Dear Safranim, The Rabbi at my Temple has asked me to come up with videos on different periods of Jewish history for our after-school (Tuesday and Thursday) Hebrew School students. They will have maybe an hour a month to learn about this history. We are talking about an audience of roughly 8-12 year olds.
He mentioned these topics: - overview of Jewish history - different communities and customs - destruction of the Temple and exile - Inquisition - ghettos, persecution, Shoah - state of Israel I found a great thread on JEDLAB and I've been looking at various videos from recommended sites and beyond. But starting with the Jewish history overview, so far I haven't watched anything that I want to share with the kids. Common problems are narration that mispronounces words, a Christian viewpoint that pops up briefly (and surprisingly!) well into the video, content that is way too sophisticated/ironic for my target audience, a lecturer talking with no visuals(!), etc. Can you recommend any specific videos (freely available, if possible) that you've used on any of these topics? Personally for some of these topics I would be happier using books, but I understand why he wants to use videos. Last year for 4th grade and up we used the excellent 10-minute HBO documentary inspired by the book, *The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm. *Marjorie Ingall's review in Tablet led me to the film: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/holocaust-movie-for-young-viewers__;!!KGKeukY!0wBN_PonzuRsFggLtBmLh3CipA6SeO1KVXMWSdQLZp85Mqvdg22qFZ0zpKyiWspJ1oqtOlwxrjYBYXOyXWjAYjhNusBg$ . So I expect that there is some wonderful material out there but I need some help finding it. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer! Shabbat Shalom! Annette Annette Y Goldsmith, PhD (she/her/hers) Part-time Faculty, Kent State University iSchool Librarian, Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, Los Angeles Member, 2022 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Committee *Currently reading: *Alston, B.B. *Amari and the Night Brothers *(Supernatural Investigations, Book 1). Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, 2021. "A book is like a world you can carry around with you." Liniers.* Written and Drawn by Henrietta* (TOON Books, 2015)
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