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Book Review

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Penny Schine Gold. Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 269. $35.00.
Penny Schine Gold offers an extended examination of the American "Jewish confrontation with modernity" in the twentieth century, and she investigates this confrontation through the material changes in Jewish children's Bibles and how these artifacts formed and fractured the world of Jewish education (p. xi). Hers is a self-reflective book (she herself is Jewish and an educator of the young), partly driven by her own need to understand the Jewish culture of which she is a part. Schine Gold creates a work of scholarship that mixes great bibliographic and theoretical depth with stories and ruminations from her own and others' personal experiences, giving the book a personal, ethnographic quality.	1
More specifically, Schine Gold is interested in how second-generation Jews developed methods to acculturate themselves to twentieth-century American society. First-generation Jewish immigrants improvised a new life for themselves in America, "continuing many of the practices and institutions familiar to them from Jewish life abroad" (p. 2). The second generation was markedly different; they looked for ways to become American and at the same time create mechanisms to retain their Jewish heritage. Primary to such an endeavor was the development of educational models for Jewish youth that helped them to make sense of their Jewish heritage in their American context, and much of Schine Gold's study is based on two types of sources: "curricular material produced for Jewish children and professional literature discussing the education of these children" (pp. 8–9).	. . .

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