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Wednesday 15 February 2017

1-2:00pm

Free

From the age of four, and up until the age of eighteen, children in Israel learn about the Holocaust. A siren that sounds across the country on Holocaust Memorial Day, a children’s picture book, a museum visit, a ceremony, all constitute Holocaust education that covers each and every school year from kindergarten through to high school.

Via images, video clips and close reading of texts, this workshop will give an overview of Holocaust education in Israel, a historical event that is most prominent in shaping the identity of the country’s youth.

Presenter’s Bio: Dr Dan Porat teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published The Boy: A Holocaust Story (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2010), a book focused on the iconic photograph of a little boy raising his hands in the Warsaw ghetto. Currently he is writing a book State of Suspicion: Israel Tries Jews Who Collaborated with Nazis that  focuses on forty criminal trials (1950-1972) in which the State of Israel prosecuted Holocaust survivors for allegedly collaborating with the Nazis.

Dr Porat is a Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Academic Exchange Fellow. His visit to Australia has been sponsored by the Fund which supports co-operative work between the University of Sydney and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

This event is held in cooperation with the Australian Association for Jewish Studies and the Dept of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, The University of Sydney.