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Unit: Teaching à la Modiya
Cover of M. Krinsky, Ha-dibbur ha-ivri (Hebrew Speech, a manual for beginners for the study of Hebrew according to the Natural Method), Warsaw: Ha-Or, 1905. (detail)
“Teaching à la Modiya” offers strategies and multi-media primary sources for teaching selected readings related to cultural practices at the intersection of Jews, media, and religion. Each installment brings students into direct contact with the primary sources upon which a given reading is based. This research-centered pedagogy aims to inspire and prepare students to undertake primary research of their own and help them to read more analytically and confidently. Inspired by Teaching the Journal of American History, each installment includes a reading, commentary by the author, and exercises using primary sources (artifacts, photographs, film clips, audio, excerpts from a variety of texts), as well as recommended readings and links to relevant materials accessible online. “Teaching à la Modiya” is a project of the Working Group on Jews Media and Religion, which is convened by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler at New York University’s Center for Religion and Media. New York University’s Humanities Council and Center for Religion and Media provided the initial funding for developing “Teaching à la Modiya.”
