (making the Holocaust understandable). Special attention will be directed to the question of how movies and documentaries can help teaching the Holocaust and how they reach their audience, which also means investigating the impact of these films. We will also look at how topics and approaches changed during time – and how they changed the perception of the Holocaust by societies.
JEHN 648Teaching Literature of Modern Jewish History Focusing on the Holocaust3
The Holocaust has an immense significance in Modern Jewish History because it consists of countless facets that raise questions of morality, religiosity, law, and situational factors that go beyond its temporality. Classroom educators can and should use literature as one educational form of grappling with these questions. This becomes even more complex and crucial as narratives in and around literature are changing. This course will explore how to teach the Holocaust via several key examples of literature that relate to the Jewish experience and to other historical experiences.
This course will examine the ways in which individuals and societies in Europe, America, and Israel struggled with and sought justice for the victims of the Nazi crimes after the Second World War. Topics will include the Nuremberg trials in postwar Germany, the Eichmann trial in Israel, and similarities and differences between the Holocaust and other experiences of intolerance. As such, we will define genocide and apartheid and understand how these terms relate to the Holocaust, other historical events, and current discourse. Through the course, we will observe the changes in the attitudes of societies toward the Holocaust over the years; including Germany as the society that has grappled with its Nazi past. We will thus deal with the Nuremberg Trials and its perception, later trials up to the Demjanjuk Trial after the turn of the millennium. Questions surrounding compensation and restitution will also be examined. Finally, we will examine different educational approaches regarding lessons to be learned from the Holocaust, confronting Holocaust denial, and growing antisemitism. Touro University | Graduate School of Education | 2025-2027 Catalog 77
JEHN 673Teaching the Holocaust through Memorials and Museums3
Memorial sites and museums, visited by millions of people each year, are key places for remembering Jewish life and Nazi crimes during Holocaust. Their concepts, however, aim at different goals. The course will explore different memorials worldwide and see how their presentation can be contextualized in theories of memory, memorialization, and identity. It will analyze how a successful communication of Holocaust can be achieved. We will examine the influence and educational impact of museums and memorial sites in various geographical locations. It will explore questions of representation of victims, perpetrators, bystanders, and upstanders. Candidates will be offered the opportunity to take this course on-site at Touro Berlin.
