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Living Museum® is now online. We’ve taken our popular Living Museum classroom program and made it an interactive website and curriculum enabling students to create online museums of artifacts that represent their Jewish heritage. Click here to visit our online Living Museum. Workshops for Teachers
Sephardic Jews and the Holocaust Sunday, June 15, 2008 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm In this seminar we will study the fate of Sephardic Jews during the Holocaust and how that fate has ramifications for Jewish identity today. To register for any of the STAJE seminars please contact Dr. Paul Radensky, Museum Educator for Jewish Schools at 646.437.4310 or by e-mail at pradensky@mjhnyc.org. These seminars are made possible by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany: The Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation and Education Liberation and the Aftermath of the Holocaust: A Three Day STAJE Seminar for Educators in Jewish Schools 10:00 am to 4:00 pm July 7-9, 2008 The liberation of the concentration and labor camps was the beginning of a new life for the survivors of the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism and sovietization in Eastern Europe led many Jews to flee to the West where they created dynamic, if temporary communities in the Displaced Persons camps in Germany and elsewhere. Afterwards, survivors rebuilt their lives in Israel, the United States and Europe. Study this transition with leading scholars and listen to testimony exploring the questions and dilemmas Jews faced as they entered and built the postwar world. The STAJE Summer Seminar is free, but admission is by application. For an application or more information, please contact Dr. Paul Radensky, Museum Educator for Jewish Schools, at (646) 437-4310 or pradensky@mjhnyc.org. Applications are due June 20, 2008. A light lunch will be provided (dietary laws observed) each day of the seminar. Public transportation or parking will be reimbursed up to $17 per person or vehicle per day. This program is made possible by the generous support of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany: Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation and Education.
Specially designed student workbooks are available for all of our tours. Ask about our pre- and post-visit activities. Meeting Hate with Humanity explores the many ways that Jews affirmed their cultural and religious identities before World War II, and examines how individuals and communities in Europe responded to Nazi terror and the Holocaust. Students will consider the many different responses to the crisis, as Jews tried to preserve their dignity and humanity in the face of persecution, and discuss the challenges and changes that emerged in the post-Holocaust world. The Museum is fortunate to have Holocaust survivors available to meet with students to answer questions and continue the discussion of topics explored on the tour. (For middle and high school students) Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust A tour of the Museum’s special exhibition Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust will introduce students to artifacts that allow them to explore the range of Jewish responses in defiance and resistance during the Holocaust, including acts to maintain dignity, document the unimaginable, save lives, and resist with arms. Click here for more information about the exhibition. (For middle and high school students) Coming of Age During the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now A tour for bar and bat mitzvah students that focuses on the artifacts and stories of young people who came of age during the Holocaust. The tour engages students in a dialogue in the Museum galleries on the themes of Jewish identity, community, and responsibility. There are 13 stops on the tour, symbolic of the bar mitzvah. The tour may be combined with classroom study using the Coming of Age curriculum (see below for further info).
Shoah Teaching Alternatives in Jewish Education (STAJE) This STAJE Institute and Coming of Age are made possible through the leadership support of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. - The Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation and Education. Coming of Age tour and curriculum The Coming of Age tour presents artifacts that focus on the stories of young people who lived during the Holocaust, and begins a dialogue in the Museum galleries on the themes of Jewish identity, community, and responsibility. There are 13 stops on the tour, symbolic of the bar mitzvah. The Coming of Age curriculum provides the resources for in-depth Holocaust study in the classroom with bar and bat mitzvah students. The curriculum includes a Teacher’s Guide, student workbooks presenting the stories of 13 young people who came of age during the Holocaust, and DVDs of testimony from these survivors, some in English and some in Hebrew with subtitles. Through the curriculum, students are guided through reading and writing activities to reflect on the challenges these survivors faced in maintaining their Jewish identities, the responsibilities they undertook for their families, the sacrifices they made for others, and the lessons that survivors want to teach the next generation as a result of their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. As a result of studying this curriculum, students grow in their understanding of the Holocaust, and of themselves. If you are interested in the Coming of Age tour and/or curriculum, please contact Nili Allyn Isenberg at 646-437-4308 or nisenberg@mjhnyc.org. The Coming of Age curriculum is a project of the Museum in collaboration with Yad LaYeled - The Ghetto Fighters’ Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum in Israel. A generous grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany: The Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation and Education enabled the collaboration for the development of this material. Living Museum® The program begins with a visit to the Museum, where museum educators work with students to develop the practice of learning through artifacts. A series of exercises examine the principles of display, providing context for, and labeling artifacts. Following the visit students begin their independent research, learning about their family histories and writing about important heirlooms, photographs, and other artifacts and primary documents from their own past. The culminating event is the presentation of a mini-museum curated by students at their own school that highlights their Jewish heritage, providing an exciting opportunity to share student learning with the extended school community. Living Museum Online The online Living Museum teaches middle school students and their teachers to curate their own museums. The Living Museum helps middle school students form a personal connection to modern Jewish history by showing how their lives and their families fit into the modern Jewish experience. Click here to view the Living Museum.
Students begin the project by visiting a museum and learning how museums are organized. They then interview their families and select an artifact that represents their family and their Jewish heritage. The learning continues in the classroom as students write their own artifact labels and organize their artifacts into galleries. These artifacts and galleries come alive as student curate online and in-school exhibitions of their work. This exciting expansion of the Living Museum (described above) has been made possible through generous funding from The Covenant Foundation. The online Living Museum enables students to share the results of their research with the world! Click here to visit our online Living Museum.
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