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This book examines the history of Jewish education from the Biblical period to the present. It traces how Jews have formally and informally transmitted their culture and worldview over the years, with particular attention to the shift from premodernity to modernity and to the unique opportunities and challenges of contemporary American Jewish education. Its authors combine historical background and insight with educational expertise to provide a robust portrait of the cultures and contexts of Jewish education and address possibilities for the future.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Pre-Modern Jewish Education
Chapter 2. The Crisis of Modernity
Chapter 3. America: Contexts and Cultures
Chapter 4. The Culture of American Jewish Schooling
Chapter 5. The Counterculture of American Jewish Education
Epilogue
About the author
Barry Chazan is Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and currently Professor of Education and Founding Director of the Master of Arts in the Jewish Professional Studies Program at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership, USA.
Robert Chazan is S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, USA.
Benjamin M. Jacobs is Visiting Associate Professor in the Experiential Education and Jewish Cultural Arts program at The George Washington University, USA.
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"The slim Cultures and Contexts of Jewish Education offers the reader an excellent concise review of Jewish history from the Bible to the present. ... All interested in developing richer language and more robust analytic tools for considering the challenges of contemporary Jewish education will benefit from reading this slim book." (Menachem Hecht, Bookjed Digest 164, listserv.biu.ac.il, Vol. 164, 2017)
