Laura Yares: Jewish Sunday Schools

Join us to hear from Laura Yares (Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University) about her new book Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America (NYU Press). 

Beginning with the first Jewish Sunday School in the US in 1838, the book examines how Judaism sought to sustain itself in a Protestant context by adapting Protestant models of education. Jewish Sunday Schools provides an in-depth portrait of a massively understudied movement that acted as a vital means by which American Jews explored and reconciled their religious and national identities.