Echoes and Reflections

Teacher Workshop - Echoes and Reflections
October 21, 2009
Central Library

Facilitators

Deborah A. Batiste

Deborah was one of the lead authors of Echoes and Reflections and now serves as ADL's Echoes and Reflections Project Director, responsible for the day-to-day operations of the project, including working closely with Yad Vashem, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, and ADL regional offices; conducting national training programs; presenting at conferences; developing support materials; and for all of the recordkeeping and reporting associated with the project. Except for a three-year period when she was with the Annenberg Foundation, Deborah has been with the ADL since 1991. From 1974Ð1991, she taught high school English and supervised student teachers in Prince George's County, Maryland. She holds a B.S. in Secondary Education and a Master's degree in Psychology. In 1999, Deborah was named Multicultural Educator of the Year by the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME); in 2007, she was awarded the Anti-Defamation League's Senn/Greenberg Award for Professional Excellence.

Prof. Alan Rosen

Prof. Alan Rosen is a lecturer in Holocaust Literature at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem in Israel. He received his Ph.D. in Literature and Religion at Boston University in 1988. His dissertation: "Versions of Catastrophe," was written under the direction of his advisor, Elie Wiesel. Among his recent publications are: "Teach Me Gold": Pedagogy and Memory in The Pawnbroker;" Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 23 (2002); 77-117. "Brooklyn as Refuge: Yaffa Eliach's Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust;" in The Jews of Brooklyn, ed. Ilana Abramovitch and Sean Galvin (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2002).