John K. Roth, "Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the Genocide" (Cascade Books, 2020)
At Newman I co-teach a class titled "The Holocaust and its Legacies."\xa0I teach the course with a Professor of Theology and it's designed to help students understand the ways in which the Holocaust shaped the world they live in. It is, in a sense, designed to help students gain insight.\nJohn K. Roth's new book Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the Genocide (Cascade Books, 2020) may become a required text in this course.\xa0\xa0His book is different than, I think, any other books I\u2019ve discussed on the show.\xa0It\xa0is a reflection, a tribute, and perhaps a kind of valedictory all at once.\xa0John reflects on the people who have taught him, in all the different ways teaching can happen, and the lessons that he\u2019s learned over decades of thinking and writing about the Holocaust. In doing so, he offers the reader an insight both into his own development and into the way historians, theologians, philosophers and artists have responded to the Holocaust over time.\nIt's a revealing book, sober, reflective and occasionally inspiring. Roth\xa0offers us an intellectual biography that puts his\xa0other work into\xa0context.\xa0But he also challenges his readers\xa0to be better scholars and better people while recognizing the world is far too big for one person to change.\nKelly McFall is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Newman University. He\u2019s the author of four modules in the Reacting to the Past series, including\xa0The Needs of Others: Human Rights, International Organizations and Intervention in Rwanda, 1994, published by W. W. Norton Press.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies