Janusz Korczak and Yitzhak Katzenelson: Two Educators in the Abysses of History

Moshe Shner

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2021

Janusz Korczak and Yitzhak Katzenelson

Two Educators in the Abysses of History

Moshe Shner

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110683950

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The twentieth century left humanity in despair. Two World Wars caused the death of more than seventy million people. The Holocaust of the Jews and genocide against other groups left us the images of factories of death and names of unimagined cruelty. Humanity learned about its unlimited ability to inflict suffering and death. Hell appeared as a human-made reality. Two educators, the Polish-Jewish educator and children’s rights advocate Janusz Korczak (murdered in Treblinka in 1942), and Yitzhak Katzenelson, a Bible teacher, dramatist and a poet (murdered in Auschwitz in 1944), shared the same historical reality but responded in very different ways. A comparative study of their legacies leads explores questions of identity, leadership, and the educators' role in the face of totalitarianism, terror and genocide. The book may appeal to teachers in all disciplines who deal with their identity as educators, and to historians and civic rights activists in any society, culture or nationality.

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Moshe Shner, Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
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Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1. Why Janusz Korczak and Yitzhak Katzenelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Holocaust as a Universal Lesson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
3. Janusz Korczak – Henryk Goldszmit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
4. Korczak’s Pedagogy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
5. Children’s Rights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
6. Between Two Worlds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
7. The Land of Hope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
8. The Kingdom of Children in Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
9. Yitzhak Katzenelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
10. Down the Ladder of Despair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
11. Korczak and Katzenelson: Two Responses, Two Perspectives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Historians, academics and students in Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Educational Sciences, and Civic Education
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 230
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
Keywords: Education; Holocaust; Resistance; Children's rights

eBook

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110683950

Hardcover

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110683745