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The History Of Teaching The Holocaust In Public Secondary Schools In The United States, From The 1960s To The Present, Julia Highbury Spenser

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Jewish Fraternities And Sororities As Spaces Of Resistance Against Antisemitism, Pietro Antonio Sasso, Kimberly Davis

Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs

There has been a continued increase in antisemitic activities at colleges and universities over the last decade. Media reports and research about perceptions of Jewish college students add face validity that student organizations are often targets of Anti-Jewish rhetoric. In particular, Jewish fraternities and sororities have been targeted by antisemitism as sites of violence but have also been spaces of resistance. Through a literature review of Jewish fraternities and sororities, the authors present their organizational saga to demonstrate a pattern of exclusion and antisemitism and summarize current initiatives by Jewish fraternities and sororities as spaces of resistance in combating antisemitism.

Ethnicity And Education: College Attendance Patterns Among Early 20th-Century Maine's Immigrant Community, Jacob M. Nash

Honors Theses

I examine the college attendance patterns of second-generation Russian-Jewish immigrants in Maine in the early 20^th century relative to other ethnic groups using individual-level Census records. I employ the Abramitzky, Boustan, and Eriksson (ABE) algorithm to track second-generation Jewish, Italian, French Canadian, English Canadian and European immigrants from the 1910 Census to the 1940 Census. My logistic regression analysis indicates that second-generation Jewish immigrants in Maine attended college at significantly higher rates than their peers of similar background in every other ethnic group. While I cannot evaluate them, I also discuss potential explanations for the disparity in college attendance …

Jewish Time Jump: New York, Owen Gottlieb

Articles

Jewish Time Jump: New York (Gottlieb & Ash, 2013) is a place-based mobile augmented reality game and simulation that takes the form of a situated documentary. Players take on the role of time traveling reporters tracking down a story “lost to time” to bring back to their editor at the Jewish Time Jump Gazette. The game is played in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, New York City. Players’ iPhones become their time traveling device and companion. Based on the player’s GPS location, players receive digital images from their location from over a hundred years in the past as well …

Religion In Incarcerated, Jewish, Female Inmates, Marcia Janine Kesner

Theses and Dissertations

This study explored the role religious belief and practice played amongst Jewish, female inmates during their incarceration. A group of ten correctional chaplains who work with Jewish, female, inmates and a comparison group of ten chaplains who work with Protestant, female inmates were interviewed. The study determined the reasons for and benefits of religious observance among these inmates and included assisting in dealing with fear, providing a sense of peace, and deceitful motives for personal gains. Religious practice also assisted inmate populations in healing from trauma, improving self-respect and self-esteem, building support systems, and additionally for Jewish, female inmates constructing …

Tatyana Markus: Hero Of Ukraine, Ariana L. Martineau

Honors Projects

A dramatized telling of the story of Tatyana Markus, a young Jewish resistance fighter from Kiev, Ukraine. Under a false identity, she personally killed dozens of Nazis during WWII. Along the way she lost many people she cared about until she was captured herself. Tatyana has gone on virtually unknown throughout the world, so this play is an effort to spread word about this brave, amazing girl who was only in her early 20s. I think the themes are very relatable to today's society with the struggle of whether to stand up to injustice, or stand by. Especially since she …

Finding Lost & Found: Designer’S Notes From The Process Of Creating A Jewish Game For Learning, Owen Gottlieb

Articles

This article provides context for and examines aspects of the design process of a game for learning. Lost & Found (2017a, 2017b) is a tabletop-to-mobile game series designed to teach medieval religious legal systems, beginning with Moses Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah (1180), a cornerstone work of Jewish legal rabbinic literature. Through design narratives, the article demonstrates the complex design decisions faced by the team as they balance the needs of player engagement with learning goals. In the process the designers confront challenges in developing winstates and in working with complex resource management. The article provides insight into the pathways the team …

Introduction: Jewish Gamevironments – Exploring Understanding With Playful Systems, Owen Gottlieb

Articles

The study of Judaism, Jewish civilizationi, and games is currently comprised of projects of a rather small set of game scholars. A sample of our work is included in this issue.

Card Tricks: A Workflow For Scalability And Dynamic Content Creation Using Paper2d And Unreal Engine 4, Owen Gottlieb, Dakota Herold, Edward Amidon

Presentations and other scholarship

In this paper, we describe the design and technological methods of

our dynamic sprite system in Lost & Found, a table-top-to-mobile

card game designed to improve literacy regarding prosocial

aspects of religious legal systems, specifically, collaboration and

cooperation. Harnessing the capabilities of Unreal Engine’s

Paper2D system, we created a dynamic content creation pipeline

that empowered our game designers so that they could rapidly

iterate on the game’s systems and balance externally from the

engine. Utilizing the Unreal Blueprint component system we were

also able to modularize each actor during runtime as data may be

changed. The technological approach behind Lost …

Language And The Promised Land: Passage And Migration To A Spanish-Language ‘Third Place’, Kenya C. Dworkin Y Mendez

Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions

The Spanish-language anthology Caminos para la paz: Literatura israelí y árabe en castellano (Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2007) [Paths towards/for Peace: Israeli and Arab literature in Castilian], compiled by Ignacio López-Calvo and Cristián Ricci, offers us a collection of over thirty reflections—some Jewish, others Muslim—about the millennial but also contemporary situation of two literally related and historic peoples in a language—Spanish—that seemingly allows them to inhabit the same, this time uncontested, space. Despite the potentially questionable title of the work, which couches the conflict as that of a nation-state versus a nation and/or two peoples contesting rights to one same land, …

The Economics Of Section 170: A Case For The Charitable Deduction Of Parochial School Tuition, Meir Katz

Meir Katz

That payments for parochial school tuition are not deductible under Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code is a foregone conclusion in the eyes of many tax policy scholars. Tuition provides an easy case because the donor receives something of great value in return for his donation: the education of his children. This Article questions that conclusion. By taking a close look at the economics behind these tuition payments in the context of a discrete population, the religious Jewish community, I show that traditional economic assumptions are inappropriate for analysis of those payments. Rather than a traditional economic exchange for …

Under The Dome - June 2002, Mckissick Museum--University Of South Carolina

Under the Dome, McKissick Museum Newsletter

Contents:

A Showing of Silver.....p. 1
Blockbuster Exhibit Begins National Tour.....p. 2
Museum Wins Film Award.....p. 2
Folk Artists Honored.....p. 3
Exciting New Season Ahead.....p. 3
Exhibitions.....p. 4
Summer Camps.....p. 4

Under The Dome - October 2000, Mckissick Museum--University Of South Carolina

Under the Dome, McKissick Museum Newsletter

Contents:

Fall Folklife Festival.....p. 1
African Collection Receives National Grant.....p. 2
Myth, Memory and Imagination Begins National Tour.....p. 2
Staff Attend Annual AAM Meeting.....p. 2
Scenes of Summer!.....p. 3
Docents See the Sights in Greenville.....p. 4
On View in the Galleries.....p. 4
Upcoming in January 2001.....p. 4

Under The Dome - April 2000, Mckissick Museum--University Of South Carolina

Under the Dome, McKissick Museum Newsletter

Contents:

Southern Stews.....p. 1
Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards.....p. 2
USC Showcase 2000.....p. 2
South Carolina Federation of Museums - 2000 Conference.....p. 2
Major Donation Made to Heritage Project.....p. 3
McKissick Mornings.....p. 3
Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon.....p. 3
New Staff Positions.....p. 4
Exhibitions and Events.....p. 4

Under The Dome - April 1998, Mckissick Museum--University Of South Carolina

Under the Dome, McKissick Museum Newsletter

Contents:

I Made This Jar.....p. 1
Folk Potters of Eastern Germany and Central North Carolina.....p. 2
Traditional Craft Workshop.....p. 2
1998 Southern Circuit Film Tour.....p. 2
Digital Images.....p. 3
Pledging Allegiance: Three Centuries of Jewish Life in South Carolina.....p. 3
The Songs of Maybelle Stamper.....p. 3
Summer Programs for Young People.....p. 4

Under The Dome - January 1997, Mckissick Museum--University Of South Carolina

Under the Dome, McKissick Museum Newsletter

Contents:

Earl Cunningham: Painting an American Eden.....p. 1
New Members for Museum Advisory Council.....p. 2
The Splendor of the Box.....p. 2
Southern Circuit Film Tour Continues: An Evening of Jazz and Film.....p. 2
The Year at a Glance.....p. 3
For God's Eyes, A Cultural Collaboration.....p. 5
I Made This Jar: The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave .....p. 5
Special Events.....p. 6
Exhibitions.....p. 6

Under The Dome - January 1995, Mckissick Museum--University Of South Carolina

Under the Dome, McKissick Museum Newsletter

Contents:

Madness in America.....p. 1
Exhibition on Wedgewood Explores Potter's Experimental Work.....p. 2
Vincent Suttles Retrospective.....p. 3
Spring Showcases the Art Department.....p. 3
Research Begins on Jewish Heritage Project.....p. 3
Jane's Journeys.....p. 4
Council Begins Corporate Membership Campaign.....p. 5
New Officers & Members Elected.....p. 5
Spring Fundraiser.....p. 5
Madness in America.....p. 6
Special Programs.....p. 7
Volunteers Sahre Their Many Talents in Programs for Seniors.....p. 8
McKissick Unplugged Brings Local Music and Coffee House to the Second Floor.....p. 8
Travel Opportunity.....p. 9
Exhibition Previews Add Another Benefit for Membership.....p. 9
McKissick Scores Political Coup.....p. 10
Calendar.....p. 11
General Information.....p. 12

Developing A Conversational English As A Second Language And Acculturation Program For A Social Service Agency Engaged In The Resettlement Of Soviet Jewish Immigrants, Robert Charles Wachman

MA TESOL Collection

This paper describes the creation and first year of development of a three-component conversational ESL and acculturation program for Soviet Jewish immigrants. The project was designed to meet the needs of a private social service agency engaged in resettlement in Long Beach, California. It consisted of reorganization and development of a newly formed volunteer tutorial project, and the creation and development of a weekly class program and a series of cross-cultural communication gatherings.

Of special note are selections which discuss the orientation, on-going training, and problems relative to the employment of non-professionals as tutors and teaching assistants. Approaches, methods, and …