Secular Jewish Pioneers

Secular Jewish Pioneers

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Jewish Salonieres: Handmaidens of Modernity

The women who shaped the Jewish encounter with modernity.

By Emily Bilski and Emily Braun

Who is included (and excluded) from the canon of secular Jewish writers, poets, and scientists?

By Rabbi Adam Chalom

Passionate Pioneers

The story of secular Yiddish education in
North America, 1910-1960.
By Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich

Labor and the Nation

Selections from two iconic essays by the "grandfather" of Cultural Zionism.
By Aaron David Gordon

Jewish Women of the Frontier

Why it's time to forget the stereotypes about grizzled Clint Eastwood-types.

By Elizabeth Jameson and Andrea Kalinowski

"Secular Prophets" of the
Russian Jewish Intelligentsia

Ahad Ha-Am, Haim Zhitlowski, and Simon Dubnow strove for a modern approach to Jewish tradition.

By David H. Weinberg

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