Schools should teach a broader Jewish history to avoid “Holocaust fatigue”, historian Sir Simon Schama has warned.
Sir Simon, who was knighted in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, told the Daily Telegraph at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival that teaching in UK schools show little appreciation for Jews’ “epic, extraordinary” history, instead focusing disproportionately on the Shoah.
The academic added that education was “absolutely essential” to countering antisemitism.
He said: “The challenge is to do it in a way which the kids on the receiving end don’t get Holocaust fatigue, somehow to make a real creative effort without dumbing it down at all, to actually do it in the kind of zone of their understanding and the liveliness of their wiring and age, and even for better or worse, with Instagram or Twitter.
