| Jewish Education Worldwide: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Revised and Com Edition Contributor(s): Himmelfarb, Harold S. (Author), Dellapergola, Sergio (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819174831 ISBN-13: 9780819174833 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $170.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - General - Education | Multicultural Education |
| Dewey: 296.680 |
| LCCN: 89-33646 |
| Series: Studies in Judaism |
| Physical Information: 632 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 26 articles and commentaries collected in this volume identify the major issues in Jewish education in North and Latin America, South Africa and Australia, Western and Eastern Europe, the Muslim countries, and Israel. Jewish Education Worldwide contains quantitative data on Diaspora Jewish populations and on their Jewish educational systems, presenting statistics on enrollment trends, school characteristics, hours of Jewish and secular studies, and ideological orientation. Contents: A Cross-Cultural View of Jewish Education, by Harold S. Himmelfarb; Demography and Jewish Education in the Diaspora, by Sergio DellaPergola and Uziel O. Schmelz; Strangers to the Tradition: Idea and Constraint in American Jewish Education, by Walter I. Ackerman; Jewish Education in Canada, by Jerome Kutnick; and Jewish Education in Argentina, by Ya'acov Rubel. |