Heritage: Civilization and the Jews

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Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (Limited Time Offer - This 3-Disc-Set is available FREE with minimum purchase of 20 Cinema Classics DVDs.)

Enter our drawing to win this DVD box set and interactive DVD-ROM. Winner of the coveted Peabody Award, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews is the monumental nine-part series spanning three millennia of Jewish history and culture. The series is hosted by former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Abba Eban, who describes it as 'a celebration of our common humanistic and moral heritage, explored through the mysteries of preservation, renewal and resonance of the Jewish people.'

Nine one-hour programs on three DVDs plus an interactive DVD-Rom.

Interactive DVD-Rom features

Compatible with Macintosh and Windows
Can be configured to run over a network
All encyclopedia articles and most historical documents can be printed
Contains scrollable timelines of Jewish and general history spanning 5800 years

Lesson plans for each of the nine chapters can be downloaded from the PBS website, or obtained by emailing PBS at guiderequest@thirteen.org or by writing to:

Heritage DVD-ROM Resource Guide
Thirteen/WNET New York
P.O. Box 245
Little Falls, NJ 07424 .

Lesson plans have been designed to allow teachers to select activities appropriate to the grade levels of their classes. Each plan includes teacher's resource pages and a student worksheet, which can be reproduced for distribution to the class. Historical background, instructions, and answers to the activities on the student worksheet appear in the teacher's resource pages.

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