Tarbut

Tarbut

The Tarbut movement was a network of secular, Hebrew-language schools in parts of the former Jewish Pale of Settlement, specifically in Poland, Romania and Lithuania. Its existence was primarily between World War I and Two, although some schools affiliated with the movement continue to operate today.

History

Education Activities

"Tarbut" was a Zionist network of Hebrew-language educational institutions founded in 1922, when the first Tarbut conference was held in Warsaw. It operated kindergartens, elementary schools, secondary schools, teachers' seminaries, adult education courses, lending libraries and a publishing house that produced pedagogical materials, textbooks and children's periodicals.

Tarbut schools had 25,829 students in 1921; 37,000 in 1934–1935; and 45,000 students enrolled in some 270 institutions by 1939. These included about 25% of all students enrolled in Jewish schools in Poland, and 9% of Poland's entire Jewish student population in Poland. The curriculum was secular, including science, humanities, and Hebrew studies, including Jewish history.

By the time the war brought the European Tarbut schools to an end, they had long been suffering from chronic underfunding. European Jews who appealed to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for aid included poet Chaim Nachman Bialik and Zionist leaders Nahum Sokolow and Vladimir Jabotinsky.

Publishing Activities

Tarbut responded to the shift in Hebrew literature publishing to Palestine taking place around the time of its founding by fostering increased local Hebrew-language children's publishing. These efforts included "Shibolim" ("Ears of Corn"), a Warsaw biweekly published during 1922-1923 which featured both vowelled and unvowelled text, making it suitable for children of all ages, and consisted largely of literature, entertainment, sports and crafts; and, from 1935-1939, the biweekly "Olami", a current-events-heavy series which consisted of "Olami" ("My World"), for Grades 5-7; "Olami Hakatan" ("My Small World"), for Grades 3-4; and "Olami Haktantan" ("My Tiny World"), for Grades 1-2. "Olami"'s material included current events in Palestine alongside information about Jewish life in Poland.

Today

The Tarbut network no longer exists today, and so no school can today affiliate with it. Despite this, Jewish schools which share the values of the original Tarbut network have adopted the word as a part of their names:

* Argentina: Colegio Tarbut in Olivos, Buenos Aires
* Mexico: [http://www.tarbut.edu.mx/ Colegio Hebreo Tarbut] in Mexico City
* U.S.: [http://www.tarbut.com/ Tarbut V'Torah Community Day School] in Irvine, California

Sources

Zackary Sholem Berger, "Bialik's Poetic Plea to the Joint: Save Our Schools", "The Forward" (14 November 2003). [http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.11.14/giving3.html]

Adina Bar-El, "The 'Tarbut' Network in Poland and its Children's Periodicals". [http://www.tau.ac.il/education/arch/abstract21.html]

YIVO Institute, "Zionism and Zionist Parties". [http://www.yivoinstitute.org/pdf/zionism.pdf (PDF)]


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