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Interpreting the Works of Samuel Bak
In this unit students experience how art can serve as a tool to understanding history by analyzing paintings by renowned artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak.
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Teaching Schindler's List
Help your students be thoughtful, engaged viewers of Schindler's List with these lesson plans that foster reflection and make contemporary connections to the history.
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A Jew is Not One Thing
Jewish identity has many facets. This film explores the complexity and contradiction inherent in a diverse community.
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Transforming Germany in the 1930s
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Art as Propaganda: The Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibit
Jonathan Petropoulos discusses the importance of the German 1937 Degenerate Art exhibit.
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Combining Jewish Tradition with Science: Kathy Reynolds
Kathy Reynolds describes the project for which she won a Margot Stern Strom Award.
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Elaine Pagels, Professor of Religion, Discusses Evil in the Context of the History of Religion
Elaine Pagels, Professor of Religion at Princeton University,explains that many interpretations of evil throughout history are inspired by the Book of Revelation.
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Every Day the Impossible: Jewish Women in the Partisans
Former Jewish partisans reflect on women's participation in organized resistance groups during the Holocaust.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Faith in Chaos- Pep Bonet and Sara Terry
This video profiles Pep Bonet’s and Sara Terry’s photo exhibition on the amputees resulting from the civil war in Sierra Leone.
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Illuminations: The Art of Samuel Bak
Samuel Bak explains his life growing up in Vilna, and explores his art as it relates to Facing History
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Importance of Arms
Former Jewish partisan Aron Bell describes how weapons were essential to the life of a partisan.
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Introduction to the Jewish Partisans
Former Jewish partisans discuss the goals, challenges, and personal motives of the Jews who resisted the Germans.
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