Book details: JEWISH SCHOOLS IN POLAND, 1919-39, THEIR PHILOSOPHY AND DEVELOPMENT
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Eisenstein, Miriam
JEWISH SCHOOLS IN POLAND, 1919-39, THEIR PHILOSOPHY AND DEVELOPMENT
Imprint: New York; King's Crown Press, 1950
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 112 pages. 21 cm. First edition. With frontispiece fold out map. Issued also as thesis, Columbia University. The author examines the nature of the interwar Polish Jewish school system, explaining the intramural culture and political groupings in the Jewish community that maintained the various networks of this system: Cysho, tarbut, Agudah, and mizrachi. Her intention was to record the intellectual struggle and aspirations of polish Jewry while memory was still fresh. She covers ‘the emergence of the two main political forces in jewish life - the bund and the zionist movement’ and the various school systems, including the ultra-orthodox. There is discussion of the ideology and curriculum of each educational network. Subjects: Jews - Education - Poland. Light soiling to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (EE-4-1) Xx
Stock number:32163.