By: Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Master of Arts in the faculty of the
Teachers College, Columbia University (1983).


Abstract of Thesis

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION: AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN JEWRY AT THE CROSSROADS

• The Second World War and its Consequences
• Responses of World Jewry
• The Success of Jewish Education in America
• Historical Background and Frames of Reference
• Definitions

II. JEWISH EDUCATION IN AMERICA: AN OVERVIEW

• The Difficult and Troubled Progress of Jewish Education in America
• The Notion of Community in the Jewish Educational Configuration in America

III. JEWISH EDUCATION IN EUROPE: ENLIGHTENMENT VERSUS TRADITION

• European Jewry Prior to 1939: Intellectual Roots of Cultural Conflict
• Jewish Education and Jewish Survival at the Edge of the Abyss

IV. EUROPE: THE KILLING GROUND

• Kiddush HaShem: Sanctification of God's Name
• Survival

V. AMERICA: LAND OF CONSTERNATION AND HOPE

• Distorted Images of Jewish History
• Supplication and Consternation
• Determined Rays of Hope

VI. AMERICAN HAVEN FOR "YAVNEH AND ITS SAGES"

• The Key to Jewish Survival
• Rabbi Aharon Kotler and Lakewood
• Mir to New York Via Shanghai
• Telz
• New York Re-Newed

VII. REBBES, HASIDIM, AND AUTHENTIC KEHILLAHS

• Configurations of Education
• Hungarian Hasidim
• Boro Park: An Inter-linking of Configurations
• The Lubavitch Experience
• "Out-of-Town" Kehillahs

VIII. A COMPARISON OF TWO POST-WAR SUCCESSES:
        THE TRADITIONAL YESHIVAH AND THE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL

• The Tradition of Jewish Education
• The Second World War and the Growth of the Day Schools
• Resistance to Total Jewish Education: Dissonant Configurations
• The Influence and Contribution of Orthodox Education

IX. CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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