,Jewish Identity and Jewish Schooling

Jewish Identity and Jewish Schooling


 

Publication Date: January 1987

Publisher: Conference of Jewish Communal Service (U.S.)

Author(s): Perry London; Naava Frank

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: American Jews; Jewish Education; Identity Formation

Type: Report

Abstract:

This paper discusses three questions about the psychology of identity and its relation to Jewish education: First, what is identity? Second, what is Jewish identity? What connection do Jewish schooling practices and curricula have with the promotion of Jewish identity?