"How does one teach Yiddish literature without teaching something about the history of the countries in which it was created-mainly Poland, Ukraine, Russia-and the history of the Jews in those countries? How does one teach Jewish literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries without teaching about anti-Semitism, which was pervasive throughout this region at this time and sanctioned by the government? How many references to the persecution of the Jews in Eastern Europe are too many references? There is no way to avoid the topic of suffering. But how much gloom is too much gloom? How many pogrom stories should one teach? How many novels about the Holocaust?"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Goldie_Morgentaler
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Goldie Morgentaler
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Goldie Morgentaler →
Related Quotes
"Most non-Jews, I have come to realize-and not just my young Albertan students-know little about the history of the Je…"
"Studying what is specific to one culture is often the first step toward understanding many cultures. And that, finall…"
"In the end it does not matter whether students are Jewish or not Jewish. What matters is that they be sympathetic to …"
"Working together on the translation of my books forged a bond between us that is stronger than the bond I have with a…"
"I used to be a crime reporter for a newspaper in a midsize Canadian city. We liked to say we had a population of a mi…"
"2. , , Paris, France has been running what he calls "a socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore" for 50 years. Hi…"
"is the anti-Paris. Lodged among the rocky cliffs on France's southern coast, it is a brash and sun-scoured city. Inst…"
"During my four months at the bookstore, I read over one hundred and fifty books. ... That's the biggest luxury in lif…"
"The , which measures the , together with the total energy density of the Universe, sets the size of the observable Un…"
"We are at an interesting juncture in cosmology. With new methods and technology, the accuracy in measurement of the h…"