Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli: A Curricular Intellectual Who was Ahead of His Time

Abstract

ABSTRACT Chapters on Jewish Thought (Prakim BeMachshevet Yisrael) by Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli is essentially a curriculum for teaching Jewish thought as a school subject in Jewish religious high schools in the 1940s. Therefore, we choose to analyze the book using curricular research tools. We searched for similarities between the curricular approach presented by Rabbi Yisraeli and approaches for organizing knowledge and material that were first introduced in the 1950s by Tyler, Bloom, Lamm, and others, in order to demonstrate that Rabbi Yisraeli was a curricular intellectual who was ahead of his time.