[Avodah] Teaching Torah to Women

[Professor L. Levine]

Although throughout the ages there were Jewish women
who were learned and revered1 the concept of formal
education for women is barely a century old.2 Before this
time, they would learn whatever was necessary from their
parents.3 Girls generally did not go out of the home, and were
often illiterate.4 The modern school system teaches many
subjects to the girls, including Chumash, Halachah, Navi and
Mishnah. Some even teach Gemara.5 Girls learn Chumash
in depth with Ramban, and study more halachah than boys
in yeshivah.6 The Bais Yaakov movement was spearheaded
by Sarah Schenirer with just twenty-five girls in 1917,7 as a
reaction to many factors8 which had changed the status quo.9
Since then, hundreds of girls’ schools have been created.

For more on this topic

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For information about the history of the Bais Yaakov movement see

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Note the curriculum of the Bais Yaakov Seminary in Krakow starting on page 77.  In particular,

Five Books of Moses: This included the study of the
Five Books of Moses in the original and in its entirety
with the commentary of Rashi and Rabbi Samuel
Raphael Hirsch.

and

German: Instruction in the correct oral and written
use of the language. The goal of this course was to
provide the teachers with the ability to read by
themselves the important religious literature of
Hirsch and others which were written in the German
language, as well as selected classical works such
as the poetry of Schiller, Goethe, Nathan the Wise
by Lessing, Zweig, and Beer-Hoffman.

Times have indeed changed,  have they not!

YL

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