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German teachers' pilgrimage to an Israeli Holocaust Memorial: Emotions, encounters, and contested visions
Author(s): Levenson, Lance; Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike; Kessl, Fabian; Resnik, Julia
Date: 2024
Topics: Holocaust Education, Educational Tours, Anthropology, Israel Education, Israel-Diaspora Relations, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: Drawing on anthropological conceptions of pilgrimage, our ethnography of professional development at an Israeli Holocaust Memorial follows German teachers on journeys to Israel. Seeking transformative and transferable experiences to combat anti-Semitism in schools, teachers experienced the voyage as a secular pilgrimage rooted in Christian traditions of guilt, confession, and absolution. As teachers' emotional encounters in Israel simultaneously forged communitas and challenged official historical–pedagogical visions, their practices abroad elucidate prevalent Holocaust education discourses in contemporary Germany.
'I Didn't Know How to Be with My Husband': State-Religion Struggles over Sex Education in Israel and England
Author(s): Taragin-Zeller, Lea; Kasstan, Ben
Date: 2020
Topics: Sex Education, Haredi / Strictly Orthodox Jews, Main Topic: Other, Education
Abstract: Sex education presents a major dilemma for state‐minority relations, reflecting a conflict between basic rights to education and religious freedom. In this comparative ethnography of informal sex education among ultra‐Orthodox Jews (Haredim) in Israel and England, we frame the critical difference between “age‐appropriate” and “life‐stage” (marriage and childbirth) models of sex education. Conceptualizing these competing approaches as disputes over “knowledge responsibility,” we call for more context‐specific understandings of how educational responsibilities are envisioned in increasingly diverse populations.