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Projected Syllabus for
8th Grade Jewish History
Week 1 Chapter
23: Jews in Eastern Europe (Part One)
I: 1, 2, 4-6, 8-10, 12, 13, 15, 16
II: 3
Week 2 Chapter
24: Jews in Eastern Europe (Part Two)
II: All
III: 1, 2, 4-6, 10, 14
Week 3 Chapter
25: The Catastrophe of Tach Vetat
I: 1
II: All
Week 4 Chapter
26: Desperation That Led to Disaster: Shabtai Tzvi
IV: 4-6, 8-21,
23-25
Week 5 Chapter
27: The Chassidic Movement: The Baal Shem Tov
I: 8-10, 11
II: 1, 5, 6
III: 2-6, 8-22, 24, 26
Week 6 Chapter
28: The Disciples of the Baal Shem Tov
II: All
IV:7, 8, 11, 13,
23, 26-33
Week 7 Chapter
29: The Gaon of Vilna
II: 1, 2, 6-12
IV: 2, 4, 5, 8,
9, 12, 16-21
Week 8 Chapter
30: Moses Mendelssohn: The Darkness of Enlightenment
II:4-15, 20-23,
25, 29, 30
V: 5, 8-10, 13,
14, 19, 20, 24, 26
Week 9 Chapter
31: Napoleon and the Jews
II: All
Week 10 Chapter
32: Emancipation: Really a Blessing?
II: 2, 3
III: All
IV: 10, 12, 13, 17, 19
Week 11
Chapter 33: The Battle Against Reform: Aileh Divrei HaBrit
III: 1, 2, 4, 11,
14, 18, 27
Week 12 Chapter
34: Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch: Torah im Derech Eretz
II: 2-5
III:
1, 3-8, 10, 12-14, 19, 21-26
Week 13 Chapter
35: Anti-Semitism in Modern Times
II: All
III: 1, 3-6,
9-11, 13, 15,17-19, 21, 23
Week 14 Chapter
36: Czarist Russia
II: 1, 3-7, 9-22,
28-32
Week 15 Chapter
37: Pogroms
III: All
Week 16
Chapter 40: Volozhin, Mother of Yeshivot, & the Mussar Movement
I: All
Weeks 17 &18
Chapter 38: Zionism
You may not use your homework pass for any part of this assignment.
Go to http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/act/17zion.html
Week 17 - Sections B & C - Work with up to
3 partners in the same JH period as you
Week 18 - Section D - You may work with one
partner in your period or alone.
Weeks 19 & 20
The Shoah
Book Report
Week 21
Immigration to America
Week 22
Immigration to Israel
Week 23
Israels Wars
Week 24 Modern
Israel
Week 25 - Modern Gedolei Yisrael
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