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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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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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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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?
Office of Visas is called?
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
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"Refuseniks: Heroes of History" Slideshow -- Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement
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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
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