Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Verlag)
978-1-906764-69-2 (ISBN)
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.
Naomi Seidman is the Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016. Her previous books include Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation (2006) and The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature (2016).
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
PART I. Reading Bais Yaakov
1. `In a Place Where There Are No Men': Before Bais Yaakov
2. `A New Thing that Our Ancestors Never Imagined': Beginnings (1917--1924)
3. Institution and Charisma
4. `So Shall You Say to the House of Jacob': Forging the Discourse of Bais Yaakov
5. `A New Kind of Woman': Bais Yaakov as Traditionalist Revolution
Epilogue: Destruction and Rebirth
PART II. The Collected Writings of Sarah Schenirer
Foreword (1955): Rabbi Shlomo Rotenberg
A Note from the Central Secretariat of Bnos Agudath Israel in Poland (1933)
A Letter from the Hafets Hayim
Introduction
Sarah Schenirer's Students in America
1. Pages from My Life (5643--5678 [1883--1917/18])
2. Bais Yaakov and Bnos Agudath Israel
3. The Jewish Year
4. Jewish Women's Lives: The Sacred Obligations of the Jewish Woman
5. Ten Letters to Jewish Children
6. A Letter from Mrs Schenirer [1935]
Epilogue: With Perseverance and Faith: From Krakow to New York
Appendices
A. Schenirer, `From the Diary' (translated from Hebrew)
âSchenirer, `Excerpts from the Diary' (translated from Polish)
B. How Many Schools and Students Did Bais Yaakov Have?
C. Sarah Schenirer's Family
D. Sarah Schenirer's Krakow
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 368 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-906764-69-7 / 1906764697 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-906764-69-2 / 9781906764692 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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