Sarah Schenirer
Polish writer
Died when: 51 years 229 days (619 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Sarah Schenirer (Polish: Sara Szenirer;Yiddish: ??? ?????;July 15, 1883 - March 1, 1935 (yartzeit 26 Adar I 5695)) was a Polish-Jewish schoolteacher who became a pioneer of Jewish education for girls.
Although Samson Raphael Hirsch's 1853-established Realschule provided girls with "rigorous elementary and secondary school education," and "thousands of girls in Russia attended female-only cheders in the 1890s,"Schenirer's accomplishment was to begin a change in the way women were perceived in Orthodox Judaism.
In 1917, she founded an afternoon school in her apartment that was later used as a model by the Agudath Yisrael in its Bais Yaakov (lit., "House of Jacob") school network in Poland, with worldwide lasting effect.
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