The International Handbook of Jewish Education, a two volume publication, brings together scholars and practitioners engaged in the field of Jewish Education  and its cognate fields world-wide. Their submissions make a significant  contribution to our knowledge of the field of Jewish Education as we start the second decade of the 21st century. The Handbook is divided broadly into four main sections: - Vision and Practice: focusing on issues of philosophy, identity and planning -the big issues of Jewish Education. Teaching and Learning: focusing on areas of curriculum and engagement Applications, focusing on the ways that Jewish Education is transmitted in particular contexts, both formal and informal, for children and adults. Geographical, focusing on historical, demographic, social and other issues that are specific to a region or where an issue or range of issues can be compared and contrasted between two or more locations. This comprehensive collection of articles providing high quality content, constitutes a difinitive statement  on the state of Jewish Education world wide, as well as through a wide variety of lenses and contexts. It is written in a style that is accessible to a global community of academics and professionals.   

Helena Miller is the Director of Research and Evaluation at the UJIA, London. She has a PhD in Jewish Education from London University, and has taught in schools and higher education for many years. Previously, she was the Director of Education at Leo Baeck College, London. She oversees the inspection of Jewish schools in the UK.  Publications include "Changing the Landscape: Pluralist Jewish Education in the UK", Tel Aviv University 2011, "Supplementary Jewish Education in the UK: Facts and Issues of the Cheder System", International Journal of Jewish Educational Research, February 2010, Accountability through Inspection: Monitoring and Evaluating Jewish Schools London: Board of Deputies of British Jews and Meeting the Challenge: the Jewish Schooling Phenomenon in the UK, The Oxford Review of Education, December 2001, as well as books on teaching visual arts, Craft in Action (Stenor Books 1986) and The Magic Box (Torah Aura 1992). Helena is currently co-chair of Limmud International, on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research, and on the executive of the Network for Research in Jewish Education.Lisa Grant is Associate Professor of Jewish Education at the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. Her research and teaching focus on adult Jewish learning, the professional development of rabbi-educators, and the place of Israel in American Jewish life.  She has published widely in a range of academic journals, books and teaching guides. She is lead author of A Journey of  Heart and Mind: Transformational Learning in Adulthood (JTS Press, 2004) with Diane Schuster, Meredith Woocher and Steven M Cohen, and author of Aytz Hayim Hi, a two year curriculum guide for Adult Bat Mitzvah (Women's League of Conservative Judaism, 2001). Lisa is immediate past chair of the Network for Research in Jewish Education and serves on the executive committee of the Israel Association for Research in Jewish Education. She is currently working on a book on the teaching of Israel in North America.Alex Pomson is a senior researcher at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He trained in History at the university of Cambridge and received his PhD in Religious education from the University of London in 1994. He was founding head of Jewish Studies at King Solomon High School, London. From 1996-2004. He served as Associate professor of Jewish Teacher Education at York University, Toronto, where he co-ordinated York's Jewish Teacher education Programme. He is past Chair of the Network for Research in Jewish Education. He completed a longitudinal study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of the Canadian Government, published in 2008, as a co-authored book, Back to School: Jewish day school in the lives of adult Jews. His most recent book, published by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation, is a co-edited volume, Jewish schools, Jewish communities: a reconsideration.

Preface.- About the editors.- About the contributors.- Introduction: Helena Miller, Lisa Grant and Alex Pomson.- VOLUME ONE: Section One: Vision and Practice.- Introduction.- Analytic Philosophy of Education and Jewish Education - the road not taken; Barry Chazan.- Community Engagement - the challenge of connecting Jewish schools to the wider community; Helena Miller.- Culture - restoring culture to Jewish cultural education; Zvi Bekerman and Sue Rosenfeld.- Curriculum Development - what we can learn from International curricula; Roberta Louis Goodman and Jan Katzew.- Curriculum Integration; Mitch Malkus.- Gender and Jewish Education - why doesn¿t this feel good?; Tova Hartman and Tamar Miller.- Historiography of American Jewish Education - a case for guarded optimism; Jonathan Krasner.- Janush Korczak¿s Life and Legacy for Jewish Education; Marc Silverman.- Jewish Identities - education for multiple and moving targets; Stuart Charme and Tali Hyman Zelcowicz.- Jewish Identity and Jewish Education: the Jewish identity space and its contribution to research and practice; Gaby Horenczyk and Hagit Hacohen Woolf.- Jewish Identity- who you knew affects how you Jew - The impact of childhood Jewish networks upon adult Jewish identity; Steven M. Cohen and Judith Veinstein.- Jewish Thought for Jewish Education - sources and resources; Jonathan A. Cohen.- Philosophy of Jewish Education - thoughts; Michael Rosenak.- Planning for Jewish Education in the 21st Century - towards a new praxis; Jonathan S. Woocher.- Pluralism in Jewish Education; Brian Conyer.- Post modernism - after enlightenment - Jewish education and the paradoxes of post modernism; Hanan Alexander.- Spirituality - the spiritual child and Jewish childhood; Michael Shire.- Visions in Jewish Education; Daniel Pekarsky.- Section Two: Teaching and Learning.- Introduction.- Art - educating with art without ruining it; Robbie Gringras.- Arts and Jewish Day School Education in North America; Ofra Backenroth.- Bible - teaching the bible in our times; Barry W. Holtz.- Environment: Jewish Education as if the Planet Mattered; Eilon Shwartz.- Havruta Study - what do we know and what do we hope to learn? Elie Holzer, Orit Kent.- Hebrew Language in Israel and the Diaspora; Nava Navo.- History - issues in teaching and learning Jewish history; Benjamin M. Jacobs and Yona Shem Tov.- Holocaust Education; Simone Schweber.- Israel Education - purposes and practices; Alick Isaacs.- Israel Travel Education; Scott Copeland.- Jewish Peoplehood Education; David Mittelberg.- Life Cycle Education: Tradition, Ritual and Transition; Howard Deitcher.- Other Religions in Jewish Education; Michael Gillis.- Talmud: Making a Case for Talmud Pedagogy - the Talmud as an educational model; Marjorie Lehmann and Jane Kanarek.- Technology: The Digital Revolution That is Shaping the 21st Century - a fleeting snapshot from the first decade; Brian Amkraut.- Travel as a Jewish Educational Tool; Erik H. Cohen.- Travel: Location, Location, Location - a practitioner¿s perspective on Jewish travel; Jeremy Leigh.- VOLUME TWO: Section Three: Applications.- Introduction.- Academic Jewish Studies in North America; Judith R. Baskin.- Adult Jewish Education - the landscape; Lisa D. Grant and Diane Tickton Schuster.- Congregational Schools; Isa Aron.- Day schools in the Liberal sector - challenges and opportunities at the intersection of two traditions of Jewish schooling; Alex Pomson.- Day schools in the Orthodox Sector; Shani Bechhofer.- Early Childhood Education; Michael Ben Avie, Ilene Vogelstein, Roberta Louis Goodman, Eli Schaap and Pat Bidol-Padva.- Experiential Jewish Education - reaching the tipping point; David Bryfman.- Gender - shifting from evading to engaging; gender issues and Jewish education; Shira D.  Epstein.- Informal Education - the decisive decade - how informal Jewish education was transformed in its relationship with Jewish philanthropy; Joseph Reimer.- Intermarriage - connection, commitment ...