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Karen Shawn and Keren Goldfrad, Editors
William Younglove, Associate Editor
This soft-cover set is designed for students and teachers in grades 9-12, college, and university. Practical and highly readable, it is for use in history, social studies, English, Holocaust history and literature, religion, and humanities classes, and for anyone interested in learning about the Holocaust through literary narratives.
The anthology offers 27 outstanding short stories by Holocaust survivors and contemporary writers including Rachmil Bryks, Ida Fink, Bernard Gotfryd, Aharon Megged, Cynthia Ozick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Elie Wiesel.
Stories Chosen for Classroom Use
The anthology is organized chronologically and thematically, allowing teachers to incorporate selections appropriately throughout any related course of study.
From “In the Beginning” through “The Second Generation and After,” the stories in each of the 11 sections illuminate moments of the daily lives of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe and offer readers a glimpse of the varied responses of men, women, and children to the tragedy unfolding around them.
Extensive Teacher’s Guide
American master teachers, representing public, private, Catholic, and Jewish schools, field-tested the stories, and in highly-engaging, first-person essays, they share their classroom experiences and offer immediately useful suggestions for making these short narratives accessible to learners of all backgrounds and levels.
Included are goals and objectives, vocabulary, relation to state standards, activities, assessment advice, and extensive citations for research and individualized instruction, including up-to-date Web sites.
Literary criticism
In addition, college professors from Israel, Australia, and America provide incisive and detailed literary analyses of each story, along with scholarly resources. These outstanding essays provide a unique complement to the teaching suggestions.
The Call of Memory Anthology: An Anthology for the Classroom
The Call of Memory: A Teacher’s Guide
The Call of Memory: A Teacher’s Guide & Anthology Set
Classroom Set
Order 20 or more copies of the Call of Memory Anthology, and you'll receive a free copy of the Call of Memory Teacher's Guide. Please indicate the number of copies of the anthology you want, at $20 each, and the Teacher's Guide will be automatically added to your order.
Purchase Orders
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Ben Yehuda Press
430 Kensington Rd
Teaneck, NJ 07666
fax: 201-917-1278
email: orders@BenYehudaPress.com
The Call of Memory Anthology: An Anthology for the Classroom
The Call of Memory: A Teacher’s Guide
The Call of Memory: A Teacher’s Guide & Anthology Set
Purchase Orders
Purchase orders from school or libraries can be sent to
Ben Yehuda Press
430 Kensington Rd
Teaneck, NJ 07666
fax: 201-917-1278
email: orders@BenYehudaPress.com
Reactions to The Call of Memory
“I have spent some hours with The Call of Memory—the anthology and the Teacher's Guide. I am familiar with some selections; others are new to me, and are impressive and freshly moving (e.g., Aharon Megged's "The Name")....
“The anthology choices (I've now read about half, or a little more) are excellent, each one for itself, but superbly so as a kind of chorus.... how right, and necessary, to find Aharon Appelfeld and Ida Fink and Aharon Megged and Elie Wiesel and Bernard Gotfryd here, opening us to history and memory! Us--and the new generations for whom these lamentations and understandings become more and more remote. Your role, and that of your colleagues, is that of indispensible, and indelible, chroniclers. I am grateful to you for including "The Shawl" and for the presence here of these two fine volumes.”
Cynthia Ozick
“This two volume anthology and Teacher’s Guide will be of great value to the professionals in high schools and colleges as they instruct their students in Holocaust education. The educator will be able to have their students read the original essays, review literacy interpretations and utilize teaching techniques for the classroom. I highly recommend this material for the classroom.”
Dr. Paul B. Winkler
Executive Director
New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education
This teacher’s guide is an excellent resource. The stellar literary selections in the complementary literary anthology provide the opportunity to delve more deeply into the work of one writer or to study various writers on the same topic. The analytic essay accompanying each narrative enriches background knowledge and stimulates critical thinking while the pedagogic essay provides clear, thoughtful suggestions and guidance. The Call of Memory is a sensitive and valuable resource for those who choose to grapple with this daunting subject.
Carol Danks
Co-editor, The Holocaust: Prejudice Unleashed and Teaching for a Tolerant World, Grades 9-12
Museum Teacher Fellow and member of the Regional Education Corps of the USHMM
Former member of the Ohio Council on Holocaust Education
The Call of Memory is published by Ben Yehuda Press