Curriculum
This page provides free curricular resources for Jewish day schools, religious schools, camps, youth groups, and adult education organizations. There are lesson plans about Jewish languages, Yiddish, and Jewish English, and there are videos and teachers' guides about Jewish Neo-Aramaic and Judeo-Median languages of Iran. More resources will be added in the coming years. If you have ideas for other resources that would be useful, or if you'd like to contribute curricular materials, please get in touch.
The Jewish Language Project is piloting a 9-lesson mix-and-match curriculum for Jewish schools, grades 4-9:
Beyond the Family Tree: Jewish History and Diversity Through Family Languages and Names
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This DEI-focused unit provides an alternative to the Ashkenormative orientation of many Jewish educational institutions. It introduces students to the diversity of Jews around the world, past and present, and enables them to see themselves as part of that mosaic.
Contact us for more information or to become a pilot school.
Pages for Jewish Holidays
Exhibits
Fun Facts
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Lesson Plans
Lesson 1 - Who speaks Jewish languages?
Lesson 2 - How do these languages differ from the neighboring non-Jewish languages?
Lesson 3 - What are these languages like? Focus on Yiddish
Lesson 4 - Jewish English: Drawing from Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, etc.
Lesson 5 - Rosh Hashanah Symbolic Foods with Optional MasterChef
Notecards, posters, worksheets, and other materials for the lessons above
Jewish Language at Camp
Short films about Jewish languages
Short film about Jewish Neo-Aramaic.
Teachers' guide about Jewish Neo-Aramaic.
Short film about Judeo-Median languages of Iran (Judeo-Isfahani, Judeo-Hamedani, Judeo-Kashani, etc.).
Teachers' guide about Judeo-Median languages of Iran
See also curricular resources about Jewish diversity from our partner organizations, ASF Institute of Jewish Experience, Bechol Lashon, and JIMENA.