Teach Your Children When They Are Young: Contemporary Jewish Education in the United States, CMJS Research Report 8

Publication Date: January 1993

Publisher: Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies

Author(s): Sylvia Barack Fishman; Alice Goldstein

Research Area: Education

Keywords: American Jews; Jewish education; Jewish identification

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The report focuses on levels of formal and infomal Jewish education among American Jewish children. It related the amont of formal and informal Jewish education which the Jewish children receive to the denomination of the homes in which they are being raised, the religious composition of the household, the level of ritual practice in the home, and the Jewish education of their parents. (See related 1241)