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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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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.
Tulo Schenirer and his wife Rita. These four great-nephews and nieces, and their children and grandchildren, are Sarah Schenirer’s only known surviving family. Tulo remembered his aunt, and was proud of her accomplishments all his life.
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.
One hundred years ago, Sarah Schenirer changed female Jewish education forever. She merged tradition and women's rights in Orthodox Judaism.
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.
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schenirer, sarah 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 biblical texts and rabbinic legends, a discipline begun in her youth.