2.23.23 Migration and Community => NOW for 2.28.23

Benedict Anderson, “Introduction,” Imagined Communities, 1-8

Entries and Introduction to Part 3: Era of Mass Migration in Reader, pp. 177-187, 147-150, 204-206, 211-214, 244-246, 247-249

• Eli Rosenblatt, Prayer for Jewish Militiamen
• Jonathan Sarna, Conversion and Repentance in the Diary of Cora Wilburn 
• Blanca de Lima, Coro Mikveh [images]
• Zev Eleff, Women & Religion in Jewish Newspapers
• David Koffman, Praying for British Royalty and Republican Government
• Images from Intro [quilt] [temple] [Benoit]

IN CLASS: JEWISH NEWSPAPERS and JEWS in NEWSPAPERS. Resources: By location.  Historical Jewish Press Collection (US). Jewish Newspapers, NYPL. Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876. America’s Historical Newspapers. Latin American Newspapers.

3.2.23  Early Photography

Analyzing Images: Photographs

Civil War Letters and Daguerreotypes from the Moses Family

Entries in Reader, pp. 198-203, 221-227, 241-243

• Laura Leibman, 45. Jews and Daguerreotypes [image 1, 2, 3]
• Steven Jacobs, 51. General Grant’s Order No. 11
• Dianne Ashton, 52. Diary of Emma Mordecai
• David Koffman, 56. Jews and Native Americans [image]

OBJECT ANALYSIS (Groups 3 & 4): 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]. For San Francisco check the Magnes Collection [be careful on dates].

3.7.23 Urban Lives

Purim Party!

Abraham Cahan, “The Ghetto Wedding” 

Entries in Reader, pp. 250-265, 281-284, 304-306

• 59. Celia Bergoffen, The Eldridge Street Synagogue’s Mikvah [images of Mikveh] [Eldridge Street Synagogue]
• 60. Leibman, Documenting Tenements [Images]
• 61. Sophia Levin, Salem Fields Cemetery [images]
• 66. Devi Mays, Types of Immigration
• 69. Mir Yarfitz, Jewish Prostitution [maps] [archival photos of sex workers]

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.

3.9.23 New Communities

Steve Lowenstein, The Jews of Oregon, 1850-1950, 6-8, 49-58, 65-69, 76-79 [Info on the New Odessa Community in Oregon]

Entries in Reader, pp. 238-240, 266-280, 284-292

• 55. Judith Riquelme Rios, Abraham Goldenberg’s Letter Home
• 62. Lori Harrison-Kahan, “The Kitchen”
• 63. Adriana Brodsky, Alliance Israelite Universelle School Curriculum
• 64. Jeanne Abrams, Jews & Tuberculosis [Image 1] [Image 2] [Image 3] [Image 4]
• 65. Josh Parshall, The Pogrom against the Blacks in Atlanta
• 67. Lori Harrison-Kahan, The Philomath Club
• 68. Adriana Brodsky, The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas
  • Extras: [Images of Jewish Gauchos and Colonists and Moisesville] [Images from Agricultural Community in Brazil] Short Film Gauchos Judíos. More images

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.

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