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Living Museum® is now online. We’ve taken our popular Living Museum classroom program and made it an interactive website and curriculum enabling students to create online museums of artifacts that represent their Jewish heritage. Click here to visit our online Living Museum. To read about the Interfaith Living Museum in the New York Times, click here. Workshops for Teachers
Women and the Holocaust - A Three Day STAJE Seminar for Educators in Jewish Schools 9:45 am to 4:15 pm July 6-8, 2009
Although Jewish women largely shared the same ultimate fate as did Jewish men during the Holocaust, their experiences were often different. At times when men were unable to work or were unavailable, women added to their traditional roles to become breadwinners and diplomats with a hostile world. Women also played leading roles in every sort of resistance. To the extent possible, women took advantage of the few opportunities their gender afforded, but gender and gender-defined roles were also liabilities. Study with leading scholars and listen to inspiring testimony about the heroic efforts of Jewish women to maintain themselves and their families with dignity during the Holocaust The STAJE Summer Seminar is free, but admission is by application. Applications are due June 19, 2009. Click here for an application. A light lunch will be provided (dietary laws observed) each day of the seminar. Public transportation or parking will be reimbursed up to $17 per person or vehicle per day. For more information please contact Dr. Paul Radensky, Museum Educator for Jewish Schools, at (646) 437-4310 or pradensky@mjhnyc.org. This program is made possible by the generous support of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany: Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation and Education.
Specially designed student workbooks are available for all of our tours. Ask about our pre- and post-visit activities. Meeting Hate with Humanity explores the many ways that Jews affirmed their cultural and religious identities before World War II, and examines how individuals and communities in Europe responded to Nazi terror and the Holocaust. Students will consider the many different responses to the crisis, as Jews tried to preserve their dignity and humanity in the face of persecution, and discuss the challenges and changes that emerged in the post-Holocaust world. The Museum is fortunate to have Holocaust survivors available to meet with students to answer questions and continue the discussion of topics explored on the tour. (For middle and high school students)
Shoah Teaching Alternatives in Jewish Education (STAJE) This STAJE Institute and Coming of Age are made possible through the leadership support of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. - The Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation and Education. Coming of Age During the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now is a tour for bar and bat mitzvah students that focuses on the artifacts and stories of young people who came of age during the Holocaust. The tour engages students in a dialogue in the Museum galleries on the themes of Jewish identity, community, and responsibility. There are 13 stops on the tour, symbolic of the bar mitzvah. The tour may be combined with classroom study using the Coming of Age curriculum. Click here for more information. Living Museum® The program begins with a visit to the Museum, where museum educators work with students to develop the practice of learning through artifacts. A series of exercises examine the principles of display, providing context for, and labeling artifacts. Following the visit students begin their independent research, learning about their family histories and writing about important heirlooms, photographs, and other artifacts and primary documents from their own past. The culminating event is the presentation of a mini-museum curated by students at their own school that highlights their Jewish heritage, providing an exciting opportunity to share student learning with the extended school community. Living Museum Online The online Living Museum teaches middle school students and their teachers to curate their own museums. The Living Museum helps middle school students form a personal connection to modern Jewish history by showing how their lives and their families fit into the modern Jewish experience. Click here to view the Living Museum.
Students begin the project by visiting a museum and learning how museums are organized. They then interview their families and select an artifact that represents their family and their Jewish heritage. The learning continues in the classroom as students write their own artifact labels and organize their artifacts into galleries. These artifacts and galleries come alive as student curate online and in-school exhibitions of their work. This exciting expansion of the Living Museum (described above) has been made possible through generous funding from The Covenant Foundation. The online Living Museum enables students to share the results of their research with the world! Click here to visit our online Living Museum.
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