The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965

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231 Index Abraham Goodman House, 194 Abrahams, Abraham I., 3 Ackerman, Ari, 11–12 adaptation/assimilation, Braverman and, 88 Addams, Jane, 25, 34 Adler, Cyrus, 149 Adler, David, 118 Adler, Felix, 50 adult Jewish education, 157, 162; Braverman and, 86–87; Sherman and, 143–62 Adult Jewish Education (journal), 150, 156 advanced degrees, importance of, 160–61, 220–22 Agnon, S. Y., 124 Ahad Ha’am, 9, 11–12, 147, 149, 171 ahavat ha-aretz, 193 alumnae associations, for settlement houses, 36–37 American Association for Jewish Education , 90, 111 American Book Company, 6 American Council for Judaism, 112 American Hebrew, 123 Americanism, and Zionism, 51–52 Americanization: Weilerstein and, 137; and Zionist organizations, 132 American Jewish Archives (Cincinnati), 129 American Jewish Committee, 126 American Jewish Congress, 126; Women’s Division, 66–67 American Jewish identity, Weilerstein and, 132–35, 137–38 American Jewish synthesis, 2, 9, 13, 17, 21, 98, 104, 107, 111, 119 Amsel, Pearl, 91 analogies, between contemporary America and events in Jewish history, 111 Andersen, Hans Christian, “Thumbelina,” 124 Anderson, Benedict, 149 Anti-Defamation League, 126 Antin, Mary, 7, 50 antisemitism, latent, Jewish fears of, 135 Apple, Michael, 161 Arab-Israeli conflict, Weilerstein’s portrayal of, 133–35 Arabs, Weilerstein’s portrayal of, 133–35 Arab schools, in Palestine, 191 Arab Teachers College, Jerusalem, 191 Aristotle, Nicomachaean Ethics, 222 Aron, Isa (Israela) Ettenberg, 197, 206, 212, 217, 220, 225 art and democracy, Gezari’s views on, 181–82 art education: Braverman and, 87, 89; Gezari and, 166–85; in Jewish camps, 214–15; in Teachers Institute curriculum , 167–69 art exhibitions, traveling, 180–81 arts and crafts, Gezari and, 169 arts batei midrash, 185 Arts League (New York), 173 art workshops, Gezari and, 170, 183 assimilation, and Zionism, 52 Association of Institutions for Higher Learning in Jewish Education, 221 Association of Jewish High School Girls, 101 Association of Jewish Libraries, Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Prize, 123 Association of Reform Temples in South Africa, 112 Atid, 214 Avoda Arts, 184–85, 189 232 Index Bavli, Hillel, 159, 168, 221 Beinart, P., 20 Beis Midrash L’Morot (Stern College), 208 Beit HaYeled, 212–13 Benderly, Samson, 1, 8–11, 17–18, 77, 99, 102, 111, 149, 158, 189; and Brickner, 64–66; and Bureau of Jewish Education , 65; and Gamorans, 99, 101, 104; and Gezari, 182; and League of Jewish Youth, 101; Outline of Jewish Knowledge (with I. Goldberg), 10; rejection of competitiveness, 182 Benderly boys, 1, 145; Brickner and, 64, 69–71 Benderly girls, 69–71 Benderly model schools, 166–67 Berenstain, Michael, 131 Berk, Fred, 193 Berkowitz, Jeannette, 124 Berkson, Isaac B., 11, 67, 145 Berkson, Libbie Suchoff, 69–70 Berlin, Leah, 58 Bialik, Hayim Nahman, 67 Bialik School, 201 Bible: Ecclesiastes, 151, 180; Exodus, 111; Ezra, 110; Ruth, 110; selective use of, in teaching Jewish history, 109–10; viewed as history, 109–11 biblical stories, in art education, 180 bikkurim procession, 172–73 b’kiyut, and advanced degrees, 160 Blacker, D. J., 154 Bloch, Joshua, 121 Bloch Publishing, 121 Board of Jewish Education of Greater Washington, 117 Board of Jewish Education of New York, 181. See also Bureau of Jewish Education (New York) Borowitz, Eugene, 112, 114 Bourdieu, Pierre, 222–25 Brandeis, Louis, 51 Braverman, Libbie L., 1, 14, 16, 76–92, 175; Children of Freedom, 82–83; Children of the Emek, 82; educational philosophy, 84–87; and image management, 90–91; Libbie (autobiography ), 90; as public speaker, 80, 89–90; “Purim Carnival,” 84; Six-Day Warriors (with Silver), 83; writings, 81–82 Braverman, Sigmund, 76, 91–92 Brickner, Balfour, 66; master’s in Hebrew literature, 69–70 Brickner, Barnett, 14–15, 65, 77, 98 Brickner, Rebecca Aaronson, 1, 14–16, 64–71, 98; as “Benderly boy,” 69–71; honors for, 68–69; as public speaker, 66–68; as rebbetzin, 66 Brilliant, Nathan, 14, 66, 77–78, 83, 93n13 Brooklyn, as fictional home of K’tonton, 139n30, 139n31 Brooklyn College, 193 Brovender, Chaim, 189 Bruner, Jerome, 197 Brush, Louis, 172 Brush and Color (journal), 166, 175–76 Buechner, Frederick, 152 Bureau of Jewish Education (Cleveland), 68, 78, 85, 93n13 Bureau of Jewish Education (New York) 8–10, 104, 166, 171, 175, 178 California State University, 31 Campeas, Hyman, 177 “camp mother,” in Jewish camps, 215–16 camps, Jewish, 86, 107–8, 214–16; Achvah, 10, 182; Alton, 216; Carmelia (Vermont), 86; Cejwin, 172–73, 209–10, 212–13; Massad, 192, 214, 216; Pinegrove (Massachusetts), 86; Ramah (Wisconsin), 192, 205, 209, 214–16, 218–19...