Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Mrs. Appel's Reading & Movie List

  • Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go
  • For an interesting dialog about contemporary (or at least, 1990s) Orthodoxy: Haym Soloveitchik, "Rupture and Recontstruction: The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy", in Tradition 28:4 (1994) -- along with Dr. Isaac Chavel's response and Dr. Soloveitchik's response to Dr. Chavel, the latter two published in Torah U-Madda, January 1, 1997
  • Heschel, The Sabbath
  • The poetry of Leah Goldberg
  • Chaim Potok, The Chosen
  • Thornton Wilder, Our Town
  • Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
  • David Ben-Gurion's speech declaring Israel's idependence, recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJObtrw_E6g&feature=related

Movies:

  • Schindler's List
  • Life is Beautiful

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