Foundations. Jewish Education 1 up to the First World War

Education, among the Jewish people, has a long tradition. The Talmud speaks already of the school as an institution.

Formerly he who had a father was taught by him the Torah, ² but he who had no father did not learn it … until Joshua ben Gamala came and ordained that teachers should be set up in every province and every city, and that pupils should be admitted at the age of six or seven. ³