The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965
Publication Year: 2010
Published by: Brandeis University Press
Cover
Series Page
Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
Contents
Foreword
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pp. ix-x
From 1881 to 1924, when millions of east European Jews were pouring into the United States, it often seemed that the primary educational challenge to immigrants and their children was learning how to be American. However,...
Acknowledgments
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pp. xi-xii
Contributors
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pp. xiii-xiv
Introduction
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pp. 1-23
The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910– 1965, introduces the unheralded educators who planted the seeds of social reform and progressivism in the soil and soul of American Jewish education. It highlights eleven eminent women who either informed...
1. Redefining Jewish Womanhood through Informal Education: Ethel Feinman and Grace Weiner
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pp. 24-45
"It doesn’t matter what kind of house we live in, but what kind of dreams,” Ethel Feineman, resident head worker of the Emanu‑El Sisterhood, declared to her board of directors in 1919. As the directors of San Francisco’s Jewish settlement houses in the wake of turn-of-the-century eastern...
2. Jessie Sampter and the Hadassah School of Zionism
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pp. 46-62
Jessie Sampter, a young protégée of Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold, was responsible for creating the educational infrastructure that introduced Zionism to thousands of American women. She single-handedly spearheaded...
3. Rebecca Aaronson Brickner: Benderly Boy?
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pp. 63-74
In her biographical notes, Rebecca Aaronson Brickner described herself as a “teacher, educator, lecturer and organizer” and as “the first professional woman in Jewish education.”1 This self-presentation derived from a long...
4. Libbie L. Braverman: A Woman for All Seasons
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pp. 75-96
Libbie L. Braverman, born in Boston on December 20, 1900, came to cherish learning at an early age. She fell in love with it despite having to adjust to many new schools as her parents, Rabbi Morris A. and Pauline...
5. Mamie Gamoran: Modeling an American Jewish Life
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pp. 97-116
In 1967, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) published Talks to Jewish Teachers, a slim volume by Emanuel and Mamie G. Gamoran that presented a distillation of Emanuel Gamoran’s lectures delivered over his thirty-five year tenure (1923–58) as director of the Reform...
6. Sadie Rose Weilerstein through the Looking Glass: K'tonton and the American Jewish Zeitgeist
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pp. 117-141
When young fans asked children’s author Sadie Rose Weilerstein whether her beloved four-inch-high K’tonton character was real, she wasn’t sure how to answer: “If I say ‘yes,’ I confuse the children...
7. "Three Cheers for Anna!": Anna G. Sherman, Adult Jewish Educator
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pp. 142-164
My interest in Anna Grossman Sherman began with a casual conversation. Her daughter, Varda Lev, asked if I knew that her mother had taught Hebrew at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) for nearly forty years. I didn’t, but I was...
8. Temima Gezari: An Art Education Pioneer
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pp. 165-187
As a professionally trained Jewish educator and artist, Temima Gezari laid the foundation for teaching Jewish studies through the arts and for art education in Jewish schools. Gezari studied in a Benderly...
9. Hava N'halela: Tzipora Jochsberger and Her Vision for the Hebrew Arts School
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pp. 188-203
There has been a veritable explosion of interest in the arts and their place in American Jewish educational life. Jewish educational reformers are embracing the arts, once dismissed as a frill in an already too- full-curriculum, as a tool to motivate, inform, and make meaning for...
10. Sylvia C. Ettenberg: A Portrait in Practical Wisdom
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pp. 204-230
Sylvia Cutler Ettenberg was the force behind Kaplan’s Teachers Institute (TI) of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and many of its most innovative educational initiatives in the post–World War II era: Camp Ramah, the Leadership...
Index
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pp. 231-244
E-ISBN-13: 9781584659099
E-ISBN-10: 1584659092
Print-ISBN-13: 9781584658566
Print-ISBN-10: 1584658568
Page Count: 264
Illustrations: 11 illus.
Publication Year: 2010
Series Title: HBI Series on Jewish Women
