Research Catalog

Title

The best school in Jerusalem : Annie Landau's school for girls, 1900/1960 / Laura S. Schor.

Author

Schor, Laura S.

Publication

Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, [2013]

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Details

Description

299 p. cm.

Summary

"Annie Edith (Hannah Judith) Landau (1873-1945), born in London to immigrant parents and educated as a teacher, moved to Jerusalem in 1899 to teach English at the Anglo-Jewish Association's Evelina de Rothschild School for Girls. A year later she became its principal, a post she held for forty-five years. As a member of Jerusalem's educated elite, Landau had considerable influence on the city's cultural and social life, often hosting parties that included British Mandatory officials, Jewish dignitaries, Arab leaders, and important visitors. Her school, which provided girls of different backgrounds with both a Jewish and a secular education, was immensely popular and often had to reject candidates, for lack of space. A biography of both an extraordinary woman and a thriving institution, this book offers a lens through which to view the struggles of the nascent Zionist movement, World War I, poverty and unemployment in the Yishuv, and the relations between the religious and secular sectors and between Arabs and Jews, as well as Landau's own dual loyalties to the British and to the evolving Jewish community." -- from the cover.

Series Statement

HBI series on Jewish women

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• ebrary.

Subject

• Landau, Annie
• Evelina de Rothschild Girls' School (Jerusalem) > History
• Jewish women > Jerusalem
• Private schools > Jerusalem > History
• Girls' schools > Jerusalem > History
• Girls > History. > Jerusalem
• Education > Jerusalem > History > 20th century
• School principals > Jerusalem

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Annie Landau's road to Jerusalem -- An English girls' school in Ottoman Jerusalem -- Rebuilding in British Jerusalem -- Return to Frutiger House -- School magazine: the girls speak out -- Transitions: 1940/1960 -- Epilogue: Lessons learned.

ISBN

• 9781611684841 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781611684858 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781611684865 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013026495

OCLC

840477942

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library