On Austrian soil : teaching those I was taught to hate /
Presents the story of a Jewish American teacher, whose interaction with her adult Austrian students in Innsbruck affects her post-Holocaust attitude toward being Jewish and toward the children of Nazis, whom she was teaching. She frees herself from hate, while affecting her students, who begin to co...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2005]
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| Summary: | Presents the story of a Jewish American teacher, whose interaction with her adult Austrian students in Innsbruck affects her post-Holocaust attitude toward being Jewish and toward the children of Nazis, whom she was teaching. She frees herself from hate, while affecting her students, who begin to confront the Nazi past of their country and their parents. Includes details about the Nazi period in Innsbruck and the Nazi pasts of the parents-in-law of one of her students. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-228). |
| ISBN: | 0791463893 9780791463895 0791463907 9780791463901 |