Author: Doniel Zvi Kramer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Torah Umesorah - the impact of Jewish day school education on American Jewish life. an historical and Impirical study.

Author: Doniel Zvi Kramer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish day schools
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Torah Umesorah - Hebrew day schools in historical perspective and their impact on American Jewish life.

Author: Torah Umesorah, National Society for Hebrew Day Schools
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish day schools
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Steven L. Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313351902
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Advocates of religious schooling have frequently had to answer the charge that what they supported was un-American. In a book that is more than just a history, Jones tries to make sense of that charge by tracing the development of religious schooling in America over the last 125 years. He explores the rationale for religious schooling on the part of those who choose it for their children and in terms of its impact on communities, and he considers the arguments of those who criticize such schools for undermining efforts to promote national unity. The book focuses on the gradual embrace of sectarian schooling by different religious communities in America, particularly Catholics, Jews, and later, conservative Protestants (mainly in the form of homeschooling). It also considers Muslim schools, not currently a force in private schooling or the subject of much debate, but perhaps next in line to make their case for a place in America's educational landscape. Near the end of the 19th century, publicly financed, publicly administered schooling emerged as the default educational arrangement for American children. But this supremacy has not gone unchallenged. The sectarian schools that, in fact, predate public education in America have survived, even thrived, over the past century. Multiple religious communities, including those that opposed sectarian schooling in earlier generations, have now embraced it for their children.

Author: Alvin Irwin Schiff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish day schools
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Norman Drachler
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 081434349X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 971

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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

Author: Thomas C. Hunt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429785488
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Published in 1986, this selected bibliography considers private schools that are religiously affiliated. Divided into several sections the book open with chapters covering the most influential general books on religion and schooling and offers summaries and analysis of court decisions and commentaries on the issues of government aid and regulation. The book goes on to provide entries of the schools operating in the United States by seventeen religious groups, entries are annotated by experts from the field. The final section of the book considers statements on religious schools made by both public school educators and religious school advocates; formal and informal interactions between the public and religious schools; and the concept of the education of the public by religious and public schools. This work pulls together a wealth of reference material, mainly on religious schools, and provides a much-needed resource for those interested in religious schooling, whether researcher, scholar, student or policy-maker.

Author: Zev Eleff
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827612915
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Modern Orthodox Judaism offers an extensive selection of primary texts documenting the Orthodox encounter with American Judaism that led to the emergence of the Modern Orthodox movement. Many texts in this volume are drawn from episodes of conflict that helped form Modern Orthodox Judaism. These include the traditionalists’ response to the early expressions of Reform Judaism, as well as incidents that helped define the widening differences between Orthodox and Conservative Judaism in the early twentieth century. Other texts explore the internal struggles to maintain order and balance once Orthodox Judaism had separated itself from other religious movements. Zev Eleff combines published documents with seldom-seen archival sources in tracing Modern Orthodoxy as it developed into a structured movement, established its own institutions, and encountered critical events and issues—some that helped shape the movement and others that caused tension within it. A general introduction explains the rise of the movement and puts the texts in historical context. Brief introductions to each section guide readers through the documents of this new, dynamic Jewish expression.

Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881255676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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American freedom, opportunity and voluntarism has created challenges to the traditional faith and practice of all religious denominations. Jeffrey S. Gurock's pathbreaking work on the history of Jewish Orthodoxy in America has identified and explored the many ways that one religious group responded to those challenges. His model and influential studies of the American Orthodox rabbinate and synagogue have shown that attitudes favoring religious reconciliation and accommodation to the American environment were not less important than Orthodoxy's staunch resistance to that same environment. His seminal work has challenged scholars to understand that Orthodoxy is composed of a spectrum of approaches and has demonstrated that merely labelling a person or institution as "Orthodox" is only the first step towards understanding a particular stance on the most contentious of issues. American Jewish Orthodoxy in Historical Perspective brings together fifteen of Professor Gurock's most important essays with a new introduction that places his work in historiographical perspective. Beginning with his now-classic "Resisters and Accommodators" and "The Orthodox Synagogue", which provide the general viewpoint for what follows, this collection proceeds to individual case studies that examine the ways in which Orthodox Jews understood Christian religious threats, the challenges of modern Zionist ideologies, the varieties of Orthodox lay behavior, profiles of influential Orthodox rabbis, the styles of American Orthodox synagogues, and a description of one type of Orthodox day-school education.

Author: Torah Umesorah Publications
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780914131328
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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A publication dealing with America's Hebrew Day School movement in terms of its educational foundations, philosophy, achievement, and home-school relationships. An anthology of key articles reprinted from the "Jewish Parent" previously published by the National PTA of Torah Umesorah.