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What is this material?
The materials on this site are organized into resource kits, each one exploring a thought-provoking text or theme. Each kit includes primary and secondary sources—including poems, photographs, audio recordings, film excerpts, and songs—as well as a guide to using them in the classroom, making it easy for teachers to enrich and expand their curricula.

These resources were born out of the Yiddish Book Center’s Great Jewish Books Teacher Workshop, funded by the Jim Joseph Foundation. From 2018-2020, we brought together educators from Jewish day schools across the country to read and discuss key works of modern Jewish literature and culture,  and to develop materials to use in their classrooms. The original teachgreatjewishbooks.org site was co-curated and co-edited by Josh Lambert and Lesley Yalen, with Ozzy Gold-Shapiro and Rebecca White as the site's assistant editors. It is now managed by Jennifer Young, the Yiddish Book Center's educational programs manager. 

A note about the resources:
All materials are intended for educational use only and are provided to users at no cost. We are eager to appropriately credit the creators and owners of any material we use, and we work hard to obtain permission for use when permission is required. If you are the creator or owner of any materials on the site and object to their appearance here or to their attribution, please contact us at [email protected].