Ramaz: School, Community, Scholarship and Orthodoxy by edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock - 1989

Hoboken: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1989. Blue cloth (gilt-stamped spine), 8vo, dust jacket, 203 pages, 12 pages of black-and-white photos, brief notes on contributors; preface by the editor. Essays on orthodox Judaism and education include "The Semi-Centennial Celebrations of Yeshiva and Yeshiva College" by Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff; "Of Manners, Morals, and Orthodox Judaism: Decorum Within the Orthodox Synagogue" by Jenna Weissman Joselit; "The Ramaz Version of American Orthodoxy" by Jeffrey S. Gurock; "The Graduates of Ramaz: Fifty Years of Jewish Day School Education" by Nathalie Friedman; "American Jewish Scholarship on the Pharisees" by Albert I. Baumgarten; The Public Response of American Jews to the Liberation of European Jewry, January-May 1945" by Haskel Lookstein; "The Problem of Pluralism in Contemporary Orthodoxy: Politics, Power, Persuasiveness, and Philosophy" by Michael Berenbaum; "The Impact of the Public Education Law of 1940 on Iraqi Jews" by Reeva S. Simon; and "The Goals of Jewish Education" by Joseph H. Lookstein. 1st edition. Near fine condition, in very good dust jacket.