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Sensitive and appropriate teaching of the Holocaust is essential at all levels of formal and informal education. The Holocaust Education Reader by Ronnie Landau provides an educational companion for all those teaching this subject.
The book is designed to challenge student use of primary resources and encourage extra-disciplinary analysis.
This authoritative guide contains:
* a guide to major dilemmas confronting teachers
* documentary and literary selected readings
* suggested teaching activities
* an analysis of 'genocide' in the modern era
* a...

This cross-disciplinary study of the Holocaust has been designed to provide a reference source. It includes: an historical overview and of the Holocaust and the years immediately preceding it; key historical documents, each with a brief introduction; an examination of the nature and extent of the crime of genocide in the modern age; and suggested questions, thematically arranged, together with related bibliographies.

What exactly have historians, playwrights, philosophers, humourists, poets, politicians, and others had to say about the Seven Deadly Sins, humanity's constant companions? In this collection of thoughts, homilies, witticisms and warnings, internationally renowned historian, Ronnie S Landau, examines the place of the Seven Deadly Sins - pride, envy, wrath, greed, sloth, gluttony and lust - within world culture and consciousness over the past 2,500 years. Penetrating and thought-provoking, often irreverent, this rich assembly of ideas aims to challenge the way we think about our emotions,...

Brief but surprisingly comprehensive, The Nazi Holocaust places the tragedy in historical context, summarizes its major events, and considers the moral, ethical, and psychological issues that have followed in its wake. By showing how the event is universal rather than uniquely Jewish, and by making connections between the Holocaust and larger human history, Ronnie S. Landau succeeds in making the Holocaust understandable for the common reader. "The central problems in communicating the Holocaust experience", Landau writes, "involve questions of context, perspective, balance, and emphasis....

The Nazi Holocaust is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic explanations Ronnie Landau has set out, in a clear, thought-provoking and enlightened fashion, to mediate betweeen this vast, often unapproachable subject and the reader who wrestles with its meaning. Locating the Holocaust within a number of different contexts Jewish history, German history, genocide in the modern age, the larger story of human bigotry and the triumph of ideology over conscience Landau penetrates to the very heart...