Jewish theatre

Our workshop about the Jewish theatre gave us a lot of new information about the greatest Jewish theatres in Tel Aviv, Moscow and New York. Unfortunately, there is no Professional theatre in Slovakia nowadays.
Habima National Theatre located in Tel Aviv, is Israel's national theatre and one of the first Hebrew language theatres. In 1928 Habima invited director Aleksei Dikiy from the Moscow Art Theatre. Dikiy directed two successful plays for Habima: one was Der Oytser (The Treasure), a play in Yiddish by Sholom Aleichem, that premiered on December 29, 1928, the second was The Crown, a play by David Calderon, that premiered on May 23, 1929 in Tel Aviv. With the success of Dikiy's directorship in the season of 1928/29, Habima gained reputation as a national Jewish theatre with a permanent repertoire and stage in Tel Aviv.
The Moscow State Jewish Theater, also known by its acronym GOSET was a Yiddish theater company established in 1919 and shut down in 1948 by the Soviet authorities. The theater's repertoire included adaptations of Sholom Aleichem, such as Tevye the Milkman (also adopted in the West as Fiddler on the Roof),and of Avrom Goldfadn, such as Bar Kokhba, as well as works by contemporary Soviet Yiddish writers, such as Perets Markish and Dovid Bergelson. The theater also performed William Shakespeare's King Lear to great acclaim.
The Jewish Theater of New York is a theatre company founded in 1994, with the popular production of One Hundred Gates by playwright/director Tuvia Tenenbom. As of 2003, The Jewish Theater of New York is the only English-speaking Jewish theatre company in New York state. Some of its shows, such as Father of the Angels, Love Letters to Adolf Hitler, Diary of Adolf Eichmann, The Suicide Bomber, Love in Great Neck, The Last Virgin, Last Jew in Europe and others, have been written about in much of the Western press and are also studied in universities.

Jewish film

There are a lot of good films about Jews, their life: These are some of them:
Schindler´s list - Schindler's List is an epic 1993 American war-drama film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as Schutzstaffel (SS) officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
Holocaust - The film Holocaust tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the (fictional) Weiss family of German Jews, and from the point of view of a rising member of the SS, who gradually becomes a merciless, bloodthirsty war criminal. Holocaust highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. The series ultimately attempted to portray the atrocity of this genocide to viewers.
The Chosen - The film elucidates the friendship between two young Jews of differing factions. Benson is Hassidic, while Barry Miller is a Zionist. Though separated ideologically, the boys find a common bond through their love of stickball.
Fiddler on the roof - The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family and religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives. He must cope with both the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters—each one's choice of husband moves further away from the customs of her faith—and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village.
Driving Miss Daisy - An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship t transcends their differences.
Shoah - Shoah is a nine-hour film completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985 about the Holocaust (or Shoah). Though Shoah is conventionally classified as a documentary film, director Lanzmann considers it to fall outsid of that genre, as, unlike most historical documentaries, the film does not feature reenactments or historical footage; instead it consists of interviews with people who were involved in various ways in the Holocaust, and visits to different places they discuss.

Lich'vod Hachanukkah -Chaim Nachman Bialik - Chanukah song

Jewish holidays

A Jewish holiday or festival is a day or series of days observed by Jews as a holy or secular commemoration of an important event in Jewish history. In Hebrew, Jewish holidays and festivals, depending on their nature, may be called yom tov (good day) or chag (festival) or ta'anit (fast).
Rosh Hashanah — The Jewish New Year - According to the Talmud and oral tradition, Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish new year, day of memorial and the day of judgment, in which God judges each person individually according to their deeds, and makes a decree for the following year. The holiday is characterized by the special mitzvah of blowing the shofar. According to the Torah, however, this is the first day of the seventh month of the calendar year that marks the beginning of a ten day count to Yom Kippur.
Aseret Yemei Teshuva — Ten Days of Repentance - The first ten days of the seventh month of the Jewish year (from the beginning of Rosh Hashana until the end of Yom Kippur) are known as the Aseret Yemei Teshuva. During this time it is "exceedingly appropriate" for Jews to practice "Teshuvah," which is examining one's deeds and repenting for sins committed against both God and one's fellow man in anticipation of Yom Kippur. This repentance can take the form of additional supplications, confessing one's deeds before God, fasting, and self-reflection. On the third day, the Fast of Gedalia is celebrated.
Yom Kippur — Day of Atonement - Yom Kippur is considered by Jews to be the holiest and most solemn day of the year. Its central theme is atonement and reconciliation. Eating, drinking, bathing, anointing with oil, and marital relations are forbidden. Fasting begins at sundown, and ends after nightfall the following day. Yom Kippur services begin with the prayer known as "Kol Nidrei", which must be recited before sunset.
Hanukkah — Festival of Lights - Hanukkah marks the defeat of Seleucid Empire forces that had tried to prevent the people of Israel from practicing Judaism. Judah Maccabee and his brothers destroyed overwhelming forces, and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem. The eight-day festival is marked by the kindling of lights — one on the first night, two on the second, and so on — using a special candle holder called a Chanukkiyah, or a Hanukkah menorah.
Pesach — Passover
Erev Pesach and Fast of the Firstborn known as "Ta'anit Bechorim" — 14 Nisan
Passover 15 and 16 Nisan
The "Last days of Passover", known as Acharon shel Pesach, are also a holiday commemorating K'riat Yam Suf, the Passage of the Red Sea. — 21 and 22 Nisan
The semi-holiday days between the "first days" and the "last days" of Passover are known as Chol Hamo'ed, referred to as the "Intermediate days".
Passover commemorates the liberation of the Israelite slaves from Egypt. No leavened food is eaten during the week of Pesach, in commemoration of the fact that the Jews left Egypt so quickly that their bread did not have enough time to rise.
Rosh Chodesh — the New Month - The first day of each month and the thirtieth day of the preceding month, if it has thirty days, a minor holiday known as Rosh Chodesh (head of the month). The one exception is the month of Tishrei, whose beginning is a major holiday, Rosh Hashanah. There are also special prayers said upon observing the new Moon for the first time each month.
Shabbat — The Sabbath - Jewish law accords Shabbat the status of a holiday, a day of rest celebrated on the seventh day of each week. Jewish law defines a day as ending at nightfall, which is when the next day then begins. Thus, Shabbat begins at sundown Friday night, and ends at nightfall Saturday night.
New Israeli/Jewish national holidays
-Yom Yerushalayim — Jerusalem day
-Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance day
-Yom Hazikaron — Memorial Day
-Yom Ha'atzmaut — Israel Independence Day
-These four days are national holidays in the State of Israel, and in general have been accepted as religious holidays by the following groups: The Union of Orthodox Congregations and Rabbinical Council of America; The United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth (United Kingdom); The Chief Rabbinate of the State of Israel; All of Reform Judaism and Conservative Judaism; The Union for Traditional Judaism and the Reconstructionist movement.
-Yom Ha'atzmaut — Israel Independence Day
-Yom Ha'atzmaut is Israel's Independence Day. An official ceremony is held annually on the eve of Yom Ha'atzmaut at Mount Herzl. The ceremony includes speeches by senior Israeli officials, an artistic presentation, a ritual march of flag-carrying soldiers forming elaborate structures and the lighting of twelve beacons. Dozens of Israeli citizens, who contributed significantly to the state, are selected to light these beacons.

The Jewish Wedding Video

Jewish traditions

JEWISH TRADITIONS
-BABY-NAMING CEREMONIES
-Simchat Bat - Traditionally, the Simchat Bat ceremony for baby girls, takes place in the synagogue on the first Shabbat following her birth. During the ceremony, either the father or both parents are called to the Torah for a reading and blessing
-The Bar and bat micwa - According to Jewish law, when Jewish children reach the 13 years for boys and 12 for girls they become responsible for their actions, and become a Bar or Bat Mitzvah„The ceremony is symolizing the begining of adulthood.
MARRIAGE - The groom smashes a glass with his right foot, to symbolize the destruction of the Temple. Traditionally, the day before the wedding, both the bride and the groom fast. The man then places the ring on woman's finger and says "Be sanctified to me with this ring in accordance with the law of Moses and Israel."
The tora - This is the most important displayed text, colich consists of five books in Hebrew language, written according to tradition by Moses on God's recommendation.
Jewish prayers - A Jew should pray three times a day. Szachrit morning, Mincha in the afternoon, Maariw in the evening.

Jewish humour II

Have fun with us and Jewish jokes:
• Jew pilot
• Q: Is one permitted to ride in an airplane on the Sabbath?
• A: Yes, as long as your seat belt remains fastened. In this case, it is considered that you are not riding, you are wearing the plane.

• Two boys
• Two little boys talking:
• I'm getting operated on tomorrow
• Oh? What are they going to do?
• Circumcise me!
• I had that done when I was just a few days old.
• Did it hurt?
• I couldn't walk for a year!

• A Penny Saved
• Abe's son arrives home from school puffing and panting, sweat rolling down his face. "Dad, you'll be so proud of me" he says, "I saved a dollar by running behind the bus all the way home." "Oy" says Abe, "You could have run behind a taxi and saved $20"

• Truer Words Were Never spoken
• A little Jewish boy was telling his mother about how he had won a part in a play that was being done at school. His mother asked, "What is the part you will play, Saul?" Saul responded, "I shall play the Jewish husband," to which the mother replied, "Well, you go right back to that teacher and tell her that you want a SPEAKING part!"

• Another Stamp
• Moishe walks into a post office to send a package to his wife.
• The postmaster says, "This package is too heavy, you'll need another stamp."
• Moishe replies, "And that should make it lighter?!"

Jewish Traditions : How to Light the Menorah

Jewish humour

Here is one of the Jewish jokes we were laughing at:
If Microsoft were Jewish:
1. Your PC would shut down automatically on Friday evenings.
2. Your "Start" button would be replaced with a "Let's go. I'm not getting any younger." button.
3. RETRY would be replaced with "You vant I should try again?"
4. When disconnecting external devices from your PC, instructions would say "Remove from your PC's tuchis the cable ".
5. Your CD player would be labelled "Nu, so play my music already.".
6. You would hear "Hava Nagila" during startup.
7. SCANDISK prompts you with, "You vant I should fix?" message.
8. When your PC is mult-tasking, you would occasionally hear an "Oy Gevult."
9. Manischewitz would advertise that its "monitor cleaning solution" gets rid of the "schmutz" on your screen.
10. After 20 minutes in an idle state, your PC would go "Schloffen."
11. All computer viruses would be cured with chicken soup.
12. After your computer dies, you would have to dispose of it within 24 hours.
13. Internet Explorer would have a spinning "Star of David" in the upper right corner.
14. A screen saver for channukah will be "Flying Draidles".
15. High capacity DVB's (digital video bagels) would supercede CD-ROM's

Working on the project "Jewish Culture and Art"

This picture shows how we work on our project wíth the help of ICT. We are searching studying materials for our workshops.

Solar Baked Israeli Honey Cake Lekach

Jewish cuisine

This topic was very interesting for us, we have got a lot of information about cooking traditions of Jewish people and we would like to try some traditional meals from Jewish cuisine.
Jewish Cuisine is the collection of cooking traditions of the Jewish people. It is a diverse cuisine that has evolved over many centuries, shaped by Jewish dietary laws (kashrut) and Jewish Festival and Sabbath traditions. Jewish cooking has also been influenced by the economics, agriculture, and culinary traditions of the many countries where Jewish communities have existed since Late Antiquity. Kashrut and holiday traditions provide unifying elements in the cuisine, while geographic dispersion has led to a diversity of styles.
Jewish cooking varies widely throughout the world due to the use of local ingredients, and local cultural influences have made their mark on Jewish cuisine, and in turn, Jewish cuisine has also influenced other cuisines as well, with several dishes commonly eaten by non-Jewish people throughout the world.
-Kashrut - Jewish dietary laws
-The laws of keeping kosher (kashrut) have influenced Jewish cooking in two primary ways: by prescribing what foods are permitted and how food must be prepared.
-Certain foods, notably pork and shellfish, are forbidden; meat and dairy may not be combined, and meat must be ritually slaughtered and salted to remove all traces of blood.
-Matzah Ball Soup - Also known as Jewish penicillin. Matzah balls are more traditionally known as knaydelach. Matzah ball soup is generally a very thin chicken broth with two or three ping-pong-ball sized matzah balls in it. Sometimes, a few large pieces of carrot or celery are added. Matzah balls can be very soft and light or firm and heavy. Matzah ball soup is commonly served at the Passover seder, but is also eaten all year round.
-A knish is a sort of potato and flour dumpling stuffed with various things. It is baked until browned and a little crisp on the outside. They are commonly filled with mashed potato and onion, chopped liver, kasha (buckwheat) or cheese. They are good for a snack, an appetizer or a side dish. The word "knish" is Ukrainian for "dumpling."
-Gefilte fish is a cake or ball of chopped up fish. It is usually made with white-fleshed freshwater fish, such as carp or pike. The fish is chopped into small pieces, mixed with onions and some other vegetables . The mixture is held together with eggs and matzah meal. It is then boiled in broth for a while. It can be served warm or cold, though it is usually served cold with red horseradish and garnished with carrot shavings.
-Tzimmes is any kind of sweet stew. It usually is orange in color, and includes carrots, sweet potatoes or prunes. A wide variety of dishes fall under the heading "tzimmes." On Passover, tzimmes is commonly made of carrots and pineapple chunks boiled in pineapple juice. On Thanksgiving, tzimmes is made of sweet potatoes, white potatoes, carrots, and stewing beef. It is commonly eaten on Rosh Hashanah
-Blintzes are basically Jewish crepes. A blintz is a thin, flat pancake rolled around a filling. It looks a little like an egg roll. As a main dish or side dish, blintzes can be filled with sweetened cottage cheese or mashed potatoes and onion; as a dessert, they can be filled with fruit, such as apple, cherry or blueberry. They are usually pan fried in oil.They are generally served with sour cream or applesauce.
-Kugel can be either a side dish or a dessert. As a side dish, it is a casserole of potatoes, eggs and onions. As a desert, it is usually made with noodles and various fruits and nuts in an egg-based pudding. Kugel made with noodles is called lokshen kugel.

Hava Nagila Dance

Jewish dance

HORAH is a popular traditional Jewish dance, performed at special occasions like weddings and festivals in Israel and many other East European countries. Horah is a circle dance, performed to traditional Jewish songs like Hava Nagila and Klezmer. The Horah dance is performed in many variations. During the Horah, the guests lift the bride and the groom (considered as 'the king and the queen of the night') above their shoulders. While sitting on the chairs, the couple hold on to the ends of a handkerchief. The guests form a huge circle around the couple and dance in clockwise and anticlockwise directions. They perform various foot movements like kicks and other grapevine-like steps. This is accompanied by bopping up and down as well as weaving. The circle of dancers come in close to the couple and go out again.
MIZINKE is another famous Jewish wedding dance, performed particularly at the wedding reception. It is derived from the Krenzl dance. Krenzl is a Jewish custom: the bride's mother is honored by a crown at her last daughter's marriage. The bride's mother sits at the center of a circle. She is crowned with flowers and her daughters and guests dance around her on the rhythm of a lively music band. Mezinke Tanz is performed in honor of both parents, whose last son or daughter is getting married. Both parents sit at the center of a circle and the guests gift them wedding flowers.
Towards the end of the wedding reception, the guests and the close family members seat the bride in the center of the dance floor and dance around her. They also sing songs that praise her. This is a traditional custom of Jewish marriages.
One of the traditional folk dances of the Jews is the ISRAELI FOLK DANCE. Israeli folk dances are a combination of the various folk dances of Eastern Europe, which were introduced in Israel by Socialist-Zionists in the early 20th century. "Mayim" meaning "water", is an Israeli folk dance that is performed to commemorate the discovery of water at Kibbutz Na’an. Israeli Jewish dances are similar to western dances and are very lively.
YEMENITE is a traditional Jewish dance, which came into being when the Jews were not allowed to dance in public in Yemen. Yemenite dance has stationary hopping and posturing and could be performed in confined space. Today, Yemenite is a popular dance performed by the Jews during weddings and other Jewish occasions. This dance has just three steps with a short pause on the last step. It is "quick, quick and slow". There are, however, many variations in the Yemenite.

Jewish clothing

At our workshop we have learnt a lot about typical Jewish clothing. It was very worth for us to have these presentations because there is not too much opportunity to meet Jewish people wearing traditional clothes in the area where we live.
Men generally wear long trousers and often long-sleeve shirts. Women wear blouses with sleeves below the elbow and skirts that cover the knees. Kippah (or yarmulke) shows respect for God, who is thought to live in heaven above us. In Israel wearing a kippah also has a social significance. While wearing a kippah shows that you are somewhat religious, not¬ wearing one is like stating, "I'm not religious." Jewish men wear tallit on their shoulders when they pray or read the Tora. Most traditional tallits are made of wool. In some Jewish communities a tallit is given as a gift by a father to a son, a father-in-law to a son-in-law, or a teacher to a student. The gartel is generally used by Chassidic men, though sometimes by other orthodox men, during the prayer. The kittel is a white garmet worn by mainly orthodox male Jews on special occasions such as one's wedding day, during the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayer services, and during the passover Seder. Sheitel is a wig worn by Orthodox married Jewish women in compliance with the covering head requirement, related to the modest dress standard called tzeniut. Orthodox Jewish law required married women to cover their hair, and wigs, caps, turbans, kerchiefs, scarves are all acceptable. The Shtreimel is a large kippah encircled by pieces of fur. The shtreimel is generally worn by Chassidic men only after marriage. A spodik is a tall fur hat worn similar to the Shtreimel but distictly different in its size and height. The Spodik is worn by specific mail Chasidic sect members usually of Polish decent. The Ger Chassidus is most famous for this particular head gear.

eTwinning label for the project "Jewish Culture and Art"

We have got an eTwinning label for our project :))

Presentation about the Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava

Slovak students have had a presentation about the Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava. We have learnt a lot about this museum:
The Museum of Jewish Culture is a branch of the Slovak National Museum and is a prominent state-sponsored institution dedicated to preserving and promoting Jewish culture and art in Slovakia. The museum was established in 1993 together with several other specialized museums of national minorities living at the territory of Slovakia. It was established as a new state policy redefining Slovakia’s cultural identity as a part of European multicultural heritage.

The Museum maintains its permanent exhibitions in four Slovak towns and in the future anticipates establishing other exhibitions in newly restored synagogue buildings across Slovakia. Aside from permanent exhibitions, the Museum has been organizing in partnership with Slovak regional museums special exhibitions to promote Jewish culture in places that were once centers of rich Jewish communal life. Rising awareness about rich Slovak Jewish legacy is one of our main goals. Though often overlooked, the Slovak Jews played an important role in the political, economical and cultural life of the society. Therefore, the Jewish history has to be reintroduced into the general cultural context.

The Museum has been successfully organizing exhibitions abroad, which promote rich Slovak Jewish heritage. The numerous presentations in various European countries, the United States and Israel actively contributed to awareness about Slovakia and the European context of its culture.

One more birthday greeting to our eTwinning partners

We have celebrated 5th anniversary of eTwinning project and this is the way of sending greetings to our partners - via a short video made by Slovak eTwinning team :))

5th anniversary of eTwinning at Obchodná akadémia Levice Slovakia

Our school celebrated 5th anniversary of eTwinning by sending greetings to eTwinning partners and a balloon party organized at Obchodna akademia and in the streets of our town Levice. This successful eTwinning project means for our school almost 20 successful projects, most of them about human rights issues, holocaust and Jewish art and culture.

The Beatles gone kosher!

Gabriela Podžorská - Gabi a Adash

Pezinok 2009 - Pressburger Klezmer Band

Preßburger Klezmer Band - Joske (Yoshke) remix version

Jewish music in Slovakia

Jewish music is very melodic and pleasant to listen. In Slovakia there are some singers who sing this kind of music, one of the greatest singers is Ervín Schonhauser.
The leading representative of ethno / world music genre and at the same time the first Klezmer band in Slovakia. Pressburger Klezmer Band was created in 1995. Since then we have regularly performed live in Europe and Slovakia. The variety of performances is also reflected in the difference of venues in which we have played from Classical concerts to open air festivals. As indicated in the band´s name, the source of its musical inspiration is klezmer (this is folk music of Eastern European Jews) enriched by our own interpretations, original arrangements and is combined with other styles as well. In this way it is possible to feel not just „pure“ klezmer, but also elements of jazz, reggae, latino, Slovak, Roma and Balkan folk with an Oriental touch. To sum up music of the band it is emotive and dance music.

SLOVAK SYNAGOGUES

Currently, there are hundred-five identified synagogues and prayer halls in country. Few synagogues were painstakingly restored and are used for cultural purposes, though most of them met different destiny. Some had been demolished during World War II, while many more were destroyed during Communist totalitarian regime within framework of megalomaniac urban projects or as a result of targeted cleansing off of last traces of former Jewish presence in many cities (e.g. Galanta, Bratislava, Michalovce, Humenné, Hlohovec, Nové Mesto nad Váhom).

Other synagogues altered their new owners to serve different purposes and original character of building often disappeared (e.g. Huncovce, Krupina, Studienka, Skalica, Spišská Belá). Many of them stand without use in dilapidated condition and face imminent disappearance (e.g. Šaštín-Stráže, Príbeník, Veľká Ida, Stupava, Bytča). Empty and looted synagogues, whose communities disappeared together with their rabbis, cantors and Torah scrolls in flames of the Holocaust, remained in many Slovak towns as last witnesses of rich cultural past of one of once flourishing European Jewish communities.

Preserved synagogue objects in Slovakia originate mostly from the 19th or first half of the 20th centuries. Valuable buildings include Baroque synagogue in Svätý Jur, neo-Classical synagogues in Huncovce, Šarišské Lúky, Šaštín-Stráže and Liptovský Mikuláš. Nine-bay synagogues had been preserved in Stupava and Bardejov. Once fashionable Moorish style, represent the synagogues of Malacky (architect Wilhelm Stiassny), Vrbové and Prešov. Leading architect of art nouveau synagogues Leopold (Lipót) Baumhorn designed synagogues in Nitra and Lučenec, and restored synagogue in Liptovský Mikuláš. Valuable art nouveau synagogue stands also in Trenčín. Synagogues in Bratislava (architect Artur Szalatnai-Slatinský), Košice (architect Lajos Kozma) and Žilina (architect Peter Behrens) were constructed in the interwar period.

City of Košice features valuable grouping of Jewish monuments. This eastern Slovak city used to be prior to Holocaust a center with several Jewish communities representing broad spectrum of Jewish religious streams. Communal buildings of former Hassidic, Orthodox, Neolog and Status Quo Ante congregations, some of them with original inventory, had been preserved until these days.

About the eTwinning project "JEWISH CULTURE AND ART"

Jewish culture and art embraces several related phenomena; above all, it is the culture and art of communities of Jewish people, but it can also include the cultural contributions of individuals who are identified as Jews. The project has an ambition to discuss issues of Jewish culture and art, to deal with the treasures of Jewish architecture, sculpture, fine art, film, music, literature, humour, theatre, dance, clothing, cuisine, Jewish holidays and traditions and also the communities of Jews in Slovakia, Poland and Lithuania. The subjects involved in the project are: Art, Citizenship, Drama, European Studies, Foreign Languages, History, History of Culture, Informatics / ICT, Music, Politics. The project language is English. The age of involved students is 16 – 19. In the project we have been using these tools: Chat, e-mail, Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), videofilms, video conference, web and blog publishing. Aims: The project Jewish culture and art has an aim to discuss issues of Jewish c... Read more

The project Jewish culture and art has an aim to discuss issues of Jewish culture and art, to deal with the treasures of Jewish architecture, sculpture, fine art, film, music,… Work process:Read moreWork process is following: students will recognize Jewish culture and art by studying materials, visiting museums, galleries, synagogues, exhibitions of Jewish art and culture, Jewish cemeteries and discuss and exchange the materials with their partners in Slovakia, Poland a Lithuania.... They will discuss the results of their work with partners and create teaching aids for their schoolmates,... Expected results: CD, DVD, PPT presentations, word presentations, photos, web page, blogs and video-conferences.