Alyssa Feigelson is a history senior who has recently submitted her application to rabbinical school! She’s a Gemini sun, Virgo rising, Cancer moon vegetarian. She is writing her thesis on Jewish women and the Reform movement in California during the 19th century and is very excited to learn about Jewish communities she hasn’t studied before across the Americas! (painting is by Vittorio Regiannini who drew women in gorgeous dresses making fun of men)

Learning goals:

1. To understand how Jewish identity shifts based on diasporic location
2. To learn about the Jewish relationship with power in a colonized land (as the colonizers and as an oppressed minority)
3. To learn what they deemed important enough to write about and remember for future generations about their lives.

Assignment Links

• Link to my City Directory
• Links to my 6 Short Assignments
  • Object Analysis – Graveyard
  • Precis 1
  • Close Reading 1
  • Precis 2
  • Object Analysis – Cookbook
• Link to my Exhibit Brief
• Link to my Final Project
  • note: pretty much everything, even the title of the exhibit, has captions! Click around and read all about it.