Ziva R Hassenfeld

Jewish Literacy and Education, a compilation of articles that grew out of the 2008 International Conference on Promoting Jewish Literacy in Educational Settings at the University of Maryland, offers a thoughtful exploration of educating toward literacy in Jewish education. The strength of this collection is that it engages with general education literature and includes empirical studies of Jewish education in important and underresearched areas. The weakness of this collection is twofold: first, its conception of literacy, given the educational context, is limited. Second, the empirical articles do not always have a sound methodology.