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Teaching with Sephardi Spaces

Bring Sephardic history, migration, language, literature, and cultural memory into the classroom through interactive maps, life stories, primary sources, and digital activities.

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lesson plans
6
subject areas
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that grow the database
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Teaching Resources

Flexible materials for secondary school, university, language learning, and public-history settings.

Maps · Routes · Places

Migration & Mapping

Trace individual lives, family journeys, community movement, and historical migration patterns.

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Biography · Oral history

Life Stories

Build first-person narratives from biographical and archival evidence, then compare experiences across time and place.

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Ladino · Hebrew · Multilingual

Language & Literature

Compare texts, identify themes, and examine how language changes across migration and generations.

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Audio · Video · StoryMaps

Digital Storytelling

Create short audio diaries, timelines, maps, and digital exhibitions grounded in historical research.

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Documents · Images · Evidence

Primary Sources

Read photographs, letters, books, and archival records closely and place each source in context.

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Ready to use · Adaptable

Classroom Activities

Start with concise activities for history, literature, digital humanities, language, and genealogy.

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Ready-to-use lesson plans

Each plan is a printable PDF with objectives, a timed sequence, assessment, and links back into the platform.

Music · 60 min

Songs of Sepharad

Read Ladino music as evidence of migration, from Iberia to Salonika and the Americas.

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Foodways · 60 min

Tastes of the Diaspora

Trace a dish and its ingredients as a record of a community moving between regions.

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Oral history · 3-week project

Voices of the Community

Students interview community members and add biographical records to the database.

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Mapping · 2-week project

Mapping the Sephardic World

Students research and add five or more Sephardic sites and objects to the world map.

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Migration studies · Capstone

Charting the Best Path

Teams compare migration routes and argue which path served people best.

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Language · 60 min

Words in Motion

Read the languages in a life story as a record of where a person lived and which generation they belonged to.

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Student contributions

Projects that grow the platform

Multi-week projects where student work is contributed back into the database and the world map. Download the full plans above.

Oral history

Voices of the Community

Students interview community members and submit biographical records to the database.

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Geography

Mapping the Sephardic World

Students research and add five or more sites and objects to the world map.

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Migration studies

Charting the Best Path

Teams compare migration routes and argue which path served people best.

Open the map →
Guided inquiry

AI-Supported Classroom Exploration

Use natural-language questions to compare biographies, identify themes, generate discussion prompts, and turn database findings into new research questions.

  • Compare migration routes from Salonika and Rhodes.
  • Find women connected to Sephardic education.
  • Create discussion questions about language and migration.

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Create a discussion activity using Benjamin of Tudela and the world map.

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