Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition

by Naomi Seidman

National Jewish Book Awards 2019 Winner of the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies and Finalist for Education and Jewish Identity.

Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century Orthodox Judaism. The Bais Yaakov schools she founded in interwar Poland had an unparalleled impact on a traditional Jewish society threatened by assimilation and modernity, educating a generation of girls to take an active part in their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906764697
• ISBN13: 9781906764692
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.6"