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Based on research conducted within a Lubavitch girls' yeshivah in the United States, this article describes in detail how the Holocaust was taught and learned about in an eighth grade, secular studies classroom. The article describes the yeshivah, its site and students, and the teacher and the unit she taught. Special attention is given to the meaning the students made of their learning. The article concludes by arguing that the Shoah was rendered mysterious in this classroom, that the teaching of history was compromised, and that both the students' historical understandings and religious growth opportunities were shortchanged in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the role of philosophers Horace M. Kallen and John Dewey in Jewish Education in the U.S. Kallen was a philosopher and educator who became known in his work about the theory of cultural pluralism. Dewey has become his collaborator in promoting Jewish education in the country. Kallen and Dewey has become friends since their first meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Cambridge in 1905. The two philosophers have shared political outlook and collaborated in different philosophical and political issues. The cultural pluralism in the country has succeeded which it was advanced by Kallen and was accepted in principle by Jewish survivalists.