Author: Laura Yares
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479822280
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Charts how changes to Jewish education in the nineteenth century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itself The earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing from one school in Philadelphia established by Rebecca Gratz in 1838 to an entire system that educated vast numbers of Jewish youth across the country. These schools were modeled on Christian approaches to religious education and aimed to protect Jewish children from Protestant missionaries. But debates soon swirled around the so-called sorry state of “feminized” American Jewish supplemental learning, and the schools were taken over by men within one generation of their creation. It is commonly assumed that the critiques were accurate and that the early Jewish Sunday school was too feminized, saccharine, and dependent on Christian paradigms. Tracing the development of these schools from their inception through the first decade of the twentieth century, this book shows this was not the reality. Jewish Sunday Schools argues that the work of the women who shepherded Jewish education in the early Jewish Sunday school had ramifications far outside the classroom. Indeed, we cannot understand the nineteenth-century American Jewish experience, and how American Judaism sought to sustain itself in an overwhelmingly Protestant context, without looking closely at the development of these precursors to Hebrew School. Jewish Sunday Schools provides an in-depth portrait of a massively understudied movement that acted as a vital means by which American Jews explored and reconciled their religious and national identities.
Author: Alexander Mordecai Dushkin
Publisher: New York : The Bureau of Jewish Education
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Author: Alter F. Landesman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: Alex Pomson
Publisher: Mandel-Brandeis Jewish Educati
ISBN: 9781684580699
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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A perfect guide to those wishing to understand the contemporary Jewish day school. This book takes readers inside Jewish day schools to observe what happens day to day, as well as what the schools mean to their studenets, families, and communities. Many different types of Jewish day schools exist, and the variations are not well understood, nor is much information available about how day schools function. Inside Jewish Day Schools proves a vital guide to understanding both these distinctions and the everyday operations of these contemporary schools.
Author: Commission for the Study of Jewish Education in the United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Author: Jack Wertheimer
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584656364
Category : Child-rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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A provocative look at the current state of Jewish eduction in the United States
Author: Alfred Edersheim
Publisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Author: Alex Pomson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814335470
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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A groundbreaking study on the impact of Jewish day schools in the lives of parents and children.
Author: Mrs. D. C. Weston
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Author: Behrman House
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
ISBN: 9780867050318
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The leading thinkers in Jewish education today analyze current practices reflect on the social and psychological aspects of Bar/Bat Mitzvah provide examples of programs to replicate address concerns of those with special needs outline creative family education opportunities and successful mitzvah programs and provide strategies for teaching trope. Fifty chapters written by cantors rabbis directors of education and scholars. Results of a survey of Bar/Bat Mitzvah educators included.
