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An American Orthodox Dreamer: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston’s Maimonides School (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)

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Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, born in 1903 and scion of a preeminent
Lithuanian Orthodox circle of relatives, used to be probably the most towering intellectual figures of American Orthodoxy in the twentieth century. After receiving rabbinic ordination and completing his studies toward a Ph.D., he immigrated to The us where he served as the Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. As the leader of centrist Orthodoxy in The us for more than fifty years, his many accomplishments included his founding of the Maimonides School in Boston in 1937. Rabbi Soloveitchik served as the intellectual and spiritual force in the back of the Maimonides School from its founding and used to be responsible for its innovative curriculum.

Synthesizing American educational methodologies and European Orthodox approaches to education, the Maimonides School became a prototype for an American Orthodox educational institution. Unique among up to date Orthodox day schools, the coeducational nature of the classes at Maimonides, and to a point the curriculum, used to be groundbreaking. Characterized by academic excellence in both Judaic studies and other subjects, the school offered boys and girls exactly the same education. Rabbi Soloveitchik’s school used to be particularly innovative by offering Talmud classes to girls on the same level as boys.

The Maimonides School became a paradigm for the fledgling Orthodox Jewish day school movement nationwide. The character of the education there influenced later developments in the Orthodox community, such as the emphasis on higher level Torah study for women.

By articulating a philosophy that advocated both traditional Orthodoxy in addition to modernism and Americanism, the school gradually affected Boston’s Orthodox community, which came to be guided by its principles. As Seth Farber points out, the school, once rejected by the Jewish establishment in Boston, used to be eventually embraced by it. A community that saw no contradiction between democratic values and traditional Orthodox way of life emerged in Boston. This modern Orthodox community in the long run represented a significant voice in Boston’s Jewish and The us’s Orthodox cultures.

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