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

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

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Author / Creator:	Zalḳin, Mordekhai, author.
Uniform title:	El hekhal ha-haśkalah. English
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in Jewish history and culture ; volume 50 Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 50.
Subject:	Jews -- Education -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 19th century. Jewish religious education -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 19th century. Jewish religious education. Jews -- Education. Eastern Europe. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755294

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ISBN:	9789004307513 9004307516 9789004308206
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
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"--
Other form:	Print version: Zalḳin, Mordekhai. Modernizing Jewish education in nineteenth century Eastern Europe. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004308206

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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 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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789004307513 9004307516 9789004308206