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Becoming America Year 2
=Fall Seminar 4= Thursday, October 30, 2010 Location: Ferryway School, 150 Cross Street, Malden Map

Scheduled topic:

 * // Pluribus Unum: Jewish Women and Intermarriage //**
 * // Keren R. McGinity, Ph.D., Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan //**


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**Readings:**

 * 1) **//Joe Kraus, "How the Melting Pot Stirred America: The Reception of Zangwill’s Play and Theater’s Role in the American Assimilation Experience," MELUS Vol. 24, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 3-19. //**

For additional thoughts on the reading, check out our blog entry. For a summary of the presentation, and for a listing of additional resources that could help expand this topic for you, check the BA Blog as well.

Here are links to Dr. McGinity's book and to some other books she mentioned:

[|Still Jewish: a history of women and intermarriage in America By Keren R. McGinity] [|A Seat at the Table: A Novel of Forbidden Choices by Joshua Halberstam] [|The Promised Land by Mary Antin]

**POST SEMINAR REFLECTIONS** Please click on your grade conceptual question to post your reflection after the seminar. Overarching Focus: How have immigrants fought for American citizenship, 1840-1912? How did immigrants imagine freedom as they interpreted the founding documents? || ** Grade 5 ** What were immigrants' claims on citizenship? || ** Grades 8-10 ** How did immigrants respond to America's systemic inequalitites? ||
 * ** Grade K-3 **