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Sara Schenirer: One Woman’s Impact on the World. July 15, 1883 – March 1, 1935. A Polish-Jewish schoolteacher born on July 15, 1883, Sara Schenirer became a pioneer of Jewish education for girls.
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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.
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.
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.
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’s parents were Zalel (Bezalel) Schenirer (1853-1911) and Rozalia (Roza) Lack Schenirer (1855-1937). The family owned a dry-goods store and were Belzer Hasidim; Bezalel also was a gifted cantor.
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Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century Orthodox Judaism. The Bais Yaakov schools she founded in interwar Poland had an unparalleled impact on a traditional Jewish society threatened by assimilation and modernity, educating a generation of girls to take an active part in their community.