Jewish History

Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World

By Ateret Cope / Wednesday, March 2, 2022 / Comments Off on Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World

Alongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians, experts, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions.

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Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur

By Ateret Cope / Wednesday, March 2, 2022 / Comments Off on Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur

This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators.

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The “Carlos Project” – Teaching Culture and Language in Your Classroom

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, February 5, 2022 / Comments Off on The “Carlos Project” – Teaching Culture and Language in Your Classroom
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Life of European Jews before WWII: Introduction to Journey With Howard Chandler App

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, February 5, 2022 / Comments Off on Life of European Jews before WWII: Introduction to Journey With Howard Chandler App

This lesson sets the context for the “Journey with Howard Chandler” examining the Jewish communities in Poland before World War II. Howard’s home town of Wierzbnik was one of thousands […]

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All My Mothers

“All My Mothers” – The Story of Yehudith Kleinman

By Ateret Cope / Tuesday, February 1, 2022 / Comments Off on “All My Mothers” – The Story of Yehudith Kleinman

Yehudith Kleinman was born in Venice in 1939; her mother and grandmother moved to Milan shortly thereafter. In January 1944, she was taken to a convent for safety, where she […]

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Childhood Memories

“Memory: A Holocaust Survivor’s Story” film

By Ateret Cope / Tuesday, February 1, 2022 / Comments Off on “Memory: A Holocaust Survivor’s Story” film

This film tells the story of Howard Chandler, an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor. We return to his home village in Poland and visit the concentration camps where he was imprisoned during […]

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antisemitic cartoon

Nazi Ideology as Part of a Continuum of Antisemitism

By Ateret Cope / Tuesday, February 1, 2022 / Comments Off on Nazi Ideology as Part of a Continuum of Antisemitism

Antisemitism existed long before Hitler’s rise to power: Jews had been victims of widespread hatred and suspicion for centuries before. This video explains the historical context of racial antisemitic ideology and […]

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Traveling Trunk

Teaching Trunk Program from Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

By Ateret Cope / Tuesday, February 1, 2022 / Comments Off on Teaching Trunk Program from Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

The Illinois Holocaust Museum’s literature-based teaching trunk program provides K – 12 educators with a wide array of resources for classroom units on character education, human rights, the Holocaust and/or genocide. […]

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Teaching Trunks from the Florida Holocaust Museum

By Ateret Cope / Tuesday, February 1, 2022 / Comments Off on Teaching Trunks from the Florida Holocaust Museum

The Florida Holocaust Museum invites you to use our dynamic trunk curriculum to teach the lessons of the Holocaust. These large teaching trunks, available free of charge, are designed to […]

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Beba Epstein

Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl

By Ateret Cope / Tuesday, February 1, 2022 / Comments Off on Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl

Centered on the autobiography of Beba Epstein written in the 1930’s and discovered in 2017. This exhibit draws on hundreds of YIVO’s archival materials. The exhibition explores East European Jewish […]

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