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 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 Kraków 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Liverpool University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| First published: |
2019 |
| Authors: |
Naomi Seidman
|
| Dimensions: |
242 x 170mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
448 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-83764-390-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-83764-390-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781837643905 |
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