Leo L. Honor

Bio: Leo L. Honor is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Judaism & Primary education. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 8 publications receiving 27 citations.

Moral and Spiritual Values in Adult Education From a Jewish Standpoint

Abstract: *From an address at the Pennsylvania State Association for Adult Education at Haverford College, Haverford, Penna., Summer 1952.

The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945-1960

Abstract: Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans' awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts, the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet totalitarianism, Christian and Jewish theological reflections, pioneering scholarly publications, and mass-media portrayals. These early postwar attempts to comprehend the Jewish tragedy within prevailing cultural paradigms provided the foundation for subsequent understandings of that event.

Proverbial Wisdom in Herodotus

Abstract: Herodotus' frequent use of proverbs and other wisdom expressions helps to make his Histories more colorful and gives us insight into the folk wisdom of the past. But do the proverbs in the Histories simply provide enjoyment and exemplify traditional modes of thought, or do they serve a more serious function as well? In this paper I will argue that Herodotus uses proverbial expressions, particularly contradictory gnomai, as part of the presentation of his historical analysis, to help explain the reasons why events turned out the way they did.

Theresienstadt 1941–1945: The Face of a Coerced Community

Abstract: First published in 1955, with a revised edition appearing five years later, H. G. Adler's Theresienstadt, 1941–1945 is a foundational work in the field of Holocaust studies. As the first scholarly monograph to describe the particulars of a single camp - the Jewish ghetto in the Czech city of Terezin - it is the single most detailed and comprehensive account of any concentration camp. Adler, a survivor of the camp, divides the book into three sections: a history of the ghetto, a detailed institutional and social analysis of the camp, and an attempt to understand the psychology of the perpetrators and the victims. A collaborative effort between the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Terezin Publishing Project makes this authoritative text on Holocaust history available for the first time in the English language, with a new afterword by the author's son Jeremy Adler.

Socialization into a Civilization: The Dewey–Kaplan Synthesis in American Jewish Schooling in the Early 20th Century

Abstract: This historical study focuses on how John Dewey's theory of education as socialization and Mordecai Kaplan's theory of Judaism as a civilization together served as an ideological base and pedagogical framework for the creation of “progressive,” “reconstructed” American Jewish school programs in the early 20th century (1910s–1930s). In the main, progressive Jewish educators no longer conceived of Jewish education merely as a program of religious education designed to impart the ways and dictates of Judaism. Rather, Jewish education was conceptualized as a total program of socialization designed to prepare children for active and intelligent participation in American Jewish life.

"Let Us Endeavor to Count Them Up": The Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Jewish Demography

Abstract: Writing in 1852 in his monthly journal, The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, Isaac Leeser asked his readers, “will not our friends . . . favor us with such statistics as may be accessible to them? It is surely worth the trouble to prepare at once correct materials for a future history of American Israelites.”1 For Leeser, and for other nineteenth-century Americans, statistics did not mean the mathematical interpretation of numerical data per se, but rather was a catchall term indicating the collection of descriptive demographic, geographic, and historical facts.2 Beginning in the 1840s, Jewish leaders undertook this work of compilation in earnest in the hopes of reigning in or at the very least classifying the seeming chaos of American Jewish life. As Leeser had complained in 1848: