I Read This Over Shabbos

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I Read This Over Shabbos is about cultivating a community where lovers of ideas, words, and books can turn Shabbos into their weekly book club. We invite you to join this expanding book club. I Read This Over Shabbos is about cultivating a community where lovers of ideas, words, and books can turn Shabbos into their weekly book club. We invite you to join this expanding book club. We invite you to join this expanding book club.

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Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement

Naomi Seidman

Sarah Schenirer is one of the most important Orthodox changemakers in modern Jewish history. The founder of the Bais Yaakov school system in interwar Poland, Schenirer prompted a fundamental shift in the education of women in the Orthodox community. In her definitive book, Seidman considers the tensions inherent to this revolution, with an eye to the relationship between change and tradition. Seidman looks at the interacting forces that influenced the movement, and the movements that the Bais Yaakov system has went through since the Holocaust and post-war era. This book is for anyone with an interest in change, tradition, women in Judaism, and how we manage to change so much while staying the same.

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Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement

Naomi Seidman

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Naomi Seidman

Families, Rabbis and Education

Shaul Stampfer

Judaism in Eastern Europe is often mythologized, which can sometimes lead us to forget the edges and nuances of that world that was. This classic work considers the intricacies of Jewish life, from marriage, to family, to leadership, with a look at the vulnerable points in this story. How learned were the common folk? How common was divorce, and women’s education? What was the rabbinate in this context? If these questions interest you, this book is a must-read.

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Families, Rabbis and Education

Shaul Stampfer

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Shaul Stampfer

Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century

Shaul Stampfer

The Lithuanian yeshivas have played an important role in shaping the Orthodox world we know today. This book is an important systematic study of these yeshivas, from 1802 to 1914. Looking at documents, memoirs, and newspaper articles, Stampfer shows us what these yeshivas were in their original context. These yeshivas have had a fundamental influence on the shaping of the contemporary state of Jewish education, so read this book if you want to know where many of the values and questions that shape our discourse emerge from. You’d be surprised, as the story of this world is always more complicated and interesting in its particularities than we might ever appreciate.

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Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century

Shaul Stampfer

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Shaul Stampfer

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