Isidoor Bert Hans "Ido" Abram (1940,

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– 14 January 2019), was a Dutch educator and writer on the nature of Jewishness.

Early life

As a small child during

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Abram was an internee in Japanese camps. After liberation his family returned to the Netherlands. Abram studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He was professor of

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

(theory of teaching) at that institute and published on topics regarding Jewish culture and identity, multicultural education and "Education after Auschwitz". He had been the first European professor for "Holocaust Education" since 1990. He developed a model known as the ‘five-slice pie chart’ to illustrate the different ways of being

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. He said there are five aspects that in some way affect the life of every Jew. These are "religion and tradition", "the tie with

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and

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", '"war persecution and survival", "personal history" and the "exchange between Jewish and Dutch cultures". Just how heavily these different aspects weigh on each person individually depends on the place and time in which one lives. During the course of a person’s life the various aspects may alter in importance.

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Arche - Platform for Intercultural Projects in AustriaJewish Historical Museum
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