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How to Play the Jew's Harp

For Students 9th - 10th
Very easy to follow instructions on how to play the Jew's harp. Complete with a nice labeled diagram which shows all the parts of the Jew's harp. Provides links for advanced lessons as well.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Murder of Hungarian Jewry

For Students 9th - 10th
In May 1944, Jews in Hungary were deported to Auschwitz. In all, 565,000 Jews were murdered. View artifacts, photos, testimony videos, and documents from this horrendous time in history.
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PBS

Pbs|cet: The Story of the Jews With Simon Schama

For Students 9th - 10th
Simon Schama travels through three thousand years of Jewish history across Europe, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Bermuda, and into the United States. Notable historical data and images are presented through an interactive map.
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Situation of the Jews in Warsaw After the Occupation

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay describing life for the Jewish people living in German occupied Warsaw, Poland.
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Deportation of Austrian and German Jews

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay describing Hitler's policy of deporting the Jewish people from Germany and Austria.
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Lesson Plan
University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: History of the Jews of Turkey [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A document-based question unit for world history regarding the history of the Jewish people of Turkey.
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Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Jewish History Sourcebook: Black Death and the Jews

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by the Jewish History Sourcebook of Fordham University, has information on Jewish persecution resulting from the Black Plague.
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Digital History

Digital History: American Jews

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting look at the Jewish population and culture in America in the 1800s. See how many adapted religious orthodoxy to fit in with American life.
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Jewish Public Library Archives

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Based in Montreal, a city with a rich Canadian-Jewish history, the Jewish Public Library Archives holds material related to Jewish Canadian texts, photographs, posters, rare books and ephemera, and microfilmed Jewish newspapers. The...
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The Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee

For Students 9th - 10th
Providing insight to current issues in the Jewish-Canadian community, this resource provides selections of relevant news articles relating to Jewish issues in Canada. There are also a large collection of web links relating to...
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American Jewish Historical Society: Timeline of American Soviet Jewry Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
In the late 1800's and most of the 1900's countries made many efforts to help Jews in the Soviet Union gain freedom to practice their faith. Countries such as the United States and Israel offered exile to many Jews to escape the...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Transport

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Paul Salitter was a German officer responsible for the transport of 1007 Jews. He was instructed to keep a detailed account of this transport for his superiors. Read his report and juxtapose that with a first-hand account from a Jewish...
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The History Cat

The History Cat: History Trekker: Ellis Island: An Immigrant Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the difficult life of Jews in Russia under Czar Alexander III, one where they faced discrimination and Jewish communities were attacked when pogroms took place. Follow along as a Russian Jew travels to America and is processed...
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Article
University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Conservative Judaism

For Students 9th - 10th
Covers history of the development of the Conservative movement. Also discusses major beliefs of conservative Jews.
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Article
Luminarium

Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature: Christopher Marlowe

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a biography of Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593). He was known as the father of English tragedy; his works include Tamburlaine the Great, Dr Faustus, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, and Edward the Second.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Photographs From the Warsaw Ghetto

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents photos taken in the Warsaw Ghetto that depict different perspectives of the lives of Jews living in this ghetto.
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center: And I Still See Their Faces

For Students 9th - 10th
A melancholy site that speaks of the Polish Jews through their pictures. Pictures were taken before the Holocaust; an entire generation wiped out with nothing left but photographs.
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PBS

Pbs: America and the Holocaust: Kristallnacht

For Students 9th - 10th
From the larger PBS site, America and the Holocaust. This essay describes the atrocities of Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, across Germany. Find out what precipitated the violence against Jews all across Germany, and discover how the...
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Sobibior, the Forgotten Revolt [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A stunning account of the most successful revolt and escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Read about the camp,Sobibor, and how it was set up. Then find out about the plans for escape and how that was carried out. Included are maps,...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Deportation to the Death Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jewish people were packed into cattle cars with no ventilation and no food or water for days on their way to the camps. Many did not survive the deportation. Read a synopsis and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, video...
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PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Before They Perished

For Students 9th - 10th
This unique photography collection found at Birkenau after liberation includes scenes from the everyday life of families while showing the world of Polish Jews before the Holocaust.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Nuremberg Laws: Background and Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a good overview of the Nuremberg Laws, passed in Germany in 1935, that imposed many restrictions on the Jews in Germany before the beginning of World War II.
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PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: "Faith in the Human Spirit Is Not Lost"

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictorial exhibit commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Righteous Program founded by Yad Vashem to honor rescuers who protected Jews from death and deportation during the Holocaust.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Uprooting and Deportation

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...

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