Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America

by Penny Schine Gold

Book Overview

The Bible has played a critical role in the story of Judaism, modernity, and identity. Penny Schine Gold examines the arena of children's education and the role of the Bible in the reshaping of Jewish identity, especially in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, when a second generation of Eastern European Jews engaged the task of Americanizing Jewish culture, religion, and institutions. Professional Jewish educators based in the Reform movement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801436672
• ISBN13: 9780801436673
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher