Book Catalogue

Jewish Education for What? And Other Essays

Author Walter Ackerman
Editor Prof. Ari Ackerman, Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin, Brenda Bacon ,Hanan Alexander
Language English
Publication year 2008
Publisher Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University- Kelman Center for Jewish Education, University of Haifa-Center for Jewish Education

Prof. Walter I. Ackerman (1925-2003) was one of the leading Jewish educators of the second half of the twentieth century, both as a practitioner and as a theorist. He served as Director of Camp Yavneh, Director of Camps Ramah in California and Canada; Director of The United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education; Dean of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and later Vice President for Academic Affairs; Chair of the Education Department, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Shane Family Professor of Education at Ben-Gurion University; Member of the Israeli Council for Higher Education; Dean of Education at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies; and Chair of the TALI Education Fund.

Prof. Ackerman authored over 100 books, articles, reports and book reviews. This anthology of his articles is divided into four parts: Sociology of American Jewish Education, History of American Jewish Education, the Curricula of American Jewish Education, and Israeli Education.

Editors: Ari Ackerman, Brenda Bacon, David Golinkin, Hanan Alexander

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