Education and the Emancipation of Jewish Girls in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of the Netherlands

Autor/inn/en	Rietveld-van Wingerden, Marjoke; Bakker, Nelleke
Titel	Education and the Emancipation of Jewish Girls in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of the Netherlands
Quelle	In: History of Education Quarterly, 44 (2004) 2, S.202-221 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2680
DOI	10.1111/j.1748-5959.2004.tb00161.x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Womens Education; Jews; Educational History; Political Attitudes; Religious Education; Secondary Education; Females; Secondary Schools; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Sekundarbereich; Weibliches Geschlecht; Sekundarschule; Niederlande
Abstract	In the Netherlands, the first girl admitted to a qualifying secondary education and the first female university student were sisters, Frederika and Aletta Jacobs, after the father and Aletta had made successful requests. In each case, the admission brought an end to a long-standing male privilege. And in each case contemporaries conceived of these ambitious girls as exceptional and therefore raised hardly any objections. In reality, however, the arrival of the Jacobs sisters initiated what amounted to a revolution in girls' education, as Dutch girls and women began to follow their examples in unexpected numbers. This article considers the history of the education of Jewish girls in the nineteenth century. The authors focus primarily on the Dutch case and on developments prior to or immediately following the Jacobs's requests. The authors first summarize the Dutch debate on girls and secondary schooling around 1870. The authors then briefly sketch the history of Jewish secular and religious education during the nineteenth century. Their third focus is on Jewish girls' education and on the Jewish community's attitude towards women's study. And finally, they evaluate the comparative weights of the Jewish tradition and of enlightened liberalism in encouraging Doctor Jacobs and his daughters to initiate this revolution in girls' education. (Contains 84 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10