TY - BOOK AU - Zalḳin, Mordekhay PY - 2016 DA - 2016// TI - Modernizing Jewish education in nineteenth century Eastern Europe: the school as the shrine of the Jewish enlightenment T3 - Studies in Jewish history and culture volume 50 PB - Brill CY - Leiden KW - Jews KW - Education KW - Europe, Eastern KW - History KW - Jewish religious education AB - "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"-- SN - 9789004308206 LA - English N1 - by Mordechai Zalkin ID - 1619881926 ER -