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Booking a tour is easy. Space is limited, so please make your reservation
as soon as possible. We look forward to welcoming you and your students
at the Museum.
General Tours
Special Exhibition Tours
Pre- and Post-Visit Lessons
Scheduling a School Visit
The following programs are currently available to school and youth groups
in grades K-12:
General Tours
My House to Your House: Community Life from Generation to Generation
Discover the role of family and community life in transmitting cultural
heritage. Students will examine treasured objects and daily rituals, making connections between Jewish traditions and other traditions. This
program is designed as an introduction to Jewish heritage as well as the
broader theme of cultural identity, and it provides a useful supplement
to multicultural studies.
(Available for grades K-6)
Love Thy Neighbor: Immigration and the U.S. Experience
Learn about the Jewish immigrant experience, primarily in the United States,
through the exploration of language, work, community, and social activism.
Throughout the program, students are encouraged to make comparisons with
other immigration experiences, as well as to think about prejudice and
tolerance. Middle and high school students will also consider immigration
issues specifically related to the Holocaust.
(Available for grades 3-12)
Israel and the Diaspora
Examine the complex relationship between the two main centers of Jewish
life: the United States and Israel. Explore how Jewish communities in
each country have helped and benefited from each other, looking at Zionism,
immigration, innovation, and diversity in Jewish life in the 20th century.
Designed especially for Jewish day schools, the tour raises central questions
about what it means to be a Jew in America today.
(Available for grades 3-12)
Building a Bayit: There's No Place Like Home
This program is designed for students from Jewish day and supplementary schools. Students are encouraged to think about Jewish concepts of home and how they have been challenged and maintained through the generations. These ideas are explored through personal artifacts, video testimonies, and interactive discussion. Middle and high school students will also investigate the strategies Jews used before, during, and after the Holocaust to sustain a sense of home, community, and religious life.
(Available for grades 3-12)
Highlights of the Museum Exhibition
This overview of 20th century Jewish life gives students an opportunity to view some of the most treasured artifacts in our Museum. When requesting this program, please specify whether or not you feel that a visit to our second floor Holocaust exhibits would be appropriate for the age and maturity level of your group.
(Available for grades 3-12)
Coming of Age During the Holocaust,
Coming of Age Now
In preparing for a bar or bat mitzvah, a young person is preparing to become a fully recognized member of the Jewish community. What does it mean to be a part of the Jewish community? What responsibilities are involved? The Museum is pleased to present a special tour and curriculum for bar and bat mitzvah students to discuss these questions. This Museum tour presents artifacts that focus on the stories of young people who lived during the Holocaust, and begins a dialogue in the Museum galleries on the themes of Jewish identity, community, and responsibility. This tour is most valuable when planned in conjunction with use of the Coming of Age curriculum in the classroom. The curriculum includes a Teacher’s Guide, student workbooks presenting the stories of 13 young people who came of age during the Holocaust, and DVDs of testimony from these survivors. Click here for more information.
Our Jewish Heritage
This tour is designed for students in Catholic middle and high schools. Students will explore how Jewish practice today is rooted in ancient sources that are significant to both Jews and Catholics. Students will discuss and compare Jewish and Catholic understandings of the Bible and their rituals and ceremonies. Students in the upper grades will also explore the ways in which individuals and communities use their personal and communal values to respond to challenges throughout history.
(Available for grades 3-12)
Meeting Hate with Humanity: Life During the Holocaust
Examine the impact of World War II and the Nazi genocide on Jewish lives
and communities in Europe. Participants will explore issues of continuity
of cultural identity, responsibility to community, and decision-making.
This program also includes an investigation of the ways in which individuals
and nations responded, or failed to respond, to the crisis. Discussion of key events in this catastrophic
period is preceded by an introduction to Jewish heritage and concludes
with a conversation about social justice.
(Available for grades 6-12)
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Special Exhibition Tours
Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust
A tour of the Museum’s special exhibition Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust will introduce students to artifacts that allow them to explore the range of Jewish responses in defiance and resistance of the Nazis during the Holocaust, including acts to maintain dignity, document the unimaginable, save lives, and resist with arms. Click here for more information about the exhibition.
(Available for grades 6-12)
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Pre- and Post-Visit Lessons
The Museum offers pre- and post-visit lessons in its multimedia classrooms. The programs are scheduled to last forty-five minutes. Student analysis of primary documents is an important feature of these pre-visit lessons, which are designed to deepen students' understanding of pertinent issues. The Museum can also arrange for your class to hear a Holocaust survivor or WWII veteran speak about his or her experiences, as part of a pre- or post-visit.
All of Ours To Fight For: Americans in the Second World War Teacher's Guide
The two sections of the Teacher's Guide augment and extend the exhibition workbook and Museum visit. The resources section provides a chronology, glossary, bibliography, list of films, and websites. The activities section contains a series of questions and activities aligned with National Standards and New York State Core Curriculum. Learn more.
Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust Teacher’s Guide
The Teacher’s Guide for the Museum’s special exhibition Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust provides pre- and post-visit lessons that allow students to explore the range of Jewish responses in defiance and resistance of the Nazis during the Holocaust, including acts to maintain dignity, document the unimaginable, save lives, and resist with arms. Also includes information about the exhibition, lesson plans designed specifically for Jewish schools, and a list of additional resources. Click here to download a free pdf copy.
Meeting Hate with Humanity Pre- and Post-Visits
Available through the Lipper Intern School Partnership Program,
our college interns conduct a pre-visit session in the classroom, guide the students through the Museum where the students learn first hand from our exhibitions, and follow up with a post-visit session in the classroom. This program is available on a limited basis for public middle and high schools throughout the Northeast.
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Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By
This interactive workshop extends your students' visit to the Museum by offering an opportunity to think about genocide and activism today. Exploring the Museum's theme of social justice, students conclude their tour by engaging in Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By, a lesson about genocide in Darfur. Museum Educators provide background on the political and historical situation in Darfur and guide students through a close analysis of photographs, drawings by Darfuri children, and text. Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By provides the basis for meaningful reflection on the ongoing crisis in Darfur and its terrible toll on civilian life. Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By encourages students to consider implications of what they learned in the Museum and how to apply these lessons to their own lives. Workshops are conducted in the Museum's classrooms.
(Available for grades 6-12)
Speakers Bureau
Arrange for your class to hear a Holocaust survivor or WWII veteran speak about his or her experiences, as part of a pre- or post-visit, through the Speakers Bureau.
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