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  • Teaching Historical Narratives

    A Philosophical Inquiry into the Virtues of Historical Interpretation

    by Jon A. Levisohn ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education
    With this book Jon Levisohn argues that current history education is set up in a way that sees students of history at one end of a continuum with the academic experts in the field of history at the other, and where the goal of history education is to help students to think like historians.Building on a critical engagement with Carl Hempel, Hayden White, and David Carr, as well as contemporary work ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Teaching and Learning in Jewish Day Schools

    Edited by Jonathan B. Krasner, Jon A. Levisohn, Sharon Avni ...
    Series series Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education
    Examines how day schools are educating diverse Jewish youth in a variety of content areas.Teaching and Learning in Jewish Day Schools offers an important analysis of Jewish day school classrooms today. In light of difficulties initiating, evaluating, and sustaining educational innovation, this volume takes stock of what is happening among students and teachers in contemporary Jewish day school ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Beyond Jewish Identity

    Rethinking Concepts and Imagining Alternatives

    Edited by Jon A. Levisohn, Ari Y. Kelman ...
    There is something deeply problematic about the ways that Jews, particularly in America, talk about “Jewish identity” as a desired outcome of Jewish education. For many, the idea that the purpose of Jewish education is to strengthen Jewish identity is so obvious that it hardly seems worth disputing—and the only important question is which kinds of Jewish education do that work more effectively or ... Read more

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  • Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning

    Making Meaning at Many Tables

    Edited by Diane Tickton Schuster ...
    What do we mean by "adult Jewish learning"? Where is contemporary adult Jewish learning taking place? What kinds of learning matter to adult Jewish learners in the twenty-first century? Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning boldly tackles these questions through the exploration of various learners' experiences in diverse circumstances: couples exploring a Jewish museum, actors co-creating a Jewish ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Sarah Bunin Benor ...
    Series series Jewish Cultures of the World
    Winner, 2013 Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish LiteratureWhen non-Orthodox Jews become frum (religious), they encounter much more than dietary laws and Sabbath prohibitions. They find themselves in the midst of a whole new culture, involving matchmakers, homemade gefilte fish, and Yiddish-influenced grammar. Becoming Frum explains how these newcomers learn Orthodox language and culture through ... Read more

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  • Orthodox by Design

    Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution

    by Jeremy Stolow ...
    Orthodox by Design, a groundbreaking exploration of religion and media, examines ArtScroll, the world’s largest Orthodox Jewish publishing house, purveyor of handsomely designed editions of sacred texts and a major cultural force in contemporary Jewish public life. In the first in-depth study of the ArtScroll revolution, Jeremy Stolow traces the ubiquity of ArtScroll books in local retail markets, ... Read more

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  • The Case for Jewish Peoplehood

    Can We Be One?

    by Dr. Erica Brown, Dr. Misha Galperin ...
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  • The Holocaust Across Generations

    Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors

    by Janet Jacobs ...
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  • Principles and Pedagogies in Jewish Education

    by Barry Chazan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is aimed at improving contemporary educational practice by rooting it in clear analytical thinking. The book utilizes the analytic approach to philosophy of education to elucidate the meaning of the terms “education,” “moral education,” “indoctrination,” “contemporary American Jewish education,’’“informal Jewish education,” “the Israel experience,” and “Israel education.” The final ... Read more

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  • Jewish Family

    Identity And Self-Formation At Home

    by Alex Pomson, Randal F. Schnoor ...
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    In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor advance a new appreciation for the deep significance of Jewish family in developing Jewish identity. This book is the result of ten years of research focused on a small sample of diverse families. Through their work, the authors paint an intricate picture of the ecosystem that the family unit provides for ... Read more

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  • A Philosophy of Israel Education

    A Relational Approach

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    This book develops a new philosophy of Israel education. “Person-centered” Israel education is concerned with developing in individual learners the ability to understand and make rational, emotional, and ethical decisions about Israel, and about the challenges Israel regularly faces, whether they be existential, spiritual, democratic, humanitarian, national, etc. Chazan begins by laying out the ... Read more

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  • A Minyan of Women

    Family Dynamics, Jewish Identity and Psychotherapy Practice

    Edited by Dorith Brodbar, Beverly Greene ...
    This book explores the diverse manner in which family dynamics shaped Jewish identities in ways that were unique and directly connected to their experiences within their families of origin. Highlighted is the diversity of experience of ethnic identity within members of a group of women who are similar in many respects and who belong to an ethnic group that is often invisible. Jewish people, like ... Read more

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