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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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Protesting in the time of Soviet Jewry
#OnlineLessons #CivicStudies #Discussions #Videos #Music #MiddleSchool #HighSchool A personal word about the lesson...
Power of Protest - the movement to free Soviet Jewry
This unit discusses what it means to protest—and more specifically, what it means to empathize with those in need, and how empathizing can l
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
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?
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?
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[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
Crossword: Struggle to Free Soviet Jewry
an economic method in which everything belongs to everyone, that is, to the state is?
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Summary activity - between the lines
Русский עברית #Activity #MiddleSchool The activity is suitable for students in grades 4-8, after studying at least one unit...
"Children's Tale" - slideshow on Jewish children in the USSR - American Soviet Jewry
The full lesson will be available soon! Sign up for updates #OnlineLessons #AntiSemitism #Slideshow #Discussions ...
"Refuseniks: Heroes of History" Slideshow -- Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement
The full lesson will be available soon! Sign up for updates #OnlineLessons #Discussions #CivicStudies #AntiSemitism ...
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
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.
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?
Purim Musical Play: THE STORY OF ESTHER
The events of this musical belong to history. It is a very recent
history, yet it happened in a world that is gone.
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.
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.
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