Modernizing Jewish education in nineteenth century Eastern Europe: the school as the shrine of the Jewish enlightenment
"In Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe, Mordechai Zalkin offers a new path through which the Eastern European traditional Jewish society underwent a rapid and significant process of modernization - the Maskilic system of education. Since the beginning of the ninet...
| Published in: | Studies in Jewish history and culture |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2016]
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| In: |
Studies in Jewish history and culture (volume 50)
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| Series/Journal: | Studies in Jewish history and culture
volume 50 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Jews
/ Education
/ Enlightenment
/ History 1800-1900
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| Further subjects: | B
Jewish religious education (Europe, Eastern)
History 19th century
B Jews Education (Europe, Eastern) History 19th century |
| Summary: | "In Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe, Mordechai Zalkin offers a new path through which the Eastern European traditional Jewish society underwent a rapid and significant process of modernization - the Maskilic system of education. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century a few local Jews, affected by the values and the principles of the European Enlightenment, established new private modern schools all around The Pale of Settlement, in which thousands of Jewish boys and girls were exposed to different disciplines such as sciences and humanities - a process which changed the entire cultural structure of contemporary Jewish society"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004308202 |