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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
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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
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Introduction to The Soviet Jewry Struggle for Freedom
Before starting to teach about the Soviet Jewry Struggle, we recommend you give this short introduction:
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
Civic learning unit - Soviet Jewry Struggle
Suggested lesson plans for an extended learning unit
Sharansky's matzah in Soviet Solitary confinement
The Haggadah's words were felt as KGB agents surrounded them. Later he would "celebrate" Passover in the Gulag.
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
Next Year In... Moscow ? - The Red Haggadah
A special Haggadah was written and distributed in the USSR in which the cry for revolution, not Jerusalem, was was brought to the table.
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.
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
1948: The Need For A Jewish State
when Golda Meir arrived to Moscow in Rosh Hashana 1948, a groundbreaking unexpected event occurred...
Calculated Discussion: Permission To Leave Paradise
With a rare combination of basic mathematics and history, we will explain the *USSR’s line of thought regarding the exit of citizens
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
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
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"
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.
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
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.
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