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The Benderly boys & American Jewish education /

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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Krasner, Jonathan B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2011.
Series:Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I Making Order out of Chaos, 1900-1939
  • The Making of the Master: Benderly in Baltimore
  • The New York Bureau and Its Critics
  • A Few Good Men (and Women)
  • The Struggle for a Modern School System
  • The Organization of a Jewish Education Profession
  • Progress under Threat: Jewish Education and the Great Depression
  • II Jewish Learning for Jewish Living, 1910-1945
  • Education as Enculturation: Progressivism and the New York Bureau
  • The Jewish School Curriculum and the Limits of Progressive Reform
  • The Central Jewish Institute: The School Center as a Model for the Modern Talmud Torah
  • ''An Environment of Our Own Making'': The Origins of the Jewish Culture Camp
  • III Between K'lal Yisrael and Denominationalism, 1940-1965
  • Unity in Diversity? The Jewish Education Committee
  • Rebuilding, Renewal, and Reconciliation in the Postwar Era
  • Conclusion: The Benderly Revolution.