BOSTON JEWISH ADVOCATE: Amherst, Mass. Teaching the Holocaust Through Writing
September 17, 2018
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Holocaust Education Seminar in Michigan Teachers Hear from Survivors, Visit Armenian Center
September 17, 2018
This July in Farmington Hills, Michigan, 16 educators gathered and bring the Holocaust back to the forefront of education during a week-long intensive seminar. Now in its seventh year, the seminar is one of many taking place across the country this summer, organized and sponsored by the Olga Lengyel Institute…
Full look at the Holocaust
July 19, 2018
Published by THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s a weighty and powerful job to teach children about one of the most infamous genocides in modern history. And about 25 educators from across the state spent some of their summer learning how best to do just that. Read the…
Montana Seminar Returns to Billings, Spotlight on the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Tribes
July 13, 2018
What lessons can be drawn from learning about the Holocaust and Native American experience? That is what 35 educators considered during a week-long seminar that began on June 10 in Billings, Montana. Worlds Apart But Not Strangers is the title of the program, sponsored by The Olga Lengyel Institute for…
TOLI US Program Director, Sondra Perl: Overcoming Cultural Barriers through Writing
July 13, 2018
Sondra Perl, Director of TOLI US Programs, second from right, at a TOLI seminar in Wisconsin. Sondra Perl, Director of the Olga Lengyel Institute and academic architect of the TOLI seminars, traces her interest in Holocaust studies back to the summer of 1996, when she was…
13th Annual NYC Seminar Brings Teachers From Across The United States
July 13, 2018
TOLI held its thirteenth annual summer seminar in NYC from June 16 – 28, with participants including 23 middle school, high school, and college faculty members from across the United States and one from Greece. This year was especially notable in that with the participation of teachers from North Dakota,…
TOLI SEMINAR IN POLAND FOR TEACHERS EXAMINES HOLOCAUST, ANTI-SEMITISM AND RACISM
July 13, 2018
The Olga Lengyel Institute conducted its first annual seminar for teachers in Poland, July 3-8, learning about the Holocaust and drawing upon its lessons to confront contemporary anti-Semitism, racism and abuse of human rights. The seminar took place at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN), a partner…
TOLI Sacramento Seminar, Lens on Asian Americans: Japanese-American Internment, Laos Refugees
June 30, 2018
TOLI Seminar in Sacramento Lens on Asian American Experience: Japanese-American Internment of WWII and Mien Refugees of Laos June 22, 2018 How have the experiences of Japanese-American and Mien refugees in the 20th century impacted the history and culture of the West Coast and…
Customizing Holocaust education, and applicable lessons, in America and Europe
June 19, 2018
Published by the JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE: The first seminar, which concluded on June 7 in Jackson, Miss., compared the exclusionary policies of Nazi Germany with the Jim Crow laws operating during the same time period in the United States. BY ELIANA RUDEE (June 19, 2018 / JNS) In the context…HOLOCAUST SEMINAR EXAMINES GERMAN ANTI-JEWISH AND JIM CROW RACE LAWS
June 15, 2018
TOLI TEACHERS’ PROGRAM IN JACKSON, MS. June 14, 2018 How can the experiences of African Americans who lived under Jim Crow Laws shed light on the segregation Jews in Europe faced under German anti-Jewish laws? That is what 23 educators considered during a groundbreaking 3-day seminar that took place last…