Enacting History: A Practical Guide to Teaching the Holocaust through Theater PDF
Preview Enacting History: A Practical Guide to Teaching the Holocaust through Theater
Enacting History Enacting History is a practical guide for educators that provides methodologies and resources for teaching the Holocaust through a variety of theatrical means, including scripted texts, verbatim testimony, devised theater techniques and process-o riented creative exercises. A close collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation I Witness program and the National Jewish Theater Foundation Holocaust Theater International Initiative at the University of Miami Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies resulted in the ground-b reaking work within this volume. The material facilitates teaching the Holocaust in a way that directly connects students to individual people and historical events through the art of theater. Each section is designed to help middle and high school educators meet curricular goals, objectives and standards and to integrate other educational dis- ciplines based upon best practices. Students will gain both intellectual and emotional understanding by speaking the words of survivors, as well as young characters in scripted scenes, and developing their own performances based on historical primary sources. This book, with foreword by Michael Berenbaum, is an innovative and invaluable resource for teachers and students of the Holocaust; it is an exemplary account of how the power of theater can be harnessed within the classroom setting to encourage a deeper understanding of this defining event in history. Mira Hirsch is Director of Education at Theatrical Outfit (Atlanta), a freelance professional theater director and an educational consultant for the National Jewish Theater Foundation. Janet E. Rubin is a faculty member at Eastern Florida State College where she teaches Speech and Theatre and directs theater productions. She is Past President of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. Arnold Mittelman is President of the National Jewish Theater Foundation (NJTF) and Founding Director of NJTF Holocaust Theater International Initiative at the University of Miami Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies overseeing its research, production and education programs. Enacting History A Practical Guide to Teaching the Holocaust through Theater Mira Hirsch, Janet E. Rubin and Arnold Mittelman Foreword by Michael Berenbaum First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 Mira Hirsch, Janet E. Rubin and Arnold Mittelman The right of Mira Hirsch, Janet E. Rubin and Arnold Mittelman to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978- 1- 138- 60873- 3 (hbk) ISBN: 978- 1- 138- 60874- 0 (pbk) ISBN: 978- 0- 429- 46646- 5 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Newgen Publishing UK Mira Hirsch: For Sophie and Nate Janet E. Rubin: Dedicated with love to my sister, Shirley Friedland, and my brother, Harvey Rubin Arnold Mittelman: Dedicated to Susann Green (wife), Tyler Mittelman (son), Justine Shayman (daughter), Ashton and Cameron Shayman (grandsons) Contents List of images ix Foreword xi Acknowledgments xv How to use this book xvi How to: scripted scenes and monologues xvii How to: verbatim testimony historical narratives xxvii How to: devised theater activities xxxvi 1 Propaganda, the growth of Nazism, the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht 1 Context 1 Scripted scenes and monologues 7 Verbatim testimony historical narratives 11 Devised theater activity 15 2 Perpetrators, collaborators and bystanders 19 Context 19 Scripted scenes and monologues 23 Verbatim testimony historical narratives 28 Devised theater activity 31 3 Ghettos 33 Context 33 Scripted scenes and monologues 39 Verbatim testimony historical narratives 45 Devised theater activity 49 viii Contents 4 Concentration and extermination camps 51 Context 51 Scripted scenes and monologues 61 Verbatim testimony historical narratives 69 Devised theater activity 74 5 Fleeing and hiding 76 Context 76 Scripted scenes and monologues 81 Verbatim testimony historical narratives 89 Devised theater activity 94 6 Resistance 97 Context 97 Scripted scenes and monologues 100 Verbatim testimony historical narratives 104 Devised theater activity 109 7 Liberation 112 Context 112 Scripted scenes and monologues 115 Verbatim testimony historical narratives 121 Devised theater activity 126 8 Nazi war crimes and judgment 131 Context 131 Scripted scenes and monologues 138 Verbatim testimony historical narratives 143 Devised theater activity 147 9 Survivors and subsequent generations 150 Context 150 Scripted scenes and monologues 155 Verbatim testimony historical narratives 164 Devised theater activity 166 10 Deniers and denial 168 Context 168 Scripted scenes and monologues 170 Verbatim testimony historical narratives 174 Devised theater activity 177 About the plays 180 Works cited 185 Index 191 Images All of the following are available from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 1.1 “Kristallnacht”: nationwide pogrom 5 1.2 Poster for the antisemitic museum exhibition Der Ewige Jude 6 2.1 Adolf Hitler salutes ranks of German Youth from his car during a Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day) Parade 21 3.1 Ghettos in occupied Eastern Europe, 1941– 1942 (Map) 34 3.2 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 (Map) 38 3.3 Image of “women prisoners in Theresienstadt” courtesy of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 50 4.1 Abraham Lewent’s prisoner jacket 52 4.2 Chart of prisoner markings 53 4.3 Greater Germany major Nazi camps, 1944 (Map) 56 4.4 Nazi camps in occupied Poland, 1939– 1945 (Map) 57 4.5 Two ovens inside the Dachau Crematorium 58 5.1 Group portrait of youth hiding in LeChambon 77 5.2 Postcard photo of two men showing their wartime hiding place 78 5.3 Anne Frank at 11 years of age 81 6.1 A Jewish partisan group in the Rudninkai Forest 99 7.1 A soldier greets liberated prisoners 117 8.1 Defendants in the dock 132 8.2 Defendant Adolf Eichmann on trial 136 8.3 Adolf Eichmann listens to the proceedings through a glass booth during his trial in Jerusalem 137
The list of books you might like
