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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.

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

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

#OnlineLessons #CivicStudies #Discussions #Videos #Music #MiddleSchool #HighSchool A personal word about the lesson...

Statistic

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

Art and Drama

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

Paintings and illustrations of prisoners of Zion and those who refused to immigrate to the USSR communicate with artists in the free world w

Music and Poetry

Longing for Zion - songs, videos and discussions

The spiritual connection between world Jewry: how Soviet Jewry inspired Jews in the free world to make Aliyah. Talk about the role, influenc

Heroism

The Refuseniks and Operation Wedding

We had a lively discussion about whether or not my students would have done the same, knowing they would be arrested?

Slideshows

The Secrets of Israel -Slideshow & guided discussion

In this lesson we will discuss secret activities of the Israeli government - in retrospect, was it right to keep a secret or not?

Jewish Calendar

The death of Stalin in Purim 1953, compared to Haman

What similarities can you draw between the Purim story from of the Book of Esther and Stalin’s Jews persecution, which ended with his death?

Jewish Calendar

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.

Jewish Calendar

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.

Music and Poetry

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

A music lesson: sing in Hebrew (beginner), and discuss the lyrics meaning and source.

Music and Poetry

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

Associated with the tragedy of Tisha B’Av — the long Jewish exile — and its grand Zionist “correction” with the emergence of the State of Is

Activities

Crossword: Struggle to Free Soviet Jewry

an economic method in which everything belongs to everyone, that is, to the state is? Office of Visas is called?

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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עיצוב אתר: ענת זלמנסון קוזניצוב 2020

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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