Abstract
The creation of a voluntary American Jewish educational system was an important item on the agenda of the twentieth-century American Jewish community. The nature of this new Jewish educational system was significantly influenced by the theory and practice of the twentieth-century American public school. The primary form of American Jewish education has been—and remains—the part-time Jewish supplementary or religious school. Toward the second half of the twentieth century, the Jewish day school emerged in response to changes in American public schools, and offered a sector of American Jewry more intensive Jewish schooling. The nature of the twentieth-century formats of formal Jewish schooling reflects the complexities of providing meaningful Jewish education within a dramatically new society and worldview.
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Chazan, B., Chazan, R., Jacobs, B.M. (2017). The Culture of American Jewish Schooling. In: Cultures and Contexts of Jewish Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51586-1_4
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