Early Modern Europe [1400 - 1700]

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Membership, Identity and Traditional Jewish Texts locked

This lesson was developed as part of Kesher, Facing History's Jewish Education project. This lesson explores questions of ostracism, peer pressure, inclusion and exclusion, and what causes people to act in ways that they later regret.
Lesson Plan03/16/2008 - 11:37

Obedience and Traditional Jewish Texts: The Milgram Experiment locked

This lesson explores questions of obedience, and why people may participate in something against their conscience or harm others even against their will. It centers on an experiment about obedience performed by Stanley Milgram at Yale in the 1960's, described in Holocaust and Human Behavior.
Lesson Plan03/16/2008 - 20:52

The Jews of Poland

Facing History and Ourselves: The Jews of Poland considers the ways Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors in Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe responded to questions of identity, membership, and difference at various times in their shared history.
Publication03/09/2008 - 13:14
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