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Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov movement : a revolution in the name of tradition /

"National Jewish Book Awards 2019 Winner of the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies and Finalist for Education and Jewish Identity. Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century Orthodox Judaism. The Bais Yaakov schools she founded in interwar Poland had an unparall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seidman, Naomi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Liverpool : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization ; Liverpool University Press, 2019.
Colección:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction
  • Part one. A history of revolution
  • 1. 'In a place where there are no men' : before Bais Yaakov
  • 2. 'An new thing that our ancestors never imagined' : beginnings (1917-1924)
  • 3. 'Building Bais Yaakov' : institution and charisma
  • 4. 'So shall you say to the house of Jacod' : forging the discours of Bais Yaakov
  • 5. 'A new kind of woman' : Bais Yaakov as traditionalist revolution
  • Epilogue. 'Bais Yaakov, let us walk int he light of the Lord' : destruction and rebirth
  • Part two. Collected writings / Sarah Schenirer
  • Translator's note
  • Foreword to the 1955 edition / Rabbi Shlomo Rotenberg
  • Foreword to the 1933 edition / Central Secretariat of Bnos Agudath Israel in Poland
  • A letter from the Hafets Hayim
  • Introduction to the 1955 edition / Vichna Kaplan
  • I. Pages from my life
  • II. Bais Yaakov and Bnos Agudath Israel
  • III. The Jewish year
  • IV. Jewish women's lives : the sacred obligations of the Jewish woman
  • V. Ten letters to my Jewish children
  • VI. A letter from Mrs. Schenirer, may she rest in peace
  • VII. With perseverance and faith : from Kraków to New York
  • Appendices. A. From the diary
  • B. Sarah Schenierer's family tree
  • C. Map of Sarah Schenirer's Kraków
  • Maps of Bais Yaakov Schools, 1935
  • (1). in Poland and Lithuania
  • (2). in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary
  • E. The Bnos Agudath Israel anthem.