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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462134703321

Autore

Krasner Jonathan B

Titolo

The Benderly boys & American Jewish education [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan B. Krasner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, Mass., : Brandeis University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-87527-6

1-61168-293-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (511 p.)

Collana

Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life

Disciplina

370.89/924073

Soggetti

Jews - Education - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series Page; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Making Order out of Chaos, 1900-1939; 1 The Making of the Master; 2 The New York Bureau and Its Critics; 3 A Few Good Men (and Women); 4 The Struggle for a Modern School System; 5 The Organization of a Jewish Education Profession; 6 Progress under Threat; Part II: Jewish Learning for Jewish Living, 1910-1945; 7 Education as Enculturation; 8 The Jewish School Curriculum and the Limits of Progressive Reform; 9 The Central Jewish Institute; 10 ''An Environment of Our Own Making''

Part III: Between ""K'lal Yisrael"" and Denominationalism,1940-196511 Unity in Diversity?; 12 Rebuilding, Renewal, and Reconciliation in the Postwar Era; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first full-scale history of the creation, growth, and ultimate decline of the dominant twentieth-century model for American Jewish education