The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia

Tue 3 May, 3 pm. Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, 10011. Box Office, 917-606-8200. Center For Jewish History - [email][events]

Tuesday, May 03, 2011 at 3:00pm In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia Eliyana R. Adler, Sosland Foundation Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In a New York Times interview in 2000, a European-born rabbi pronounced that, "Before 1925 most [Jewish] girls didn't have an education. They only knew how to peel potatoes." However, the reality was quite different. Between 1831 and 1881, over 100 private schools for Jewish girls opened in the Pale of Settlement.