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Subject Guide: Education

Girls Learning in a Classroom. [Cir 1934] 2009.555 Yeshiva University Museum.

Black and white photo of a classroom of girls seating writing in notebooks as an instructor helping two students

Library Materials

American Jewish Historical Society

Chipkin, Israel S., Ṿiṭman, Ḳalman, Greenberg, Simon, Mark, Yudel, Lookstein, Joseph Hyman, Azrieli, Shlomoh, Gamoran, Emanuel, Schoolman, Albert P, and American Association for Jewish Education. Jewish Schools in America : A Description of Types of Jewish Schooling in Jewish Communities in the United States and Canada. New York: American Association for Jewish Education, 1947.

Colodner, Solomon. Classroom Management : A Practical Manual and Guide for Teachers in Jewish Schools. New York: Jewish Education Press, 1966.

Kamen, Robert Mark. Growing up Hasidic : Education and Socialization in the Bobover Hasidic Community. Immigrant Communities & Ethnic Minorities in the United States & Canada 6. New York: AMS Press, 1985.

Kopulsky, Andrew. The Story of Jewish Los Angeles : A Teacher's Guide for the Fourth Grade Jewish Day School. Los Angeles: S.n., 1980. [Includes student activity book]

Krasner, Jonathan B. The Benderly Boys & American Jewish Education. Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2011.

Pasternack, Susan., Norman, Ralph, and Brown, Julian. From the Beginning : A Picture History of the First Four Decades of Brandeis University. Mass.: Brandeis University, 1988.

Pomson, Alex, and Schnoor, Randal F. Back to School : Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008.

Marcus, Jacob Rader. Isaac Mayer Wise and the College He Built. Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives.

Radin, Beryl A. Leaving South Dakota : A Memoir of a Jewish Feminist Academic. 2017.

Wertheimer, Jack. Family Matters : Jewish Education in an Age of Choice. Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2007.

Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes. Jews at Williams : Inclusion, Exclusion, and Class at a New England Liberal Arts College. 2013.

 

American Sephardi Federation

Brown, Jonathan M., and Kutler, Laurence. Nelson Glueck : Biblical Archaeologist and President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Detroit, Mich.: Hebrew Union College Press; Distributed by Wayne State University Press, 2005.

Brown, Steven M. Our Sephardic Jewish Heritage : A Curriculum of Study for Middle and High School Students. New York: American Sephardi Federation, 2001.

Gerber, Jane S. Sephardic Studies in the University. Madison [N.J.] : London ; Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; Associated UPress, 1995.

Nulman, Louis. The Parent and the Jewish Day School : Reactions of Parents to a Jewish All-day School / Forewords by Joseph Kaminetsky [and] Lawrence C. Little. Scranton: Parent Study Press, 1956.

Zucker, George K. Sephardic Identity : Essays on a Vanishing Jewish Culture. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland &, 2005.

 

Center for Jewish History

Livstone, Danna Rose., and Jewish Theological Seminary of America. William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education. Jewish Parents and Religious School: Recollections and Decisions. 2011. [Available online]

Salomon, Laya., Glanz, Jeffrey, and Yeshiva University. The Decision to Teach: Why Orthodox Jewish Day School Teachers Choose the Profession. 2010.

Yussman, Yonatan., and University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Education Leadership. Prayer in Jewish Community High Schools: Generation Y Jews in an Era of Unlimited Choices. 2011. [Available online, on-site at CJH]
 

Leo Baeck Institute

Crawford, Sally, Ulmschneider, Katharina, and Elsner, Jaś. Ark of Civilization : Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945. First ed. 2017.

Drachler, Norman. Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States. S.l.: Wayne State University, 2017.

Gross, Zehavit, and Stevick, Doyle. As the Witnesses Fall Silent : 21st Century Holocaust Education in Curriculum, Policy and Practice. 2015.

Hirsch, Luise. From the Shtetl to the Lecture Hall : Jewish Women and Cultural Exchange. Studies in Judaism. 2013. 

Koerrenz, Ralf, and Horn, Friederike Von. The Lost Mirror : Thinking about Education in the Hebrew Tradition. Culture and Education (Ferdinand Schöningh (Firm)) ; v. 3. 2020.

Leff, Laurel. Well worth Saving : American Universities' Life-and-death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe. 2019.

Schor, Laura S. The Best School in Jerusalem : Annie Landau's School for Girls, 1900/1960. 2013. HBI Ser. on Jewish Women.

Shinagel, Michael. Holocaust Survivor to Harvard Dean : Memoirs of a Refugee's Progress. 2016.

Silver, Jacqueline. ...And Yet They Learned : Education of Jewish Children in Nazi Occupied Areas between 1933-1945. 2015.

Totten, Samuel, and Feinberg, Stephen. Essentials of Holocaust Education : Fundamental Issues and Approaches. First ed. 2016.

 

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Albarelli, Gerry. Teacha! : Stories from a Yeshiva. Thetford, VT: Glad Day Books, 2000.

Aronow, Sara Snyder. Hava Nagilah : Classroom Games in Rhyme / by Sara Snyder Aronow ; Illustrated by Cecilia G. Waletzky. New York: Jewish Education Committee Press, 1963.

B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations. The Hillel Guide to Jewish Life on Campus : A Directory of Resources for Jewish College Students. Washington, D.C.: B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations, 1990.

Fader, Ayala. Mitzvah Girls : Bringing up the next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Freidenreich, Fradle. Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910-1960; Foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna. Teaneck, NJ: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 2010.

Goldman, Solomon. Education among Jewish Displaced Persons: The Sheerit Hapletah in Germany, 1945-1950. 1978.

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Chronicle (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion), 1977. [Issues from 1999-2018 available online here]

Ingall, Carol K. The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965. HBI Series on Jewish Women. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2010.

Kadar, Naomi Prawer, and Roskies, David G. Raising Secular Jews : Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children,1917-1950. Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life. 2016.

Nardi, Noah. A Survey of Jewish Day Schools in America / by Noah Nardi ... New York, 1944.

Rauch, Eduardo L., Zisenwine, David, and Schers, David. The Education of Jews and the American Community: 1840 to the New Millennium. Studies in Jewish Culture Identity and Community. Tel Aviv: Jaime and Joan Constantiner School of Education, 2004.

Schulman, Elias. A History of Jewish Education in the Soviet Union. New York: Ktav Pub. House, 1971.

Seidman, Naomi. Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement : A Revolution in the Name of Tradition. Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Series). 2019.

Stampfer, Shaul. Families, Rabbis, and Education : Traditions in Jewish Society in Nineteenth-century Eastern Europe. Portland, Or.: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009.

Varon, Jeremy. The New Life : Jewish Students of Postwar Germany. 2014.