Education about the Shoah Won’t Stop Anti-Semitism
Using dead Jews as symbols isn’t helping living ones.
April 5, 2023
Education about the Shoah Won’t Stop Anti-Semitism
Using dead Jews as symbols isn’t helping living ones.
During the past half-century, Holocaust education has been assiduously promoted in the U.S. by Jewish organizations, by numerous museums and memorials, by countless well-meaning Gentiles, and by state and local governments. These undertakings always rest on a belief that Nazis’ slaughter of 6 million Jews conveys some important lesson or message, and American Jews tend to assume that teaching about the subject inoculates against anti-Semitism. But by most indications anti-Semitism appears to be on the rise, despite all this education. Dara Horn investigates:
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