_Middle SchoolIntroduction to The Soviet Jewry Struggle for FreedomBefore starting to teach about the Soviet Jewry Struggle, we recommend you give this short introduction:
Learning UnitsHistory learning unit - Soviet Jewry StruggleIntroduction to The Soviet Jewry Struggle for Freedom / 10 minutes 1948 (Golda Meir's visit in Moscow) Watch & Discuss: The death of Stali
Learning UnitsCivic learning unit - Soviet Jewry StruggleSuggested lesson plans for an extended learning unit
Music and PoetryHebrew 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
Films & VideosFilm screening & discussion – Operation Wedding documentaryLeningrad, 1970. A group of young Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas, plots to “hijack” an empty plane and escape the USSR.
Music and PoetryThe longing for Zion - songs, videos and discussionsThe spiritual connection between world Jewry: how Soviet Jewry inspired Jews in the free world to make Aliyah. Talk about the role, influenc
SlideshowsHow to identify fake news of today from fake news of past Soviet media - Slideshow & DiscussA lesson that encourages critical and independent thinking for students. In this lesson you can use a ready-made presentation that includes
SlideshowsSlideshow and writing exercise: Jewish holidays behind the Iron Curtainthere was a real danger in celebrating Jewish holidays - many were arrested without actual crime, and sent to the Gulag under the false accu
Films & Videos1948: The Need For A Jewish State (Golda Meir's visit in Moscow)when Golda Meir arrived to Moscow in 1948, a groundbreaking unexpected event occurred...
Music and PoetrySing 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.
SolidarityActivity: 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
HeroismRead & 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
SlideshowsThe Secrets of Israel -Slideshow & guided discussionIn this lesson we will discuss secret activities of the Israeli government - in retrospect, was it right to keep a secret or not?
StatisticCalculated Discussion: Permission To Leave ParadiseWith a rare combination of basic mathematics and history, we will explain the *USSR’s line of thought regarding the exit of citizens
Art and DramaInterpretation of paintings and posters on a Jewish struggle in the USSRPaintings and illustrations of prisoners of Zion and those who refused to immigrate to the USSR communicate with artists in the free world w
Films & VideosWomen of the Refuseniks - video & discussionThe role of the women who stood up in defense of Soviet Jews and those women denied the right to leave the USSR.
HeroismThe Refuseniks and Operation WeddingWe had a lively discussion about whether or not my students would have done the same, knowing they would be arrested?
Civic StudiesBring (or Zoom in) Refuseniks or Activists to classHear the stories from the source! Invite local Prisoners of Zion, Refuseniks, and Human Rights activist to come and lecture and make history
Films & VideosWatch & Discuss: Freeing Russian Jewry, The RefuseniksThe video tells the story of Soviet “refuseniks,” Jews in the former Soviet Union who were denied access to emigrate to Israel.
ActivitiesCrossword: Struggle to Free Soviet Jewryan economic method in which everything belongs to everyone, that is, to the state is? Office of Visas is called?
Jewish CalendarHome-made miracles of HanukkahFormer prisoner of Zion Yosef Begun, reflects on the holiday, past and present: in Soviet Prison, on his exile to Siberia years later, and f
Jewish CalendarThe death of Stalin in Purim 1953, compared to HamanWhat 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 CalendarNext Year In... Moscow ? - The Red HaggadahA special Haggadah was written and distributed in the USSR in which the cry for revolution, not Jerusalem, was was brought to the table.
Jewish CalendarSharansky'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.