1619881926

Modernizing Jewish education in nineteenth century Eastern Europe : the school as the shrine of the Jewish enlightenment / by Mordechai Zalkin

Englisch (Sprache des Originals: Hebraeisch)

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

© 2016

192 Seiten

El hekhal ha-haśkalah . Zalḳin, Mordekhai

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Modernizing Jewish education in nineteenth century Eastern Europe

978-90-04-30820-6 Hardback

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-04-30751-3 (Fernzugriff) : (e-Book)

*Osteuropa / Juden / Erziehung / Aufklärung / Geschichte 1800-1900

*Jews -- Education -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 19th century ; Jewish religious education -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 19th century

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: LC3585.E852

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 370.89/924047;

"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"--