The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education

The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education
Author: Jonathan B. Krasner
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1611682932

The first full-scale history of the creation, growth, and ultimate decline of the dominant twentieth-century model for American Jewish education

A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States

A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States
Author: Norman Drachler
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 971
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 081434349X

Entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education. This book contains entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German—books, research reports, educational and general periodicals, synagogue histories, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and encyclopedias—on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education

What We Now Know about Jewish Education

What We Now Know about Jewish Education
Author: Roberta Louis Goodman
Publisher: Torah Aura Productions
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1934527076

When What We Know about Jewish Education was first published in 1992, Stuart Kelman recognized that knowledge and understanding would greatly enhance the ability of professionals and lay leaders to address the many challenges facing Jewish education. With increased innovation, the entry of new funders, and the connection between Jewish education and the quality of Jewish life, research and evaluation have become, over the last two decades, an integral part of decision making, planning, programming, and funding.

International Handbook of Jewish Education

International Handbook of Jewish Education
Author: Helena Miller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1299
Release: 2011-04-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9400703546

The International Handbook of Jewish Education, a two volume publication, brings together scholars and practitioners engaged in the field of Jewish Education and its cognate fields world-wide. Their submissions make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the field of Jewish Education as we start the second decade of the 21st century. The Handbook is divided broadly into four main sections: Vision and Practice: focusing on issues of philosophy, identity and planning –the big issues of Jewish Education. Teaching and Learning: focusing on areas of curriculum and engagement Applications, focusing on the ways that Jewish Education is transmitted in particular contexts, both formal and informal, for children and adults. Geographical, focusing on historical, demographic, social and other issues that are specific to a region or where an issue or range of issues can be compared and contrasted between two or more locations. This comprehensive collection of articles providing high quality content, constitutes a difinitive statement on the state of Jewish Education world wide, as well as through a wide variety of lenses and contexts. It is written in a style that is accessible to a global community of academics and professionals.

The Chosen Few

The Chosen Few
Author: Maristella Botticini
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691144877

Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process.

Learning and Community

Learning and Community
Author: Joseph and Martha Mendelson Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Archives of Conservative Judaism Jack Wertheimer
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2009-07-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1584658290

Rich ethnographies of Jewish supplementary schools drawn from every region in the U.S.

Jewish Life in Small-Town America

Jewish Life in Small-Town America
Author: Lee Shai Weissbach
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300127650

In this book, Lee Shai Weissbach offers the first comprehensive portrait of small-town Jewish life in America. Exploring the history of communities of 100 to 1000 Jews, the book focuses on the years from the mid-nineteenth century to World War II. Weissbach examines the dynamics of 490 communities across the United States and reveals that smaller Jewish centers were not simply miniature versions of larger communities but were instead alternative kinds of communities in many respects. The book investigates topics ranging from migration patterns to occupational choices, from Jewish education and marriage strategies to congregational organization. The story of smaller Jewish communities attests to the richness and complexity of American Jewish history and also serves to remind us of the diversity of small-town society in times past.

Jewish Roots in Southern Soil

Jewish Roots in Southern Soil
Author: Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781584655893

A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture.