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Aug 14, 2017 · 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.
- 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 was born in Kraków on July 3, 1883, the third of the nine children of Bezalel and Roza (Lack) Schenirer, a family of Belzer Hasidim which also had ties with Sandzer Hasidism. She passed away, after a brief treatment for stomach cancer in Vienna, on March 1, 1935, in Kraków.
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.
Jan 25, 2021 · In her loving recreation of the beginnings of the Bais Yaakov movement and its development during the period between the two World Wars, Naomi Seidman introduces us to its fascinating visionary, Sa...
- Beverly Gribetz
- 2021
Jan 11, 2017 · A brief description of the emergence of the movement, with a focus on its methods of legitimating Torah study for girls. Suggests that such efforts might serve as a model for contemporary feminists struggling with halakhic barriers to their intellectual and spiritual growth. Weissman, Deborah.
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Jun 23, 2021 · In discovering and reviving “old-new” Jewish rituals for women, Sarah Schenirer created “kosher” substitutes for the secular nature clubs and youth movements of her milieu, as well as female variations on the Hasidic and yeshiva experiences that had excluded her as a woman.
