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A Polish-Jewish schoolteacher born on July 15, 1883, Sara Schenirer became a pioneer of Jewish education for girls. Highly intelligent, with a strong desire to study, as a young girl, she was envious of her brothers’ opportunity to learn and interpret the Torah and wished she had similar opportunities. Recognizing her interest in education ...
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Jun 23, 2021 · Sarah Schenirer, a divorced dressmaker who lived in Krakow, Poland, was the founder of Bais Yaakov, a network of schools for Orthodox girls. By the time she died in 1935, the school she founded in 1917 had grown to hundreds of schools in Poland and beyond.
One hundred years ago, in Krakow, Poland, Sarah Schenirer changed female Jewish education forever. She merged tradition and women's rights in Orthodox Judaism, creating the groundbreaking Beis Yaakov school system.
They came to commemorate the life of a woman they had never met, but who impacted their lives profoundly. Sarah Schenirer turned the socially unacceptable idea of girls learning Torah in a Jewish school into a way of life for Jews all over the world, providing a model of how to successfully balance tradition and innovation. Modest. Radical. Pious.
- Leslie Ginsparg Klein
- Schenirer’s Biography
- The True Chronology of Rabbinic Approbation
- Sarah Schenirer’s True Legacy
In the Orthodox community, Sarah Schenirer has been valued as an example of how to appropriately enact change. There’s good reason for this. The founder of Bais Yaakov created a movement for mass Jewish education for girls. She normalized the concept that girls should receive a formal Jewish education. It was one the greatest innovations of the pas...
Sarah Schenirer was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1883 to a family of Belzer hassidim. As she grew up, she watched her contemporaries—frum girls like her, from hassidic families like hers—assimilate at an alarming rate. Schenirer concluded that without a strong Jewish education and environment providing a grounding in tradition, girls had nothing to m...
Histories of Sarah Schenirer written by men or women connected to the movement, as well as those written before 2000, consistently present an accurate chronology. Most do not even discuss the movement’s later rabbinic approval, as these authors have no implicit question of the propriety of Bais Yaakov. One example of an accurate narrative is Joseph...
Why have Orthodox biographers rewritten the story of Sarah Schenirer and the founding of Bais Yaakov in recent years? Every society remembers its history in a way that promotes and fits in with its contemporary values. In today’s Yeshivish community, there is a stress on the importance of consulting gedolim, and great trepidation towards change, pa...
- Leslie Ginsparg Klein
May 19, 2024 · Sarah Schenirer, founder of the Beis Yaakov movement, showed that change was possible within Charedi society.
Jun 19, 2020 · Who was Sarah Schenirer, and how had she helped create this new type of young Jewish woman, who in turn remembered (and misremembered) her? Sarah Schenirer is a near-mythic figure in Bais Yaakov schools, but the facts of her life are rarely taught in detail, and her own writing is virtually never studied.
