Fifteen years into a successful career as a college professor, Ilana M. Blumberg faced a teaching crisis that shook her core beliefs and sent her on a life-changing journey. Open Your Hand shares her remarkable personal story, drawing upon Blumber’s Jewish faith and her American ideals to forge a teaching practice with the potential to transform society
Fifteen years into a successful career as a college professor, Ilana M. Blumberg faced a teaching crisis that shook her core beliefs and sent her on a life-changing journey. Open Your Hand shares her remarkable personal story, drawing upon Blumber’s Jewish faith and her American ideals to forge a teaching practice with the potential to transform society
ILANA M. BLUMBERG is a senior lecturer in English literature and director of the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is the author of Victorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels and the Sami Rohr Choice Award-winning memoir Houses of Study: a Jewish Woman among Books.
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Contents Introduction
Part One: Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: Kindergarten to College, Beit Rabban and Michigan State University
Part Two: Choosing to Learn, Learning to Choose: “Smith” Middle School
Part Three: “It’s the land”: Smith School and Jerusalem
Postscript: Shadow Schools: Kindergarten to College, America and Israel