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Review: The Art Of The Jewish Family: A History Of Women In Early New York In Five Objects, Jeanne E. Abrams Jun 2021

Review: The Art Of The Jewish Family: A History Of Women In Early New York In Five Objects, Jeanne E. Abrams

Center for Judaic Studies: Faculty Scholarship

Review of The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects by Laura Arnold Leibman.


Primary Sources In The College Classroom: The Beck Archives At The University Of Denver Libraries, Jeanne E. Abrams Jul 2020

Primary Sources In The College Classroom: The Beck Archives At The University Of Denver Libraries, Jeanne E. Abrams

Center for Judaic Studies: Faculty Scholarship

The University of Denver’s Libraries’ Special Collections, which include the Beck Archives of Rocky Mountain Jewish History, have made a concerted effort to encourage faculty to incorporate the use of primary sources into their undergraduate curricula. Teaching teams, consisting of special collections curators, reference and instruction librarians, and faculty members, used both digital and physical primary resources to engage students. These efforts led to the DU project’s being named the recipient of the 2018 Primary Source Award for Teaching from the Center of Research Libraries. This article details the project and highlights the Beck Archives items, which were especially effective …