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Education And Resources

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Program & Activity Ideas

If you would like to submit a program activity or idea please email Abby Schwartz.

 

Visit your local library or video store and check out a movie from this list to watch with your family and friends in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month.

  • American Tail
  • Bugsy
  • Crossing Delancey
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Driving Miss Daisy
  • Funny Girl
  • Gentleman’s Agreement
  • Hester Street
  • Marjorie Morningstar
  • The Chosen
  • The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
  • The Jazz Singer
  • The Way We Were
  • Woody Allen films
  • Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
  • The First Basket: A Jewish Basketball Documentary

Visit your local library or bookstore for these great
books for adults:

  • American Jewish History by Norman H. Finkelstein
  • Jews in America by David Gantz
  • From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books by Arie Kaplan
  • The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America by Beth Wenger
  • Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American Experience by Norman H. Finkelstein
  • From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America, by Michael W. Grunberger (ed.), Hasia R. Diner (ed.), Leonard Dinnerstein (author), Eli Evans (author)
  • American Judaism: A History by Jonathan Sarna

Visit your local library or bookstore for these
great children’s books:

  • Molly’s Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
  • Like a Maccabee by Barbara Bietz
  • Portraits of Jewish American Heroes by Malka Drucker
  • The Rebecca Books: American Girl by Jacqueline Dembar Greene
  • When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street by Elsa Okon Roel
  • What Zeesie Saw on Delancey Street by Elsa Okon Roel
  • The Yankee at the Seder by Elka Weber

Encourage your local library or bookstore to feature books about Jewish Americans during the month of May.

Organize a walking tour of Jewish sites in your community.

Conduct research in your temple or synagogue archives and plan a program in May to share your findings about the history of your congregation. Involve children and adults in the project.

Make up a Jewish American Heritage trivia contest in your workplace using Tell Me a Story and the Historical Timeline on this website. Here are a few questions to get you started:

  • Which Jewish American wrote the song “God Bless America”?
  • Which Yankee slugger was known as “The Kosher Bomber”?
  • Who was the first Jewish woman to serve in the United States Congress?
  • Which Jewish American invented blue jeans?
  • Which Jewish American businesswoman launched the pink ribbon symbol as the universal emblem of breast health?

 
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