Azrieli Graduate School publishes PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, with funding from the Rothman Foundation. Prism offers educators a practical, scholarly resource on teaching the Holocaust at the high school, college and graduate school levels.The first issue of this peer-reviewed journal was published in fall 2009. It is edited by Azrieli faculty members Dr. Karen Shawn, Visiting Associate Professor of Jewish education,and Dr. Jeffrey Glanz, the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Professor of Professional Ethics and Values. Each issue examines a specific topic through a variety of lenses, including education, history, literature, poetry, psychology and art. Experts from high schools, colleges, universities, museums and resource centers in the United States and Israel bring diverse perspectives highlighting particular facets of the issue at hand.To obtain a hard copy of the journal, e-mail prism@yu.edu. 

To view the contents of each issue, click on the applicable "Table of Contents" below. 

 VOLUME 1  

explores the concept of trauma and resilience in children during the Holocaust, as well as the effects today of teaching and learning about it. 

Volume 1: Table of Contents 

Additional resources mentioned in various essays in Volume 1: 

www.survivorstory.com (see “My Mother, My Art: Reflections from a Child of a Survivor,” p. 33)

www.healingstory.org (see “Arts Education After Auschwitz: Students, Survivors, and Storytelling in the U.S. Premiere of ‘Witness Theater,’” p. 38)

http://remember.org/camps 

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html 

http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/resource/resource.html 

http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/index.html (All of these sites are found in “The Necessity of Darkness: The Pedagogic Imperative to Teach About the Death Camps,” p. 7

 VOLUME 2 looks at bystander behavior.  

Volume 2: Table of Contents   

Additional resources mentioned in various essays in Volume 1, Issue 2: 

www.ushmm.org (see “Moving Our Students Along the Continuum of Benevolence,” p. 20)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZSS3yxpnFU&feature=related (see above, p. 21)

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/nussbaum/nussbaum/_5.asp (see above, p. 21)

 http://www.survivorstory.com (see “What the Neighbors Knew,” p. 63)

http://www1.yadvashem.org/education/lessonplan/english/poetry.htm (See “‘We Can Form a Minyan for Righteousness’: Teaching About the Bystander in a Catholic High School,” p. 74)

http://www1.yadvashem.org/education/adl/lesson_9.htm (See above, p. 74)

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/stlouis/ (see above, p. 74)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRh5qy09nNw (see “German Bystander Inaction During the Holocaust: Lessons Learned From Social Psychology and Teachable Moments for Today’s Students,” p. 83)

www.operationlastchance.org; www.wiesenthal.com; www.targumshlishi.org (see “Can a Holocaust Perpetrator Become a Bystander?” p. 116.

VOLUME 3 examines relationships among family members during the Holocaust and in its aftermath. 

www.college.usc.edu/vhi/ ; www.1939club.com/VideoTestimonyList.htm; and http://college.usc.edu/vhi/otv/otv.php (See “Using Archival Documents, Memoir, and Testimony to Teach About Jewish Families During and After the Holocaust,” pp. 63-64)

http://3gnewyork.org/wordpress/wedu/ (See “Rethinking Holocaust Families,” p. 113)

www.ushmm.org/propaganda/timeline/1918-1932; and www.colby.edu/personal/r/rmscheck/GermanyD4.html (See “Auguststrasse 25, An Experiential Memorial: Teaching About Jewish Family Life in Pre-Holocaust Germany,” p. 121

http://www.myjewishlegacy.com;

http://huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/20/third-generation-jews-fig_n_545114.html;  

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grandchildren-of-Holocaust-Survivors/117499674939502;

http://3gnewyork.org/wordpress/;

http://twitter.com/3GNY;

http://3gnewyork.org/wordpress//family-histories/;

http://www.facebook.com/torchofmemory;

http://think.mtv.com;

www.ushmm.org;

www.yadvashem.org;

http://jtec.macam.ac.il/portal/;

www.jewishpartisans.org;

www.centropa.org;

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/holocaustsurvivors/; and

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ncche/ (See “‘Of All Those Acts’: Learning From and Teaching the Third Generation,” pp. 135-140) 

NEW ISSUE! 

VOLUME 4 examines the various ways in which Jews acted in response to the slow and systematic humiliation, separation, exclusion, deprivation, ghettoization, internment, slave labor, and, ultimately, the destruction of their communities and the deportation and murder of their friends and families. This issue examines the complexities involved in Jewish religious, spiritual, and physical resistance during the Holocaust and concludes that the question should not be why there was so little resistance but how there was so much. 

Volume 4: Table of Contents  

Additional resources mentioned in various essays in Volume 4:  

http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/ (see Introduction, p. 6)

www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/mantello/ (see “The Mantello Rescue Mission,” p. 93)

www.memoryloops.net (see “‘I Shall Survive You All!’ An Instant of Grace Amidst Michaela Melian’s Memory Loops Memorial,” p. 132)

www.OperationLastChance.org (see “Pursuing Perpetrators, Preserving History, and Educating the Next Generation: A Review of Efraim Zuroff’s Operation Last Chance, p. 137)