Re: Israel: Gender-segregated schools triple

On Dec 6, 6:03 am, mos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
cindys <cste...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
mm <NOPSAMmm2...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
cindys <cste...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Until the mid-20th century, there was no Israel, and American
Jewish boys and girls all went to public schools, and was little
if any Jewish education for boys or girls in the USA. Boys had a
tutor or went to somebody's house a couple of afternoons per week
after school. Girls didn't even have that.

Maybe as generalizations these are true, but my mother got the
same Jewish education that her brother did, probably a couple
afternoons a week, in Indianapolis.. My mother was born in 1908,
and her brother 1912 or so.
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It may have been different in NYC, but in the case of other cities,
I suspect each city just sort of scraped together what they could,
which wasn't much. I would be interested to know (outside of NYC)
how many members of the pre-Holocaust generation who were living
in the USA attended Orthodox sex-segregated (or even mixed sex)
Jewish day schools.  I'll bet not many.

I think you're right. Even afterwards, outside NYC there was a
dearth of quality Jewish day-schools. That was the tremendous work
of Torah u'Mesorah, to spread authentic jewish education throughout
the country.
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Exactly. Post-Holocaust. The community Jewish day school in my city
was established in 1948, the same year that the State of Israel was
established.
Best regards,
---Cindy S.
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