Word: holocaustic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gold says he feels the recent upswing in interest in Yiddish stems from students wanting to read literature and to preserve their ties to "family" and to the "destroyed community" of Yiddish-speaking Jews who died in the Nazi Holocaust...
Coming of Age in Post-Holocaust Israel: Aharon Appelfield, the Castle, 225 Bay State Road...
...similar claim for Core status has already been made by Erich Goldhagen, lecturer in Jewish Studies. His popular class, Gen Ed 136, "Explaining the Holocaust and the Phenomenon of Genocide," became Social Analysis 19 in 1983. But because it didn't exactly fit in the Core, it moved back to Gen Ed, where it has continued to draw large numbers of students. Enrollment did, however, drop slightly as a result of the switch...
California officials insist that their ukase to publishers is not a rebuff to religion but an endorsement of interesting, up-to-date books. The state is also demanding improved presentation of historical subjects like the Holocaust, which publishers have tiptoed around. "The publishers will publish the books we want if we are clear about what we want," says Honig. As the textbook makers considered ways to meet these sterner standards, there was a growing sense among educators that the demands of the big spenders might start to cure the affliction of simplistic books in U.S. classrooms...
...play by David Hare, Plenty chronicles the disillusionment of a young English woman, played by Streep, who cannot come to grips with an imperfect world after actively serving in the French Resistance during World War II. Haunted by the fear that mankind has failed to "grow up" after the Holocaust, Susan sets out on a masochistic mission of self-destruction, punishing herself as a representative member of an unfeeling generation that needs remediation in lessons of the past...