Milk and honey in the snow
Subtitle: teaching learning and knowing Israel in a Toronto Jewish high school
By: by Emily Rose Antflick.
Publisher: University of Toronto
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780494401231
Subjects: Jewish day schools -- Ontario -- Toronto.; Jewish teenagers -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Attitudes.; Jews -- Attitudes toward Israel.; Israel and the diaspora.; Israel -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Other titles: Teaching learning and knowing Israel in a Toronto Jewish high school
Description: This thesis explores the construction of identity through the teaching and learning of Israel in a Toronto Jewish community high school. Using a reflexive ethnographic methodology, the author examines the ways in which students in a grade twelve Jewish History class understand and express the discourse surrounding modern Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This thesis aims to communicate what the implications of diaspora Jewish students’ relationships with Israel are on their identities as Canadians and as Jews living outside of Israel. Antflick uses fragments from personal journals and reflexive vignettes from childhood through the present to infuse the text with a nuanced and honest authorial voice. These  reflections, combined with data collected from observations and interviews with staff and students, demonstrate an imbalance in the cognitive and affective dimensions of Jewish identification with Israel. The author suggests that in today’s socio-political climate, Jewish diaspora high schools must teach critically about Israeli issues, providing students with a solid intellectual backing to support their already strong emotional connection to the Jewish State.
Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 243-253)
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