The Education of Young Women in Nineteenth Century Russia

Rabbi Mintz on Jewish History - Glimpses into the religious Lives of Early Modern European Jewry

This lecture will explore the establishment of private Jewish schools for girls in Vilna and St. Petersburg in the 1800s. What was the background that led to the creation of these schools? What was the curriculum and the manner of fund raising? Most importantly, what role did these schools play in the modernization of the Russian Jewish communities?