Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

Charts how changes to Jewish education in the nineteenth century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itselfThe earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing from one school in Philadelphia established by Rebecca Gratz in 1838 to an entire system that educated vast nu...

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Main Author: Yares, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York, NY New York University Press [2023]
In:Year: 2023
Reviews:[Rezension von: Yares, Laura, Jewish Sunday schools : teaching religion in nineteenth-century America] (2024) (Rabin, Shari)
Series/Journal:North American Religions 22
Further subjects:B Masculinity
B Isaac Leeser
B Gender
B Reason
B Women educators (United States) History 19th century
B Rebecca Gratz
B Economy
B Education
B America
B Stereopticon
B Jewish women Religious life (United States) History 19th century
B Advertising
B Chautauqua
B Women
B Theology / RELIGION / Judaism
B Religion
B Religious Pluralism
B Reform Judaism (United States) History 19th century
B Material Culture
B Jewish religious education of children (United States) History 19th century
B Nineteenth Century
B Judaism
B Periodicals
B Prizes
B Catechisms
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Summary:Charts how changes to Jewish education in the nineteenth century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itselfThe earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing from one school in Philadelphia established by Rebecca Gratz in 1838 to an entire system that educated vast numbers of Jewish youth across the country. These schools were modeled on Christian approaches to religious education and aimed to protect Jewish children from Protestant missionaries. But debates soon swirled around the so-called sorry state of "feminized" American Jewish supplemental learning, and the schools were taken over by men within one generation of their creation. It is commonly assumed that the critiques were accurate and that the early Jewish Sunday school was too feminized, saccharine, and dependent on Christian paradigms. Tracing the development of these schools from their inception through the first decade of the twentieth century, this book shows this was not the reality. Jewish Sunday Schools argues that the work of the women who shepherded Jewish education in the early Jewish Sunday school had ramifications far outside the classroom. Indeed, we cannot understand the nineteenth-century American Jewish experience, and how American Judaism sought to sustain itself in an overwhelmingly Protestant context, without looking closely at the development of these precursors to Hebrew School. Jewish Sunday Schools provides an in-depth portrait of a massively understudied movement that acted as a vital means by which American Jews explored and reconciled their religious and national identities
ISBN:1479822302
Access:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479822300.001.0001