@phdthesis{1969,
  keywords = {Toronto, Jews, Board of Jewish Education of Toronto, Religious Education},
  author = {Harvey Raben},
  title = {History of the Board of Jewish Education of Toronto, 1949-1975: A Study of Autonomy and Control},
  abstract = {This study explores the narrative and administrative history of the Board of Jewish Education of Toronto beginning with the genesis of the idea that a central agency overseeing Jewish education in the city was necessary. It then traces the history of the Board through its formal organization, formative years and into the mid-1970's when the Board's current structure and mandate may be said to have finally coalesced. As this study makes clear, the Board of Jewish Education of Toronto (BJE) was not a copy of any particular model of central agency which then existed elsewhere. Rather, it was a product of compromise demanded by circumstance peculiar to Toronto. Because of the existing pluralist nature of Jewish schools in Toronto, the BJE was forced to placate the concerns of those who feared that a central agency would erode the autonomy of already established schools while, at the same time, it promised change to those in the community who demanded more centralized control, especially fiscal control, over fractious and costly Jewish schools. As this study makes clear, for some years this often conflicting and always difficult mandate created a situation in which the BJE's main order of business was as likely to be the BJE's own survival or, at least, the justification of its existence as it was pedagogy. By the mid-1970's, however, the BJE not only found a place for itself but, as this study explains, it also emerged as a key voice determining the future direction of Jewish education in Toronto.},
  year = {1992},
  edition = {Ed.D.},
  number = {Dissertation/Thesis, Unpublished},
  pages = {1-227, },
  publisher = {University of Toronto},
  isbn = {04194209},
  language = {English},
}