Teachers of My Youth

An American Jewish Experience

By:

Israel Scheffler

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Hardback

Series:

Philosophy and Education

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This text consists mainly of portraits of the author's early teachers, most of whom belonged to a transitional generation of immigrant Hebrew scholars - unsung heroes of Jewish education on the American scene. Through the medium of such portraits of teaching personalities and styles, as well as firsthand descriptions of various educational settings in the New York City of the 30s and 40s, he comments on aspects of immigrant life, the tensions between religious and secular worlds, the psychology of learning and teaching the relations between universalism and particularism, the contrasts between intensive education and instrumental schooling, and related themes. These themes, although exemplified in the details of his own experience, are of quite general significance. This text should be of special interest for those concerned with Jewish life, with religious education, with the immigrant experience and with the recent American past.

Release date Australia

December 31st, 1994

Author

Israel Scheffler

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

VI, 208 p.

Pages

208

Series

Philosophy and Education

Dimensions

156x234x14

ISBN-13

9780792332329

Product ID

2437236

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