In the Shadow of the Holocaust

This paper analyses the legacy of the Holocaust in the development of Moriah College, today the largest Jewish school in Australia, and explains why this tragedy led to a determined effort to achieve Jewish renewal as well as academic success. The growth of the College was facilitated first by restitution and later by the generosity of survivors. As a result of survivors’ reluctance to talk about their experiences, there was no formal study of the Holocaust until the late 1970s when Holocaust education and memorialisation became part of the College’s programme. An analysis of this adds to our understanding of the ‘silence’, an issue of significant debate in recent scholarship

Aesthetics · Art · Generosity · Higher education · Judaism · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Shadow (psychology · Silence · Social science · Sociology · The Holocaust · Theology · Tragedy (event · Australian History and Society · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Law · Philosophy · Psychology