This successful project will benefit children in learning about the life of European Jews from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The teacher's manual also includes methodological recommendations for teachers, maps, a glossary, and chronological charts (timelines showing the creation of the world until the modern era).
Landmark Manual Published for Jewish History Teachers
Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine — A presentation took place for the new teachers’ manual “The People of Israel are Alive”, which is aimed at eighth graders attending Jewish schools. The Ohr Avner Chabad Day School in Dneprodzerzhinsk is the first institution to use this book.
This successful project will benefit children in learning about the life of European Jews from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The teacher’s manual also includes methodological recommendations for teachers, maps, a glossary, and chronological charts (timelines showing the creation of the world until the modern era).
“This comprehensive work was done in order to help develop the existing and necessary feeling of genuine Jewish pride – pride that enables you to feel a sense of belonging to your people, responsibility and internal happiness,” commented Dina Stambler, who led this project. This major initiative also involved a whole team of historians and teachers including specialists from the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School in Dneprodzerzhinsk, the ‘Beit Ulpan’ High School in Jerusalem, and the ‘Machon Tal’ affiliated with the ‘Machon Lev’ Institute in Jerusalem, Israel.
Work is already being done to prepare textbooks on Jewish history for pupils in the sixth, seventh, ninth and tenth grades. The authors’ collective is hopeful that an entire set of teachers’ manuals will also be prepared by the end of the year.
