TY - BOOK AU - Zal�kin,Mordekhai TI - Modernizing Jewish education in nineteenth century Eastern Europe: the school as the shrine of the Jewish enlightenment T2 - Studies in Jewish history and culture SN - 9789004307513 AV - LC3585.E852 U1 - 370.89/924047 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Jews KW - Education KW - Europe, Eastern KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Jewish religious education KW - EDUCATION KW - Essays KW - bisacsh KW - Organizations & Institutions KW - Reference KW - fast KW - Eastern Europe KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 "The People Who Walk in Darkness" -- 2 The Path to Enlightenment: Education -- 3 Overcoming Obstacles -- 4 The Maskilic School: The Vision -- 5 The Child at the Center -- 6 The Maskilic School: Ensuring the Future -- 7 The Teacher -- Afterword: The Quiet Revolution -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - "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"-- UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1160158 ER -