Elsie Chomsky: A Life in Jewish Education


 

Publication Date: February 1999

Publisher: Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

Author(s): Harriet Feinberg

Research Area: Education

Keywords: Leadership; Generational issues; Jewish Education; Educators

Type: Other

Coverage: Pennsylvania

Abstract:

The author explores the life of Elsie Chomsky, a major figure for decades in Jewish education in Philadelphia and mother of Noam Chomsky, an internationally known scholar and public intellectual. She recounts Chomsky's childhood, educational history, teaching accomplishments, and family life. She contrasts Chomsky's ardent Hebrew nationalism and Zionism with her son's anti-Israel stance.