The HEPRP Lead Teacher Series provides seminars and teaching materials concerning Holocaust education and prejudice reduction utilizing current scholarship in the field in an effort to promote this professional development for teachers.
Seminars are taught by scholars who are internationally recognized in their fields of expertise. Readings and bibliographies are provided to participants in advance of the series.
Past Series Themes
• War and Genocide (2003-2004)
• Genocide: Was it Inevitable? Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Voices of the Victims (2004-2005)
• Dealing with Genocide in National History: United States, former Yugoslavia, Germany and Armenia (2005-2006)
• Teaching the Holocaust through History, Literature, Art and Monuments (2006-2007)
• A Year in Practicum: The Power of Survivor Testimony (2007-2008)
THE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION PREJUDICE REDUCTION PROGRAM PRESENTS THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
2008-2009 Lead Teacher Series
“Vilnius: A Case History of Multi-ethnicity”
The Lead Teacher Series is open to all teachers in the Greater New Haven area. To receive CEU’s participants must attend three of the five sessions. The sessions will be held between 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the JCC of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. The sessions are free of charge. A light buffet dinner is included.
Session 1: Thursday, January 8, 2009
“Vilnius: Pre- World War II”
Professor Samuel D. Kassow is the Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College He has been Visiting Professor of History at Princeton and Wesleyan Universities as well as the Jewish Theological Seminary. Prof. Kassow frequently lectures internationally on Modern East European Jewish History.
Session 2: Thursday, January 29, 2009
“Vilnius: World War II”
Professor Samuel D. Kassow
Session 3: Thursday, February 26, 2009
“Youth and Culture in Jewish Vilna Between the World Wars”
Rachel Wizner coordinated the Polish-Jewish Youth Autobiographies Project
of the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research in New York City. She has lectured
widely on the history and culture of Polish-Lithuanian Jewry in the modern
period. A native of Vilna, she returned to her birthplace in 2001 as a
faculty member of the Vilnius Program in Yiddish.
Session 4: Thursday, April 23, 2009
“Sam Bak’s Vilna Series of Paintings and Poetry and Testimony Excerpts from Vilna”
Professor Lawrence Langer is Alumni Chair Professor (emeritus) of English at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. Prof. Langer is known throughout the world for his contributions to the study of the Holocaust and how it is portrayed in literature.
Session 5: TBA
“Partisans of Vilna” is a documentary co-written by director Josh Waletzky (Image Before My Eyes) and producer Aviva Kempner (The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg). Partisans of Vilna skillfully blends songs, newsreels and archival footage with interviews of over forty Holocaust survivors to paint an eye-opening portrait of the courageous Jewish resistance in Vilna.
Question and Answer Period:
Joanne Rudof , Fortunoff Video Archivist, Yale
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