Lesson plans l Let My People Go, educational program

A variety of lesson plans and activities available below. You can teach one lesson or teach a learning unit using our recommendations.

There are different lessons in Hebrew and in English, due to different material available (books, videos etc). The Hebrew lessons are available HERE

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Slideshows

Introduction to The Soviet Jewry Struggle for Freedom

Before starting to teach about the Soviet Jewry Struggle, we recommend you give this short introduction:

Learning Units

History learning unit - Soviet Jewry Struggle

Introduction to The Soviet Jewry Struggle for Freedom / 10 minutes 1948 (Golda Meir's visit in Moscow) Watch & Discuss: The death of Stali

Learning Units

Civic learning unit - Soviet Jewry Struggle

Suggested lesson plans for an extended learning unit

Slideshows

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

A lesson that encourages critical and independent thinking for students. In this lesson you can use a ready-made presentation that includes

Jewish Calendar

Home-made miracles of Hanukkah

Former prisoner of Zion Yosef Begun, reflects on the holiday, past and present: in Soviet Prison, on his exile to Siberia years later, and f

Films & Videos

Film screening & discussion – Operation Wedding documentary

Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas, plots to “hijack” an empty plane and escape the USSR.

Solidarity

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

The following can be used as a lesson or an activity. The lesson covers some creative protests for Soviet Jewry, that received media attenti

Jewish Calendar

1948: The Need For A Jewish State

when Golda Meir arrived to Moscow in Rosh Hashana 1948, a groundbreaking unexpected event occurred...

Slideshows

Slideshow and writing exercise: Jewish holidays behind the Iron Curtain

there was a real danger in celebrating Jewish holidays - many were arrested without actual crime, and sent to the Gulag under the false accu

Heroism

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

Introduction and background on life in the Soviet Union in the 1970s through the perspective of a young girl. How to stay true to ideals und

Films & Videos

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

The film tells about a group of animals on a farm in England that has a vision - to transform from an "enslaved people" into a "free people"

Slideshows

Crash Course- Refuseniks: Let My People Go!

The lesson was (and will be) given via a slideshow with the strong expectation that none of the students know what a Refusenik is.

Films & Videos

Women of the Refuseniks - video & discussion

The role of the women who stood up in defense of Soviet Jews and those women denied the right to leave the USSR.

Civic Studies

Bring (or Zoom in) Refuseniks or Activists to class

Hear the stories from the source! Invite local Prisoners of Zion, Refuseniks, and Human Rights activist to come and lecture and make history

Films & Videos

Watch & Discuss: Freeing Russian Jewry, The Refuseniks

The video tells the story of Soviet “refuseniks,” Jews in the former Soviet Union who were denied access to emigrate to Israel.

Solidarity

Protesting in the time of Soviet Jewry

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LET MY PEOPLE GO

Lesson plans and activities for educators about the Soviet Jewry Struggle, Refuseniks and Prisoners of Zion 1948-1991

A variety of lesson plans and activities available below. You can teach one lesson or teach a learning unit using our recommendations.

There are different lessons in Hebrew and in English, due to different material available (books, videos etc). The Hebrew lessons are available HERE

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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