Introduction -- Making Order out of Chaos, 1900-1939 -- The Making of the Master: Benderly in Baltimore -- The New York Bureau and Its Critics -- A Few Good Men (and Women) -- The Struggle for a Modern School System -- The Organization of a Jewish Education Profession -- Progress under Threat: Jewish Education and the Great Depression -- Jewish Learning for Jewish Living, 1910-1945 -- Education as Enculturation: Progressivism and the New York Bureau -- The Jewish School Curriculum and the Limits of Progressive Reform -- The Central Jewish Institute: The School Center as a Model for the Modern Talmud Torah -- ''An Environment of Our Own Making'': The Origins of the Jewish Culture Camp -- Between K'lal Yisrael and Denominationalism, 1940-1965 -- Unity in Diversity? The Jewish Education Committee -- Rebuilding, Renewal, and Reconciliation in the Postwar Era -- Conclusion: The Benderly Revolution. I II III
The first full-scale history of the creation, growth, and ultimate decline of the dominant twentieth-century model for American Jewish education.
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