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Kehillot haOlam: Experiencing the World Through the Jewish Holidays
High School (Grades 9-12)
A year long high school curriculum by Michelle Blumenthal that explores Sephardi, Mizrahi, Ethiopian, Indian, and other Jewish communities through how they celebrate the Jewish holidays.
Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews (Fowler Museum at UCLA)
High School (Grades 9-12)
A curriculum from the Fowler Museum at UCLA that explores more than 2,500 years of Jewish life in Iran through objects, art, and history, from ancient Persia to Los Angeles today.
Middle Eastern and North African Jewish Cuisine
Elementary School (Grades K-5)
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Students taste and trace the dishes of Jewish communities from Morocco to Iran and discover how geography, religious practice, and migration carried family recipes to Israel and the world.
My Spanish Bosnian Life: The Montiljo Family of Sarajevo (Centropa)
High School (Grades 9-12)
A Centropa film lesson about Hana Montiljo Gasic, born in 1940 into a Sephardic family in Sarajevo, exploring migration, the Holocaust in Bosnia, and the rescue of the Sarajevo Haggadah.
Open Your Hand! Hamsa
Elementary School (Grades K-5)
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Students explore the hamsa, the open hand symbol cherished by Jews and Muslims across the Middle East and North Africa, and discover how Jewish tradition connects the open hand to generosity.
Oral Histories
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Students listen to the testimonies of Jews from Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Morocco, learn to read oral history the way historians do, and honor each speaker with an acrostic poem built on evidence.
Our Names Our Identity
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Students uncover the stories behind their own names, explore Sephardic and Mizrahi naming traditions, and examine what happens to identity when immigrants keep, change, or lose their names.
Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewish Music
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
High School (Grades 9-12)
Students listen to piyutim, the sung Hebrew poems of Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewish communities, compare traditional and modern performances, and discover how this music became part of Israeli popular culture.
Sephardic Jewish History and Culture in Spain and Beyond (Posen Library)
High School (Grades 9-12)
College/Adult
A four class module by Ronnie Perelis of Yeshiva University that uses primary sources from the Posen Library to trace Sephardic Jews from medieval Spain to Amsterdam and the Atlantic world.
Sephardic Journeys: Literature, Memory, and Jewish Culture (Posen Library)
High School (Grades 9-12)
College / Adult
A four class module by Karen Skinazi of Hebrew Union College exploring Sephardic and Mizrahi women writers, Mizrahi identity, memoirs of the Middle East and North Africa, and food stories.
Sephardic Storyteller
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Students hear Jewish folktales from Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt and discover the values they pass down.
SHMLearn: The Syrian Jewish Community (Sephardic Heritage Museum)
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
High School (Grades 9-12)
Lessons from the Sephardic Heritage Museum built around a seven part documentary on the Syrian Jewish community, from Aleppo and Damascus to Brooklyn and the rescue of Syria’s last Jews.
Survival in Sarajevo: Friendship in a Time of War (Centropa)
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
High School (Grades 9-12)
A Centropa documentary and lesson plans about how Sarajevo’s Sephardic Jewish community turned its synagogue into an aid center for all its neighbors during the Bosnian war.
The Cairo Genizah
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
High School (Grades 9-12)
Students investigate real documents from a thousand year old synagogue storeroom in Cairo and discover what ordinary letters, contracts and lessons reveal about Jewish life in the medieval Islamic world.
The Farhud: What Happened to Iraq’s Jews? (Unpacked)
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
High School (Grades 9-12)
A 13 minute Unpacked video on the Farhud, the 1941 pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad, and the end of a Jewish community more than 2,500 years old.