{"product_id":"polin-studies-in-polish-jewry-volume-30-jewish-education-in-eastern-europe-9781906764500","title":"Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 30: Jewish","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn emphasis on education has long been a salient feature of the Jewish experience. The pervasive presence of schools and teachers, books and libraries, and youth movements, even in an environment as tumultuous as that of nineteenth- and twentieth-century eastern Europe, is clear from the historical records. Historians of the early modern and modern era frequently point to the centrality of educational institutions and pursuits within Jewish society, yet the vast majority treat them as merely a reflection of the surrounding culture. Only a small number  note how schools and teachers could contribute in dynamic ways to the shaping of local communities and cultures.  This volume addresses this gap in the portrayal of the Jewish past by presenting education as an active and potent force for change. It  moves beyond a narrow definition of Jewish education by treating formal and informal training in academic or practical subjects with equal attention. In so doing, it sheds light not only on schools and students, but also on informal educators, youth groups, textbooks, and numerous other devices through which the mutual relationship between education and Jewish society is played out. It also places male and female education on a par with each other, and considers with equal attention students of all ages, religious backgrounds, and social classes.  The essays in this volume span two centuries of Jewish history, from the Austrian and Russian empires to the Second Republic of Poland and the Polish People’s Republic. The approach is interdisciplinary, with contributors treating their subject from fields as varied as east European cultural history, gender studies, and language politics. Collectively, they highlight the centrality of education in the vision of numerous Jewish individuals, groups, and institutions across eastern Europe, and the degree to which this vision interacted with forces within and external to Jewish society. In this way they highlight the interrelationship between Jewish educational endeavours, the Jewish community, and external economic, political, and social forces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume would be a valuable resource for religion  collections that have strengths in the field of religion in its social and educational context. All of the contributors are well  aware of the non-Jewish context and readers with comparative  interests will be well rewarded here.\"\u003cbr\u003eShaul Stampfer, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Place Names Note on Transliteration  Part I  Education in East European Jewish Society 1. Introduction: Education for Its Own Sake \tEliyana R. Adler 2. Repairing Character Traits and Repairing the Jews: The Talmud Torahs of Kelm and Grobin in the Nineteenth Century \tGeoffrey Claussen 3. Legislation for Education: The Munkács Regulations Enacted by Rabbi Tsevi Elimelekh of Dynów \tLevi Cooper 4. The Narrative of Acculturation: Hungarian Jewish Children’s Books during the Dual Monarchy, 1867–1918 \tDaniel Viragh 5. The Reaction of the Polish Press to Baron Maurice de Hirsch’s Foundation for Jewish Education in Galicia \tAgnieszka Friedrich 6. A Story within a Story: The First Russian-Language Jewish History Textbooks, 1880–1900 \tVassili Schedrin 7. Clothes Make the Man: A Photo Essay on Russian Jewish School Uniforms \tEliyana R. Adler 8. How Jews Gained Their Education in Kiev, 1860–1917 \tVictoria Khiterer 9. The Return of the Heder among Russian Jewish Education Experts, 1840–1917 \tBrian Horowitz 10. From Theory to Practice: The Fight for Jewish Education in Vilna during the First World War \tAndrew Koss 11. Creating a New Jewish Nation: The Vilna Educational Society and Secular Yiddish Education in Interwar Vilna \tJordana de Bloeme 12. Between a Love of Poland, Symbolic Violence, and Antisemitism: On the Idiosyncratic  Effect of the State Education System on Young Jews in Interwar Poland \tKamil Kijek 13.\tBetween Church and State: Jewish Religious Instruction in Public Schools in \tthe Second Polish Republic \tSean Martin 14. ‘Vos Vayter’? Graduating from Elementary School in Interwar Poland: From Personal Crisis to Cultural Turning Point \tAdva Selzer 15. Jewish Youth Movements in Poland between the Wars as Heirs of Kehila \tIdo Bassok 16.\tA Revolution in the Name of Tradition: Orthodoxy and Torah Study for Girls \tNaomi Seidman 17.\t‘The children ceased to be children’: Day-Care Centres at Refugee Shelters in the Warsaw Ghetto \tKatarzyna Person 18.\tThe Survival of Yidishkeyt: The Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee on Jewish Education in Poland, 1945–1989 \tAnna Sommer Schneider  Part II  New Views 19. Everyday Life and the Shetl: A Historiography \tJeffrey Veidlinger 20. Economic Struggle or Antisemitism? \tSzymon Rudnicki 21.\tGender Perspectives on the Rescue of Jews in Poland: Preliminary Observations \tJoanna Michlic 21.\tJulian Tuwim’s Strategy for Survival as a Polish Jewish Poet \tGiovanna Tomassucci 22.\tA Church Report from Poland for June and Half of July 1941 \tTomasz Szarota 23.\t‘I am in no hurry to close the canon’: An Interview with Professor David G. Roskies \tPaweł Wolski  Obituaries \tWładysław Bartoszewski \tEzra Mendelsohn \tJerzy Tomaszewski \tFeliks Tych  \tNotes on Contributors \tIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470273974615,"sku":"9781906764500","price":77.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781906764500.jpg?v=1744897857","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/polin-studies-in-polish-jewry-volume-30-jewish-education-in-eastern-europe-9781906764500","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}