Poet Warsan Shire tells the story of a young Somali-born refugee in this poem from the film Brave Girl Rising.
Poet Warsan Shire tells the story of a young Somali-born refugee in this poem from the film Brave Girl Rising.
Introduce students to the four brothers whose partisan unit saved Jewish lives from the forests of Belarus.
Sara Fortis recollects how the partisans addressed one another and the significance of her title captain.
Get insight into how the Jewish Enlightenment affected Jewish women in this memoir excerpt from Pauline Wengeroff.
Read a Jewish partisan’s account of how his unit gained the trust and respect of the local population while resisting the Germans.
Read the chapter of the bible describing Moses' first encounter with God.
Writer Mtutuzeli Matshoba provides a vivid account of life under apartheid through the story of his friend who was forcibly ejected from his home.
Read personal reflections on retaining faith after the Holocaust from Jewish scholars and writers.
Read about the experiences of a Jewish partisan fighting against the Germans in Poland during World War II.
Wislawa Szymborska, a Polish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, describes hatred in a poem.
Zora Neale Hurston describes her sense of identity and experience being a black woman in this 1928 essay.
Author Sarfraz Manzoor writes about the experiences that shaped his understanding of what it means to be British and what it means to belong.