Christian Framework, Jewish Content? Jewish School Sermons in Galicia Cover Image

Chrześcijańskie ramy, żydowskie treści? Żydowskie kazania szkolne w Galicji
Christian Framework, Jewish Content? Jewish School Sermons in Galicia

Author(s): Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska
Subject(s): History, Education, Cultural history, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, History of Judaism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Jewish homiletics; Christian homiletics; Galicia; public schools; youth;the nineteenth century; religious education; sermons

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to so-called “exhortations,” school sermons delivered to Jewish school youth in Galicia since the 1880s by Jewish teachers of religion. The author traces the roots of these sermons by analyzing the legal framework and the realms of Galician school that since the late 1860s became non-confessional. Sermons were part of religious education which in theory should have been provided to all children. The article shows that the Jewish exhortations, while retaining Jewish content, resembled Christian sermons in various ways (sources, length, language, typical features such as brevity, chronology of publication, even frequency of the words). Those affinities and relationship between both traditions are analyzed in the article.

  • Issue Year: 26/2023
  • Issue No: 51
  • Page Range: 41-68
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Polish