3.4.21 Introduction / East Coast/West Coast

• Benedict Anderson, “Introduction,” Imagined Communities, 1-8.
• Zev Eleff (Touro College), Women & Religion in Jewish Newspapers (New York 1877)
• Judah Cohen (Indiana University), Music for Psalm 93 (United States, 1869/1875)
• Penina Moise Hymns (listen to her hymn “Into the Tomb of Ages Past“)
• Barry Stiefel (College of Charleston), Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, 1839-41)
• Shari Rabin (Oberlin College), Circumcision Deposition (Louisiana, 1859)
• Dianne Ashton (Rowan University), Rebecca Gratz Sunday School Speech (Pennsylvania, 1861)
• Padlet
• How can I get my brain to work better?

IN CLASS: JEWISH NEWSPAPERS and JEWS in NEWSPAPERS. Resources: By location.  Historical Jewish Press Collection (US). The Occident and American Jewish Advocate (Philadelphia). The Jewish Sentinel (Chicago). Gleaner (ed. Joshua and Jacob de Cardova, Kingston). Surinamese Newspapers 18th-20th C. Suriname Newspapers & Jews 1811-13. Surinaamsche Courant 1824-1830. The Jewish News of Northern California (San Francisco 1903, 1904, 1966, 1967). The Southern Patriot (Jacob Nunez/Nunes Cardozo editor, Charleston) Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876. America’s Historical Newspapers. Latin American Newspapers. Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954. OR Locate music resources for your city. Music & Prayer, Jewish Digital Collections. 

3.9.21  no class

3.11.21 East Coast

• Analyzing Images: Photographs
• Civil War Letters (starts p. 12 of the folder) and Daguerreotypes from the Moses Family.
• Steven Jacobs (University of Alabama), General Grant’s Order No. 12 (Mississippi, 1862)
• Dianne Ashton (Rowan University), Diary of Emma Mordecai (North Carolina, 1864-1865)
• Laura Leibman (Reed College), Jews and Daguerreotypes (Suriname, New York 1840s)
• Jamboard
• Myheritage Deep Nostalgia.

OBJECT ANALYSIS (Group 3): PHOTOGRAPHS. Pick a photograph of a Jew (or Jews) from your city from this era.  Write a brief analysis of the photograph and create an interactivity using H5P that helps people understand the photograph better. Loeb Portrait Database [all good]. AJHS Photographs 1890s-1980s [be careful on the dates] DUE ON THURSDAY SO YOU GET TIME OFF.

VOTE ON GUINEA PIGS!

3.16.21 Latin America/East Coast

• Abraham Cahan, “The Ghetto Wedding” & A Bintle Briv (or pdf)
• Judith Riquelme Rios (Archivo Histórico de Judaísmo Chileno), Salomón Goldenberg’s Letter Home (Chile, 1870)
• Sophia Levin (Independent Scholar), Salem Fields Cemetery (New York, 1890-1945)
• Mir Yarfitz (Wake Forest University), Argentine Jewish Prostitution (Argentina, 1895)
• Devi Mays (University of Michigan), Types of Immigration (Mexico, 1908)
• Celia Bergoffen (Fashion Institute of Technology), The Eldridge Street Synagogue’s Mikvah (New York, ca. 1887)
• Jamboard

CLOSE READING (Group 1): 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.

3.18.21 West Coast

• Steve Lowenstein, The Jews of Oregon, 1850-1950, 6-8, 49-58, 65-69, 76-79
• Lori Harrison-Kahan (Boston College), The Philomath Club (California, 1909)
• Lori Harrison-Kahan (Boston College), “The Kitchen” (California, 1910s)
• Jeanne Abrahms (University of Denver), Jews & Tuberculosis (Colorado, 1904-1930s)
• Jamboard

OBJECT ANALYSIS (Group 4): GRAVESTONES. Pick a gravestone from your city from this era.  Write a brief analysis of the gravestone and create an interactivity using H5P that helps people understand the gravestone better. Seattle. San Francisco. Chicago.

Help for other regions. East Coast and Caribbean: Jewish Atlantic World Database. General good ways to find Jewish gravestones: 1) look for where the oldest cemetery is in your city using http://iajgscemetery.org/ then do a google search for the cemetery you are interested in OR look for it using https://www.findagrave.com/. Mexico City: Old Sephardic Cemetery. Older Section Ashkenazi Cemetery. Zionists, Masons, Communists. Historic Photos on Gravestones. Argentina: iajgs. Zwi Migdal cemetery.