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Jewish Sunday Schools - Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)
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Jewish Sunday Schools - Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)
Series: North American Religions
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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.
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