The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education
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The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education

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Samson Benderly inaugurated the first Bureau of Jewish Education in 1910 amid a hodgepodge of congregational schools, khayders, community Talmud Torahs, and private tutors. Drawing on the theories of Johann Pestalozzi, Herbert Spencer, and John Dewey, and deriving inspiration from cultural Zionism, Benderly sought to modernize Jewish education by professionalizing the field, creating an immigrant-based, progressive supplementary school model, and spreading the mantra of community responsibility for Jewish education. With philanthropist Jacob Schiff and influential laymen financing his plans, Benderly realized that his best hope for transforming the educational landscape nationwide was to train a younger generation of teachers, principals, and bureau leaders. These young men became known collectively as the "Benderly Boys," who, from the 1920s to the 1970s, were the dominant force in Jewish education—both formal and informal—in the United States.

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Index

Note: Page numbers in italics refer to figures.
AAJE. See American Association for Jewish Education
Aaronson, Rebecca. See Brickner, Rebecca Aaronson
Abrams, Samuel, 13
Abramson, Frances, 253
academic schedule, standardization of, 96
accommodationism, accusation of, against Benderly, 114–16
acculturation: debate on, 219; and Jewish education, 96; postwar trend toward, 8. See also Americanization
Ackerman, Walter: on Benderly program, 3, 6, 7, 10, 205; on central agencies, challenges facing, 379; on Central Jewish Institute, 260–61; on JEC consultation, 390–91; on Jewish education, 128, 130, 418–19
Addelston, Susan, 285, 319
Adler, Cyrus, 38, 134
Adventures of K’tonton (Weilerstein), 236
afordability of education, Benderly’s focus on, 113–16, 407–8
After You—What? A Message to the Jewish Mothers of America (Benderly), 231
Agronsky, Gershon, 85
Agudath Ha-Morim Ha-Ivrim B’Nu York V’Sevivoteha (Hebrew Teachers Union of New York and Vicinity), 47–49, 56, 177, 179, 213, 219
Agudath Morim Muvtalim (Union of Unemployed Teachers), 179
Ahad Ha-Am (Ginsberg, Asher): Hashiloah and, 34; influence on Benderly and group, 4, 23, 25–26, 78, 291; influence on Berkson, 245, 249, 262; Kaplan (Mordecai) on, 77; on Palestine cultural center, 249
Aitz Chaim Congregation, 425n9
AJC. See American Jewish Committee
Akiba Academy (Philadelphia), 392
Alkabetz, Solomon Halevi, 410
Allen, Isaac, 383, 385 American, Sadia, 209
American Association for Jewish Education (AAJE), 181–83, 352–53
American Council for Judaism, 343
American Indians, playing of, in Jewish culture camps, 313–15, 314
Americanization: Benderly’s support for, 27, 35, 100, 115–16; community theory of (Berkson), 244–46; as conscious product of Jewish education, 345; critics of, 205; day schools and, 392, 393, 396; food and, 301; Jewish culture camps and, 301, 302, 312–13; JTA acceptance of, 214; Principals Association support for, 96. See also Jewish-American identity
Americanized Zion...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. I Making Order out of Chaos, 1900–1939
  9. II Jewish Learning for Jewish Living, 1910–1945
  10. III Between K’lal Yisrael and Denominationalism, 1940–1965
  11. Conclusion: The Benderly Revolution
  12. Notes
  13. Index