About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
HOW CAN THE JEWISH PEOPLE SUCCESSFULLY RE-ESTABLISH THEIR FAITH AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN SICILY?
Objectives: SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted secondary source text reading on the Jewish Expulsion from Sicily in the 15th Century toward building skills necessary for the New York State World History Regents
Citations:
500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim a Lost History (April 24, 2017) – https://nyti.ms/2pWkBrf
Quatriglio, Giuseppe (1985) A Thousand in Sicily: From the Arabs to the Bourbons. Palermo, Italy: Ediprint
History of Sicily
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sicily
Connections to Today -- Anti-Semitism in the USA Today:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/03/us/jewish-cemetery.vandalized-headstones-new-york/
