From Home to Home: Jewish Immigration to America is for every family of every culture. Parents, children and grandchildren are sure to love this amazing exhibit, on loan from the Jewish Museum of Florida. From Home to Home will inspire visitors of all ages and backgrounds to learn more about their own family origins. Fun-filled and educationally rich, it will serve as a valuable tool for encouraging discussions at home and in classrooms of how we are all more alike than different, to help dispel stereotyping and bigotry and foster mutual appreciation.
Because Florida
is a state of immigrants with more than 155 ethnic groups represented in local
schools, nearly everyone's family, in some generation, has experienced moving
to a new country.
From Home to Home: Jewish Immigration to America is
specially designed for children ages 6 to 12 and allows them and their families
to experience the process of moving to a new home. It will encourage family
discussions of arriving in America and the hopes and dreams that brought them
here.
Use visual arts as a means to connect with some of the many
ethnic groups in Florida by creating art that mimics, in style, technique
and materials, original arts and crafts that emanate from and symbolize various
cultures and countries
· Using a real
scale to weigh tangible arguments for staying in or leaving home.
· Participating
in a family conversation in Germany in the wake of the Nuremberg Laws of the
1930s
· Deciding which
items are truly important to take and packing them into a small trunk. What is
important to bring? What can one leave?
· Shopping in a
supermarket where everything is in a foreign language
· Trying to fit a
family of 10 into a small apartment
· Finding their
way to school
· Building a
neighborhood and deciding on the character of a community through the
democratic process
· "Americanizing"
products brought from their countries of origin
From Home to Home
explores issues related to relocating to a new land, such as leaving behind the
familiarity of neighborhoods, schools, friends, food and language. The exhibit
uses the Jewish immigration experience as an example of the acculturation
process of people from all backgrounds and cultures, exploring the similarities
and challenges people face. From
Home to Home's interactive activity stations helps children
explore many themes: Why Move? Where to Go? What to Take? New Beginnings;
Helping Each Other; Change and Influence; Creative Expression.
