Developing White paper with standard guidelines, recommendations, and criteria for presenting the Jewish perspective in school textbooks

The General White paper titled Improving School textbooks from a Jewish Perspective- The White Book for European Education Policymakers and Jewish Communities has been inspired by the best practice achieved in Hungary in 2016-2017 and is the result of regional collaboration.

The paper provides a detailed description of the recommended topics to be featured in the European school textbooks. Considering that this project has been based on the Hungarian experiences, we mentioned also the Hungarian specificities that have been accepted. The General White Paper serves as excellent starting point for the schoolbook content revision in the project countries and have the potential to serve as motivation for other countries as well. The recommendation, outlined in the paper help formulate schoolbooks’ content and texts in a way that eliminiates prejudices and present the Jewish tradition, history and contribution of Jewish people before and after the Shoah.

The General White paper is available in Hungarian, English, Polish and Slovakian languages.