Offers classroom teachers of high school and college students practical, employable strategies for raising Jewish voices and challenging antisemitism
Challenging Antisemitism: Lessons from Literacy Classrooms provides theoretical framing and historical context for understanding contemporary antisemitism and offers teachers curricular ideas and practical strategies to address antisemitism and amplify Jewish voices in secondary and post-secondary literacy classrooms.
Mara Lee Grayson is the author of Teaching Racial Literacy: Reflective Practices for Critical Writing, Race Talk in the Age of the Trigger Warning: Recognizing and Challenging Classroom Cultures of Silence, and Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric. She works as an associate professor of English at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Judith Chriqui Benchimol is a college composition and English education lecturer with Sephardic Jewish roots. She holds a Masters degree in Life Writing from University of East Anglia and is presently a Ph.D. candidate and nonfiction writing lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Introduction to the Collection: Why Is It So Hard to Talk about Antisemitism?
Mara Lee Grayson & Judith Chriqui Benchimol
Chapter 1: The Study of Comedic Rhetoric as an Antidote to Antisemitism
Lauri Mattenson
Chapter 2: Repairing the World: Raising Awareness through Social Justice Action in the English Classroom
Rachel Kraushaar
Chapter 3: Avoiding Conflation, Deflection, and Distraction: Untangling Antisemitism from Zionism and Anti-Zionism
Mara Lee Grayson
Chapter 4: Community Engagement Positionality Statements: An Introduction
Alex Slotkin
Chapter 5: Expanding a Pedagogy of Identity
Gillian Steinberg
Chapter 6: Teaching the Past to Protect the Future: Degenerate Art as a Modern-Day Cultural Warning
Cheryl Hogue Smith
Chapter 7: Representations of the Holocaust and Connected Histories
Ania Switzer
Chapter 8: Teaching Art Spiegelman's Maus and Kendrick Lamar's album DAMN. in the Predominantly White, Catholic College Classroom
Maureen Daniels Akerib
Chapter 9: Jewish Experiences That Move Beyond Holocaust Narratives: A Resource For English Teachers
Judith Chriqui Benchimol
About the Contributors