Azrieli Graduate School publishes PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, with funding from the Rothman Foundation. Prism offers educators a practical, scholarly resource on teaching the Holocaust at the high school, college and graduate school levels.The first issue of this peer-reviewed journal was published in fall 2009. It is edited by Azrieli faculty members Dr. Karen Shawn, visiting associate professor of Jewish education, and Dr. Jeffrey Glanz, the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Professor of Professional Ethics and Values. Each issue examines a specific topic through a variety of lenses, including education, history, literature, poetry, psychology and art. Experts from high schools, colleges, universities, museums and resource centers in the United States and Israel bring diverse perspectives highlighting particular facets of the issue at hand. To obtain a hard copy of the journal, e-mail prism@yu.edu.
To view the contents of each issue, select the applicable "Table of Contents" below.
For the complete PRISM PDF, select the image below of the journal cover.
New Issue!
Our 2013 issue explores the Kindertransport and other attempts at large-scale rescue of Jewish children. Among the unique and classroom-ready pieces within are a Readers' Theater piece on the Kindertransport, along with the background on its original production in England; an introduction to the Centropa website, highlighting the story of Lily Tauber, a Kindertransport survivor; and narrative and poetic testimony from two Kinder saved by Nicholas Winton.
Volume 5: Table of Contents
Examines the various ways in which Jews acted in response to the slow and systematic humiliation, separation, exclusion, deprivation, ghettoization, internment, slave labor, and, ultimately, the destruction of their communities and the deportation and murder of their friends and families. This issue examines the complexities involved in Jewish religious, spiritual, and physical resistance during the Holocaust and concludes that the question should not be why there was so little resistance but how there was so much.
Volume 4: Table of Contents
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Examines relationships among family members during the Holocaust and in its aftermath.
Volume 3: Table of Contents
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Looks at bystander behavior.
Volume 2: Table of Contents
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Explores the concept of trauma and resilience in children during the Holocaust, as well as the effects today of teaching and learning about it.
Volume 1: Table of Contents
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