The impact of religious day school education on Modern Orthodox Judaism: A study of changes in seven Modern Orthodox day schools and the impact on religious transmission to students and their families.
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Title
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The impact of religious day school education on Modern Orthodox Judaism: A study of changes in seven Modern Orthodox day schools and the impact on religious transmission to students and their families.
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Identifier
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AAI9630446
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identifier
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9630446
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Creator
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Charytan, Margaret.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Herbert Danzger
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Date
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1996
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies | Education, Religious
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Abstract
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Since the 1970's, sociologists studying Judaism have noted a shift to more stringent religious behavior and attitudes among Modern Orthodox Jews, a previously religiously moderate group. One theory, offered both by Charles Kranzler (1976) and Egon Mayer/Charles Waxman (1977), asserts that a significant factor is the increased role of the Jewish day school which has replaced the family as the primary means of transmitting religious behavior and values. Mayer/Waxman suggest further that a more legalistic Modern Orthodoxy has developed because of this primacy of formal learning rather than the more emotive transmission through the family. This dissertation both explores and attempts to substantiate the theory offered by Kranzler and Mayer/Waxman. Research for this substantiation, utilizing information based on interviews with principals, teachers, and parents from seven Modern Orthodox day schools in the New York City Metropolitan area, as well as material from educational publications and archival material, focuses on how the day school's role has increased, encompassing more and more of students' lives through the addition of informal education and extra curricular activities and by extending the boundaries of school influence and authority into areas previously managed by the family. In addition, research analyzes the changes in educational focus and methodology in the Modern Orthodox day school system: the increased emphasis and changed nature of Talmud study, the stress on experiential learning, and the encouragement of close relationships between teachers and students (the "rebbe role model system").;The findings demonstrate that students do ask their families to be more religiously stringent, especially in the area of kashrut and modes of dress. However, religiously stringent behavior of students has come about through their immersion into the all encompassing religious environment of the day schools combined with close relationships with role model teachers, rather than as a result of emphasis on textual learning in the day schools.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
