Summary: In this lesson, students will investigate visual images and word samples to learn more about how Jews have lived as a part of and apart from their host communities.
Essential Question(s)
- How have Jewish migrations impacted the expression of Jewish culture,
including language? - To what extent have Jewish communities integrated culturally into the
host cultures of the countries to which they have moved? - What languages have Jews spoken?
Objective:
In this lesson, students will:
- Understand that Jewish communities have experienced tensions
between integration and distinctiveness. - Learn that Jews live and have lived in diverse locations throughout the
world. - Learn that Jews speak and have spoken languages that are both similar
to and distinct from the languages spoken by their non-Jewish
neighbors.
- Arts and Culture
- Belonging
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- History
- Jewish Holidays (Chagim)
- Jewish Peoplehood
- Jewish Tradition
- Pluralism
- Congregational Learning
- Day Schools and Yeshivas
- Teen Engagement
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