Teaching Israel and Palestine with Max Lazar

Dr. Max Lazar is a social studies teacher and department chair at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School in NYC. He earned his doctorate in history from U.N.C. Chapel-Hill. His dissertation focused on Jewish integration in Frankfurt between 1914-1938. Max teaches a course called "Dual Narratives" at the Heschel School and he shares his insights and experience providing a balanced historical approach to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict to students at a pluralistic Jewish high school.

 

Resources recommended by Max:

Zionism: A Short History of a Big Idea by David Engel

The Third Way: A Journal of Life in the West Bank by Raja Shehadeh

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everybody Needs to Know by Dov Waxman

City on a Hilltop by Sara Yael Hirschhorn