Education After October 7 - by Matt Reingold (Hardcover)

About the Book

Education after October 7: Essays about Teaching and Learning in the Jewish Diaspora is an edited collection that explores how the October 7, 2023, terror attacks changed teaching and learning about Israel in the Jewish diaspora.

Book Synopsis

Education after October 7: Essays about Teaching and Learning in the Jewish Diaspora is the first book dedicated to exploring how the October 7, 2023, terror attacks affected teaching and learning about Israel in the Jewish diaspora. The first three sections of the edited volume bring together quantitative, qualitative, and ethnographic research conducted at schools and camps by scholars from a diverse set of disciplines. These studies consider the perspectives and experiences of learners, parents, teachers (North American and Israeli), and camp directors and counsellors to reveal how terror and war necessitated changes in teaching and learning. The concluding section of the volume contains three chapters that offer educational models that chart new directions for the future of Jewish and Israel education.

Review Quotes

"Much has been written about the effects and aftermath of Oct 7th on Jewish life globally. Far less has been written about the experiences of Jewish educators and Jewish education. Anyone seeking to understand how this world-shaping moment in Jewish and world history has meaning and implications for Jewish education should read this book. Matt Reingold has brought together many of the key Jewish educationalists and thinkers from Israel and the diaspora to grapple with research-based, pedagogical responses to personal and collective trauma. This book helps us to understand teacher and student perspectives, as well as the impact on schools, informal programmes, and community-led initiatives. Reingold and his colleagues explore morally complex narratives with honesty and ethical rigour. This book is an invaluable insight into a hugely challenging time."

--Dr. Helena Miller, Director of Post-Graduate Degrees; Senior Research Fellow, London School of Jewish Studies

"This timely volume confronts the challenges and explores the opportunities of teaching about Israel, post-October 7, in a variety of Jewish educational settings. While it is impossible to know whether the book's foundational premises will withstand the test of time, there is little doubt that educators, parents, policy-makers, and researchers will find the essays, by turns, thoughtful, insightful, inspiring, and possibly unsettling. In short, a helpful addition to the Jewish education bookshelf."

--Dr. Jonathan Krasner (he/him), Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Associate Professor of Jewish Education Research

"Education after October 7 captures the complexity of a watershed moment in Jewish life. The contributors face the fear, grief, and complexity of teaching after tragedy, and also set out to foreground the creativity and resilience that emerged in Jewish classrooms and camps around the world. At once a snapshot of a turning point and a guide for the future, this collection is essential reading for educators, scholars, and all who care about how Jewish communities teach, learn, and endure after tragedy."

--Jonah Hassenfeld, Director of Learning and Teaching at Schechter Boston

About the Author

Matt Reingold is Senior Project Lead at Rosov Consulting. An experienced researcher with over sixteen years of experience teaching in Jewish day schools, Matt is also the author of four books about Jewish and Israeli comics and graphic novels. This includes The Comics of Asaf Hanuka (Academic Studies Press, 2024). He is also the co-editor of Teaching Israel􀀁(with Sivan Zakai, Brandeis University Press, 2024).􀀁Matt also regularly posts about Israeli cartoons on Instagram @CartooningIsrael.