Navigating Jewish American Identity

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Video
Lesson

In this lesson, students will watch and respond to a video clip from the film American Creed in which historian and author David Kennedy draws from W. E. B. Du Bois’ idea of “twoness” to explore the tensions that can exist when an individual’s American identity and their religious, ethnic, racial, and other identities are at odds with one another.

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Topic
  • History
Setting
  • After School and Beyond
  • Congregational Learning
  • Day Schools and Yeshivas
  • Camp
  • Teen Engagement

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