Summer Seminar
Our eleven-day summer seminar is open to middle school, high school, and college educators from across the United States and will take place from June 16 – 27, 2019 in NYC. Led by Sondra Perl and Jennifer Lemberg, the seminar encourages teachers to think creatively and collaboratively about how they teach the Holocaust, genocide, and social justice. Participants become adept at dealing with difficult material and discover how writing, dialogue, and inquiry can help motivate students toward social action. Prior experience teaching the Holocaust or focusing on social injustice in the classroom is required. Applicants should have at least five years’ classroom experience and need to be at least five years away from retirement.
Course content includes:
- Testimony from Holocaust survivors
- Workshops by scholars and artists
- A day at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
- A focus on experiential learning, interactive pedagogy, and writing
- Outings to historic sites and cultural events
Speakers at the 2019 Summer Seminar will include, among others:
- Alexandra Zapruder, author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust
- Irving Roth on surviving Auschwitz
- Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of the Concentration Camps
- Ellen Kennedy, Exectutive Director, World Without Genocide
- Rabbi Greg Wall on Jewish culture and klezmer music
All participants receive a fellowship of $350, free housing at Columbia University, and round-trip airfare. Local transportation and most meals will be provided by TOLI.
Applications for 2019 are now closed. 2020 applications will be available in November.
How do we make the Holocaust accessible to students? What’s at stake for them, for us, for the world? But equally important, what can we learn by working with one another?”
– Sondra Perl, Seminar Director
Inside the Summer Seminar
Watch highlights from the NYC Summer Seminars
The Memorial Library
The home of TOLI is at the Memorial Library building located on Manhattan's East side.