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The Benderly boys & American Jewish education / Jonathan B. Krasner.

By: Series: Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and lifePublication details: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 498 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611682939
  • 1611682932
Other title:
  • Benderly boys and American Jewish education
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Benderly boys & American Jewish education.DDC classification:
  • 370.89/924073 22
LOC classification:
  • LC3571 .K73 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- I 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 -- II 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 -- III 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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- I 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 -- II 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 -- III 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.

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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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