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International handbook of Jewish education

edited byHelena Miller Lisa Grant Alex Pomson

Abstract

The International Handbook of Jewish Education, a two volume publication, brings together scholars and practitioners engaged in the field of Jewish Education  and its cognate fields world-wide. Their submissions make a significant  contribution to our knowledge of the field of Jewish Education as we start the second decade of the 21st century.

 The Handbook is divided broadly into four main sections:

This comprehensive collection of articles providing high quality content, constitutes a difinitive statement  on the state of Jewish Education world wide, as well as through a wide variety of lenses and contexts. It is written in a style that is accessible to a global community of academics and professionals. 

 

Details | Table of Contents

Community engagement

the challenge of connecting Jewish schools to the wider community

Helena Miller

pp.29-45

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_3
Culture

restoring culture to Jewish cultural education

Zvi Bekerman Sue Rosenfeld

pp.47-62

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_4
Jewish identity and Jewish education

the Jewish identity space and its contribution to research and practice

Gabriel Horenczyk Hagit Hacohen Wolf

pp.183-201

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_11
Jewish identity

who you knew affects how you Jew—the impact of Jewish networks in childhood upon adult Jewish identity

Steven M CohenJudith Veinstein

pp.203-218

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_12
Post modernism paradoxes

after enlightenment – Jewish education and the paradoxes of post modernism

Hanan A. Alexander

pp.285-300

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_17
Spirituality

the spiritual child and Jewish childhood

Michael J. Shire

pp.301-318

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_18
Art

educating with art without ruining it

Robbie Gringras

pp.339-354

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_20
Bible

teaching the bible in our times

Barry W. Holtz

pp.373-388

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_22
Environment

Jewish education as if the planet mattered

Eilon Schwartz

pp.389-406

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_23
Havruta

what do we know and what can we hope to learn from studying in havruta?

Elie Holzer Orit Kent

pp.407-417

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_24
History

issues in the teaching and learning of Jewish history

Benjamin M. Jacobs Yona Shem-Tov

pp.441-460

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_26
Life cycle education

the power of tradition, ritual, and transition

Howard Deitcher

pp.541-559

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_31
Talmud

making a case for talmud pedagogy—the talmud as an educational model

Marjorie Lehman Jane Kanarek

pp.581-596

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_33
Technology

the digital revolution that is shaping twenty-first-century Jewish education—a fleeting snapshot from the first decade

Brian Amkraut

pp.597-614

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_34
Travel

"location location location" – a practitioner's perspectives on diaspora Jewish travel

Jeremy Leigh

pp.633-649

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_36
Day schools in the liberal sector

challenges and opportunities at the intersection of two traditions of Jewish schooling

Alex Pomson

pp.713-728

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_40
Gender

shifting from "evading" to "engaging"––gender issues and Jewish adolescents

Shira D. Epstein

pp.785-803

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_44
Informal education

the decisive decade – how informal Jewish education was transformed in its relationship with Jewish philanthropy

Joseph Reimer

pp.805-823

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_45
Intermarriage

connection, commitment, and community

Evie Levy Rotstein

pp.825-841

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_46

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 2011

Pages: 841

Series: International Handbooks of Religion and Education

Series volume: 5

ISBN (hardback): 978-94-007-0353-7

ISBN (digital): 978-94-007-0354-4

Full citation:

Miller Helena, Grant Lisa, Pomson Alex (2011) International handbook of Jewish education. Dordrecht, Springer.