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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Main Author: Perl, Sondra
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2005]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the road to dialogue
  • A simple invitation
  • History becomes real
  • Interlude : fall-winter 1996-1997
  • A second course, a second inquiry
  • Whipped by the wind
  • Interlude : winter-spring 1997
  • A dialogue in letters
  • Unexpected lessons
  • Uncommon ground
  • The question of forgiveness
  • When the wind whispers
  • Epilogue : on American soil.