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Obedience and Traditional Jewish Texts: The Milgram Experiment

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This lesson explores questions of obedience, and why people may participate in something against their conscience or harm others even against their will. It centers on an experiment about obedience performed by Stanley Milgram at Yale in the 1960's, described in Holocaust and Human Behavior. It is an important lesson in helping students connect the historical case study to issues relevant in their own lives.