2.11.21 Introduction

• Introduction
• IMAGE ANALYSIS: JEWS & RACE
• “Description of Jews from John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative”  Jews in the Americas, 1776-1826, pp. 390-393. [PDF w/o OCR]
• Eli Rosenblatt (Northwestern University), Alexander de Lavaux’s Map of Surinam (Suriname, 1806)
• Hilit Surowitz-Israel (Rutgers University), The Binding of Isaac (Suriname, 1763)
• Jamboard

In-class activity: finding historical maps. Resources: David Rumsey Map Collection

2.16.21 Caribbean

• Konstantin Dierks, “The Familiar Letter and Social Refinement in America, 1750-1800,” Letter Writing as a Social Practice, ed. David Barton & Nigel Hall, 31-41.
• Judah Cohen (University of Indiana), Hanukkiah (St. Eustatius, 1781)
• Laura Leibman (Reed College), The Rebellion of Rebecca Valverde Gomes (Barbados, 1812)
• Jessica Roitman (KITLV, Leiden), Letter in Papiamentu about Adultery Scandal (Curaçao, 1775)
• Letter of Rachel Pereire to her son Pierre (Bordeaux and Saint Domingue, 1789), p. 141-142 of https://www.jstor.org/stable/4467216

CLOSE READING (Group 2): Choose one of the primary sources listed on the syllabus for the day. Write an object label  for the text and choose what portion of the text you will display in your exhibit. Now create an interactivity using H5P that helps people understand the text better.

2.18.21 East Coast

• Gratz Sisters Letters: The Courtship of Solomon Moses
  • Background on the Courtship (page 2) (page 3)
  • Rachel Gratz’s Letters to Rebecca Gratz (having problems reading her handwriting? try this game I made to help you to learn how to read early American handwriting.)
• Inge Dornan (Brunel University), Abigail Minis’ Tavern (Georgia, 1763-79)
• Holly Snyder (John Hay Library, Brown University), Hetty Hays Complains of a Lack of Proper Kosher Supervision (New York, 1774)
• Deborah Prinz (Independent Scholar), Rebecca Gomez Advertises Chocolate (New York, 1779)
• Laura Leibman (Reed College), Touro Synagogue (Rhode Island, 1763)
• Tony Pitock (Drexel University), Merchant Letters from the Gratz Family (Pennsylvania, 1770)
• Ralph Melnick, “Billy Simons: The Black Jew of Charleston,” American Jewish Archives (1980), 1-6. 
• Jamboard

CLOSE READING (Group 3): Choose one of the primary sources listed on the syllabus for the day. Write an object label  for the text and choose what portion of the text you will display in your exhibit. Now create an interactivity using H5P that helps people understand the text better.

2.23.21 East Coast/Caribbean

• Analyzing Paintings
• Michael Hoberman (Fitchburg State University), Portrait of Rabbi Karigal and Ezra Stiles (Rhode Island, 1771, 1783)
• Dale Rosengarten (College of Charleston), Portraits of Sarah Moses Levy and Chapman Levy (South Carolina, c. 1798)
• Laura Leibman (Reed College), Portraits in Ivory (Barbados, New York, 1820s)
• Edward Sanders (Independent Scholar), A Jewish Statesman and the Peculiar Institution (Mississippi, 1849-1933)
• Jules Lion, Portrait of Asher Moses Nathan and his son c. 1845
• Jamboard

OBJECT ANALYSIS (Group 2): PORTRAITS.  Pick a portrait of a Jew from your city that is in from this era.  Write a brief analysis of the portrait and create an interactivity using H5P that helps people understand the portrait better. Loeb Portrait Database.

2.25.21 East Coast/Caribbean

• Penina Moise, “Rejection of the Jew Bill,” (p. 212) “A Funeral Chant for David Arariu–The Hero of Damascus” (p.272) [also in low res pdf]
• “Speeches, Newspaper Articles…Vestry Bill” (Barbados 1819-20), Jews in the Americas, 1776-1826, pp. 328-344. [also pdf not OCR]
• Dana Rabin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Petition Solicited by the Jamaican Assembly (Jamaica, 1750)
• Laura Leibman (Reed College), Mordecai Manuel Noah on “Africans” (New York, 1821) [CW: racist caricatures]
• Michael Hoberman (Fitchburg State University), Petition for Civil Rights (Canada, 1831)
• Jackie Ranston (Independent Scholar), Belisario’s Sketches of Character (Jamaica, 1837-1838)
• Jamboard

IN-CLASS ACTIVITY: Sum up this era or the previous one using H5P.