CAROL K. INGALL is the Dr. Bernard Heller Professor of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
"Experiences in the American hinterlands have influenced the lives
of even inveterate New Yorkers; the artist and educator Temima
Gezari, for example, born in Pinsk in 1905 and raised in the
Brownsville section of Brooklyn, road tripped to New Mexico with a
couple of friends in 1931 to attend the Taos School of Art. Upon
her return to New York--and after some tutorials from Diego
Rivera--she painted the murals for Mordecai Kaplan's Society for
the Advancement of Judaism. Gezari's pedagogical interventions are
the subject of one of the essays in a 2010 collection edited by the
Jewish Theological Seminary's Carol Ingall, newly available in a
more affordable paperback, titled The Women Who Reconstructed
American Jewish Education, 1910-1965 (Brandeis, March). Other
influential pedagogues and pioneers profiled here include
Hadassah's Jessie Sampter, ardent Hebraist Anna G. Sherman, and
Sadie Rose Weilerstein, author of the beloved K'tonton
books."--Tablet
"Ingall's research, along with that of the seven other essayists in
this book, rights an historic wrong. Eleven impressive Jewish women
have been brought back to life in the pages of this important
collection of essays." --Jewish Voice and Herald
"The book stands as an important contribution to the history of
Jewish education in the United States. In particular, the
biographies help to render a fuller picture of Jewish education as
a field by examining the major contributions of significant women
who were teachers, artists, writers, community activists, and
organizational leaders. To understand this vital period in American
Jewish history--about which so many volumes have been devoted to
the Benderly boys and their disciples--it is essential we hear the
voices of the creative and productive women of these decades.
Ingall's volume has amplified those voices for all to hear."--The
American Jewish Archives Journal
"The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education performs
valuable service in recalling to life the central role women played
in the development of American Jewish education in all its variety.
Each essay makes a compelling case for the importance of an
individual woman who, regardless of obstacles, offered her skills,
talents, and ideas to a field where she could achieve success both
for herself and her community."--H-Net
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