Links

My handouts and sites referenced for class

• Web site for film Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (we saw part 3: The Shaping of Traditions: 30-732 CE and part 4: The Crucible of Europe 732-1492, then part 8: Out of the Ashes: 1919-1947
• Teaching site for Heritage film (contains lesson plans)
• Reading from A Vanished World (pdf; download for February 2; on medieval Judaism to 1492)
• Film: Islam: Empire of Faith
• Triumph of the Will (HD on Youtube)

Study Guides

• quiz study guide for film and A Vanished World (Feb 2)
• Quiz study guide for part 8 of Heritage (Feb 7)
• Study Guide for Devil's Arithmetic
• Quiz Guide for Weisman, Echo in my Blood
• Quiz guide for All But My Life
• Study guide for articles by Everdell
• Study guide for The Reader
• Study guide for The Shawl

Religion

• National Humanities Center: Religion in American Teacherserve
• Comparative Table of Christianity and Islam (Religous Tolerance)
• Comparatibe Table of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
• Jewish-Christian artistic collaborations

Judaism

• From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
• Medieval Kabbalism
• 1492: The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
• Web site for film Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (we saw part 3: The Shaping of Traditions: 30-732 CE and part 4: The Crucible of Europe 732-1492, then part 8: Out of the Ashes: 1919-1947
• Teaching site for Heritage film (contains lesson plans)

Holocaust Teaching Resources

• Museum Fellowship Teaching Resources for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Teaching sites for Eli Wiesel's Night
• A God Who Remembers, by Eli Wiesel (NPR's This I Believe Series)

Islam

• Islamic Calligraphy
• Averroes and Sufism
• Film: Islam: Empire of Faith
• Islam and Science Fiction (download Kindle Edition of Mosque Among the Stars)
• Film: Inside Islam (History Channel)
• Film: Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran
• Film: Science and Islam
• Film: Paradise Found: Islamic Art and Architecture

Hollywood

• An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (note bigotted commentary by viewers)
• Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a people