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Thursday, July 31st, 2003
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12:49a - Building Blocks
I am currently working on a fact sheet that Beth will use to write a story from the perspective of Tovah, a Jewish girl from Łódź (Yiddish: Lodzh) who migrates to Montréal in 1881 with her family after the pogrom that broke out there. Why Montréal and not New York? Because of curriculum guidelines, the US migration unit is in a different year than the international migration unit. I was determined to keep the story about the same, so decided to just change it a little bit rather than have her move to Palestine. So the stories we have are:
Migration because of religious persecution: Tovah (Russian Poland to Canada, 1881)
Labor migration: Yildiz (Turkey to Germany, 1972)
Economic/post-colonial migration: I forget the kid's name (India to Britain, contemporary)
It was tough to come up with a religious persecution example that is more contemporary. It's not that there aren't plenty of people being persecuted for their religion, it's just that in the hands of the wrong teachers (and especially the wrong parents) these things can get out of hand.
(comment on this)
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