Teach Jewish History K–5 Lesson
Handout · cut-apart cards

What They Carried

Jewish Communities Around the World · Grades 3–4

How to pack the suitcases

  1. Cut out the 16 cards.
  2. Find each card’s community in the map key.
  3. Glue it into the suitcase with that number.
  4. Write the community’s name on each tag.
✂ Cut on the dashed lines
Braided challah bread
Silver jewelry made by hand
A bagel with a hole in the middle
Sand, brought from Israel, for the synagogue floor
Cookies filled with dates
Songs sung in Ladino, the Spanish-Jewish language
Drums and singing at celebrations
A round bread called dabo, baked for the holiday feast
Hebrew said in a way kept for hundreds of years
A ship sailing from Amsterdam in 1651
A long trip around the Mediterranean Sea after 1492
A clarinet playing klezmer music
Old prayer melodies, sung for hundreds of years
Families from every other dot on this map
Sweet honey pastries
A holiday called Sigd that no other community had
✂ cut along this line
Name:Date:
Eight suitcases · two cards go in each one. Match the number to the dot on your map.
pack 2 cards here
Community:
pack 2 cards here
Community:
pack 2 cards here
Community:
pack 2 cards here
Community:
pack 2 cards here
Community:
pack 2 cards here
Community:
pack 2 cards here
Community:
pack 2 cards here
Community: