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<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Although throughout the ages there were Jewish women</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16pt;">who were learned and revered1 the concept of formal</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16pt;">education for women is barely a century old.2 Before this</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16pt;">time, they would learn whatever was necessary from their</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Mishnah. Some even teach Gemara.5 Girls learn Chumash</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16pt;">in depth with Ramban, and study more halachah than boys</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16pt;">in yeshivah.6 The Bais Yaakov movement was spearheaded</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16pt;">by Sarah Schenirer with just twenty-five girls in 1917,7 as a</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 16pt;">reaction to many factors8 which had changed the status quo.9</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Since then, hundreds of girls’ schools have been created.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: georgia, serif, serif, "EmojiFont"; font-size: 16pt;">Note the curriculum of the Bais Yaakov Seminary in Krakow starting on page 77. In particular,</span></strong></div>
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<div>Five Books of Moses: This included the study of the<br>
Five Books of Moses in the original and in its entirety<br>
with the commentary of Rashi and Rabbi Samuel<br>
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<div>German: Instruction in the correct oral and written<br>
use of the language. The goal of this course was to<br>
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themselves the important religious literature of<br>
Hirsch and others which were written in the German<br>
language, as well as selected classical works such<br>
as the poetry of Schiller, Goethe, Nathan the Wise<br>
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