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Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement - A Revolution in the Name of Tradition (Hardcover)
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Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement - A Revolution in the Name of Tradition (Hardcover)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century
Orthodox Judaism. The Bais Yaakov schools she founded in interwar
Poland had an unparalleled impact on a traditional Jewish society
threatened by assimilation and modernity, educating a generation of
girls to take an active part in their community. The movement grew
at an astonishing pace, expanding to include high schools, teacher
seminaries, summer programmes, vocational schools, and youth
movements, in Poland and beyond; it continues to flourish
throughout the Jewish diaspora. Naomi Seidman explores the movement
through the tensions that characterized it, capturing its
complexity as a revolution in the name of tradition. She presents
the context which led to its founding, examining the impact of
socialism, feminism, Zionism, and Polish electoral politics on the
process, and recounts its history, from its foundation in interwar
Krakow to its near-destruction in the Holocaust, and its role in
the reconstruction of Orthodoxy in subsequent decades. A vivid
portrait of Schenirer shines through. The book includes selections
from her writings published in English for the first time. Her
pioneering, determined character remains the subject of debate in a
culture that still regards innovation, female initiative, and
women's Torah study with suspicion.
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