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The representation of the Jewish People in primary educationIn 2002, teaching the Holocaust became an integral part of the primary school curriculum. Introducing this chapter of contemporary history to primary-school children was generally welcomed. But did all those who approve actually read the Ministry of Education instructions to see how the subject would be introduced to young pupils ? Did they examine the prepared materials ? Could there be other means of teaching the Holocaust to eight-to-ten-year-olds than through a discussion of morality that is essentially based on emotion and on identifying with the victims ?The difficulty in teaching the Holocaust lies in the fact that, unlike Christians and Muslims, the Jews, as a people, a culture and a Diaspora, were subject to centuries of hatred and persecution, and forced to struggle to survive but had not featured in any history curriculum.The question therefore is : how does one study the actual history of the Jews and avoid turning a discussion of the Jews as victims into a mere issue of human rights ?