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Jun 23, 2021 · Sarah Schenirer was a divorced dressmaker who, in 1917, founded a school in her studio in Krakow, seeking to provide Orthodox girls with a religious education and thus stem the tide of religious defection.
- Agudat Israel
Agudat Israel, the world movement of Orthodox Jewry,...
- Bais Ya'akov Schools
Sarah Schenirer was an unlikely revolutionary—a pious...
- Hasidism
Hasidism is a spiritual revival movement associated with the...
- Torah Study
Following is a survey of the trends in halakhic rulings by...
- Habsburg Monarchy
Responding to the crisis of Jewish girls who converted to...
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This drawing served as a representation of Sarah Schenirer...
- Deborah Weissman
Sarah Schenirer, a divorced dressmaker who lived in Krakow,...
- Re-dedication Ceremony of Sarah Schenirer's Gavestone, 2005
"Frau Schenirer, we are not merely placing a memorial on...
- Agudat Israel
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 ...
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
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.
Sarah Schenirer (Polish: Sara Szenirer; Yiddish: שרה שנירר; July 15, 1883 [1] - March 1, 1935 (yartzeit 26 Adar I 5695) was a Polish-Jewish schoolteacher who became a pioneer of Jewish education for girls.
SCHENIRER, SARAH (1883 – 1935), was a pioneer in religious education for Jewish females and founder of Bais ̀ Ya ʿ a ḳ ov educational institutions. Born to a Belzer Hasidic family in Krak ó w, descendant of rabbinic scholars, Schenirer was a devout Jew who worked as a seamstress by day and spent her evenings in the private study of ...
