Introduction to The Soviet Jewry Struggle for Freedom
A variety of lesson plans and activities available below. You can teach one lesson or teach a learning unit using our recommendations.
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There are different lessons in Hebrew and in English, due to different material available (books, videos etc). The Hebrew lessons are available HERE




History learning unit - Soviet Jewry Struggle


Civic learning unit - Soviet Jewry Struggle

Women of the Refuseniks - video & discussion


Activity: Present & Protest: get inspired by creative and non-violent 70's protests


How to identify fake news of today from fake news of past Soviet media - Slideshow & Discuss


Calculated Discussion: Permission To Leave Paradise

Read & discuss: 13 year old against the KGB (short story)


The Secrets of Israel -Slideshow & guided discussion


The death of Stalin in Purim 1953, compared to Haman


Slideshow and writing exercise: Jewish holidays behind the Iron Curtain


Film screening & discussion – Operation Wedding documentary


Sharansky's matzah in Soviet Solitary confinement


Next Year In... Moscow ? - The Red Haggadah

The longing for Zion - songs, videos and discussions


1948: The Need For A Jewish State (Golda Meir's visit in Moscow on Rosh HaShana)

Bring (or Zoom in) Refuseniks or Activists to class

Sing in Hebrew, “Blue and White are the colors of my land"

Crash Course- Refuseniks: Let My People Go!


Watch & Discuss: Freeing Russian Jewry, The Refuseniks

Protesting in the time of Soviet Jewry

Power of Protest - the movement to free Soviet Jewry


The growth of the communist regime in George Orwell's "Animal Farm"


Interpretation of paintings and posters on a Jewish struggle in the USSR


The Refuseniks and Operation Wedding


Crossword: Struggle to Free Soviet Jewry

Summary activity - between the lines
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[Tisha B’Av] Hebrew poetry & song (adv): Won’t you ask after, O Zion, the weal of your captive?


"Children's Tale" - slideshow on Jewish children in the USSR - American Soviet Jewry


Home-made miracles of Hanukkah


"Refuseniks: Heroes of History" Slideshow -- Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement

Let My People Go was created and designed by
Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov for Nativ - PrimeMinster Office
