3.25.21 Introduction

• Introduction
• Max Modiano Daniel (UCLA), A Judeo-Spanish Love Letter (New York, 1913)
• Jessica Cooperman (Muhlenberg College), American Judaism and World War I (US, 1918)
• Perla Sneh (Independent Scholar), Koshmar -The Nightmare of the Tragic Week (Buenos Aires, 1919)
• Merrie Blocker and Roberta Alexandr Sundfeld (Independent Scholars), “Adelia’s Wedding,” (Brazil, 1920)
• Jamboard

IN-CLASS: EVERYONE FIND PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE (OR ACADEMIC BOOK CHAPTER) ON JEWS IN YOUR CITY (ideally about the interwar era)

3.27.21-4.4.21 Passover

Optional Essay: Natalie Zemon Davis, “Regaining Jerusalem: Jewish Slaveowners Celebrate Passover in 17th-Century Suriname,” Tablet Magazine (2016)

3.30.21 Latin America/West Coast

• Gina Malagold (Georgetown University), Anita Brenner’s “The Sephardim” (Mexico, 1925)
• Simone Salmon (UCLA), Ladino Songs (Cuba, New York, California, 1942-1979)
• Adriana Brodsky (St. Mary’s College), La Luz magazine cover: The Rise of Hitler (Argentina, 1933)
• Paloma Cung Sulkin (Independent Scholar), Gravestones (Mexico, 1914-40)
• Jamboard

CLOSE READING (Group 4): 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. 

OBJECT ANALYSIS (Group 1): 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.  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.

4.1.21 Across the Americas

• Lewis Gordon, “Rarely Kosher: Studying Jews of Color in North America”
• Laura Leibman (Reed College), Portraits of Multiracial and Gender Bending Jews (Suriname, 1920s-30s)
• Thomas Larue Recording (1923). More on Black Cantors.
• Landing, “Photographic Supplement,” Black Judaism, 243-256.
• Relevant chapter from Landing’s Black Judaism
  • Group 1: Black Judaism in Latin America” (177-194)
  • Group 3: “Black Judaism in Harlem, New-York City, 1896-1930” (119-158) OR “Black Judaism in Philadelphia” (339-362)
  • Group 4: “Black  Judaism in oTher U.S. Cities Since 1930” (363-386)
  • Group 2: Introduction to Caribbean Jewish Crossings, ed. Sarah Phillips Casteel and Heidi Kaufman

PRECIS: Groups 1, 2, 3, & 4.  You have an option to do a video or written version of this precis. Written: 1-2 page (double spaced) analysis  of a either Gordon’s article or the chapter from Landing or Casteel. This review MUST include both a short paragraph summarizing the argument of the article and a long paragraph discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the argument. Worksheet.  Video: complete the worksheet as you normally would but using imovie or another software, make a video abstract of the article/chapter.

4.6.21  Across the Americas

• Rachel Rubinstein (Holyoke Community College), “Kristobal Kolon: The Yiddish Columbus” (Mexico, 1939)
• Patricia Nuriel (Wofford College) and Alan Astro (Trinity University), Der arbetslozer ganef (“The Unemployed Thief”) (Argentina, 1939-40)
• Ira and Yosef Dov Robinson (Concordia University), “Are Tref [non-kosher] Butcher Shops Really Tref?” (Canada, 1934)
• Jewish Cookbooks: A Brief History
• Adeena Sussman, “Michael Twitty’s Kosher Soul” 
• Jamboard

OBJECT ANALYSIS ( Groups 1 & 4): RECIPES. Pick a Jewish recipe or cookbook from your city.  Write a brief analysis of the recipe/book and create an interactivity using H5P that helps people understand the recipe/cookbook betterResources: American Foodways: The Jewish Contribution. Jewish American Cookbooks, NYPL. The Jewish Cookery. The Settlement Cookbook. Converso Cookbook. [General Digital Collections of cookbooks, not all Jewish!l: Historical Mexican cookbooks. Feeding America. Vintage Cookbooks. 10,000 Vintage Cookbooks.]

4.8.21 WWII & Its Aftermath

• Philip Roth, “Defender of the Faith” (1959)

• Laurence Roth (Susquehanna University) and Mark Fertig (Susquehanna University), Punching Hitler in WWII Comic Books (New York, 1943)
• Darrell Lockhart (University of Nevada), Eichmann’s Capture: A Graphic Novel (Argentina 2012-15)
• Noam Sienna (University of Minnesota), A Rabbi counsels  a Gay Jewish G.I (New York, 1944)
• Marion Kaplan (NYU), Miriam’s Letter, 1941 (Dominican Republic, 1941)
• Tamara Gleason Freidberg (University College London), Fighting for Mexican Visas during WWII (Mexico, 1942)
• Natasha Zaretsky (NYU), Victory Day Celebrations (New York, 2015)
• 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.

Friday 4.16.21 EVERYONE: EXHIBIT BRIEF DUE

4.10.21-4.18.21  SPRING BREAK