Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America by Laura Yares sync error The bilingual facing-page format

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Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America by Laura Yares sync error The bilingual facing-page formatCharts how changes to Jewish education in the nineteenth century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itselfThe earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female led, growing from one school in Philadelphia established by Rebecca Gratz in 1838 to an entire system that educated vast numbers of Jewish youth across the country. These schools were modeled on Christian approaches to religious education and aimed to protect Jewish children