RG 12 - JTSA. Teachers Institute/Seminary College of Jewish Studies Records
Title: | Guide to the JTSA. Teachers Institute/Seminary College of Jewish Studies Records, 1919-[ca.1944]; 1920s-1930s, (bulk). | |
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Name(s): | Jewish Theological Seminary of America Teachers Institute | |
Type of Resource: | text | |
Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Issued: | 1919 | |
Abstract/Description: | Extant records of the Jewish Theological Seminary's Teachers Institute consist of some records of its Israel Friedlaender Classes, 1919-ca.1944 (the bulk of the material dates from the 1920s and 1930s), and a few files of correspondence, 1941-1942 | |
Abstract/Description: | of Teachers Institute registrar Samuel Dinin. | |
Abstract/Description: | Records of the Israel Friedlaender Classes consist mainly of correspondence which appears to have belonged to its registrar, Israel Chipkin. Some minutes; lists; issues of student publications; questionnaires; statistics; school songs and poems; | |
Abstract/Description: | examples of forms and form letters; Hebrew class attendance sheets; lists of library books; clippings of newspaper advertisements for the Classes, posters, brochures, and other publicity materials; programs; scholarship applications and letters of | |
Abstract/Description: | recommendation for scholarship applicants; and brief application forms completed by students are also included. Chipkin's correspondence is with alumni, faculty members, Seminary admin | |
Abstract/Description: | and Dean Mordecai Kaplan; student organization president Rose Rosenberg; Seminary board members Israel Levinthal and Arthur Oppenheimer; and others. Some of the correspondence concerns Chipkin's activities at the Jewish Education Association, | |
Abstract/Description: | where he appears to have been involved in an effort to have Hebrew taught in the public high schools in New York during the 1930s. Typescripts of his articles on this and other topics are included with the correspondence. Correspondence of | |
Abstract/Description: | Teachers Institute registrar Samuel Dinin, two files from 1941-1942, mainly in English but with some in Hebrew, is between Dinin and students, faculty, Dean Mordecai Kaplan, and with representatives of various Jewish educational organizations and | |
Abstract/Description: | schools. Also included are a scattering of documents, including: a newsheet about Teachers Institute alumni, 1942; a list of prize money available, 1942; examination schedules; lists of students; notices to students; bibliographies; and a repo | |
Note(s): |
The Teachers Institute was the teacher training department of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Courses for teachers of Jewish subjects were first offered at the Seminary in 1904, but the Teachers Institute was formally opened in 1909 with funding provided by Jacob Schiff and Louis Marshall. Mordecai Kaplan was principal, 1909-1931, and dean, 1931-1946. Samuel Dinin was the registrar. The Teachers Institute offered both graduate and undergraduate degrees in the field of Jewish education. In 1919 an extension department was opened, which in 1922 was named the Israel Friedlaender Classes after a Seminary professor. The Classes met at the Seminary, and at branches in Yorkville and Harlem in Manhattan; in Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Brownsville, and Flatbush, in Brooklyn; at University Heights in the Bronx; and in Newark, New Jersey. The purpose of the Classes was to train Hebrew school teachers and Jewish club leaders, and to provide classes in Hebrew, Jewish history and literature, and other Jewish subjects for interested adults, both men and women. The Teachers Institute later evolved into the Seminary College of Jewish Studies, today Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies, while the Israel Friedlaender Classes became the Seminary School of Jewish Studies. Hebrew. Inventory available. |
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Subject(s): |
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Finkelstein, Louis, 1895- Friedlaender, Israel, 1876-1920 Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, 1881- Levinthal, Israel Herbert, 1888-1982 Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920 Chipkin, Israel S. (Israel Solomon), 1891- Dinin, Samuel Oppenheimer, Arthur Rosenberg, Rose Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Teachers Institute Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Israel Friedlaender Classes. Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Seminary College of Jewish Studies Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Seminary College of Jewish Studies Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Teachers Institute Jewish Education Association. Hebrew language -- Study and teaching Jewish teachers colleges -- New York (N.Y.) Seminary extension -- New York (N.Y.) Seminary extension -- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Seminary extension -- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Seminary extension -- Newark (N.J.) Conservative Judaism Rabbinical seminaries -- New York (N.Y.) |
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Library Classification: | R.G.12 | |
Held by: | Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 3080 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10027 U.S.A. | |
Restrictions on Access: | Permission required. Some items are restricted. Reproduction of fragile items is not permitted. Consult the Librarian about literary rights. | |
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