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New Structures of Jewish Education in Germany
Author(s): Glöckner, Olaf
Editor(s): Glöckner, Olaf; Fireberg, Haim
Date: 2015
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Universities / Higher Education, Rabbis, Jewish Education, Education: Adult Education, Limmud
Limmud International - Contributing to the Global Jewish Conversation
Editor(s): Ravid, Shlomi
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Education, Jewish Peoplehood, Limmud, Globalisation
Abstract:

The Limmud mission, which emphasizes learning, diversity and community, has proven to be a compelling set of values. These values are central to international groups. Studies have shown that Limmud participants are highly likely to travel internationally and recognize that they are part of a global community. However, this is not enough. The question that needs to be addressed entails how being a member of an international community can help us strengthen the Jewish people.
Volunteering Survey Limmud Conference December 2015
Date: 2016
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Volunteering, Surveys, Limmud
Abstract: This survey was conducted to help Limmud refine its volunteer recruitment and volunteer management processes and by JVN as input for benchmarking, to promote best practice amongst volunteer-involving organisations, and ultimately to encourage more people to volunteer.

It was conducted at Limmud Conference in December 2015. Limmud participants were interviewed by JVN volunteers at the Conference with extra responses collected from Limmud participants online in January. 139 respondents took part in the survey, with a good representation across age groups, gender, employment status, location and volunteering experience (both general and with Limmud).

The results identify scope for improvement in volunteer recruitment and volunteer support by Limmud. It recommends a set of actions that could be taken by Limmud to help with this.
The Limmud Impact Study: Exploring volunteers’ Jewish journeys
Author(s): Kahn-Harris, Keith
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Surveys, Focus Groups, Limmud, Jewish Organisations, Evaluation, Volunteering, Jewish Education
Abstract: The Limmud Impact Study looks at how successful Limmud has been in taking people ‘one step further on their Jewish journeys’, what these journeys consist of and their wider impact on Jewish communities.

The study focuses on Limmud volunteers and draws on a survey of ten Limmud volunteer communities in eight countries - UK, USA, South Africa, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Israel and Argentina - together with focus groups conducted with Limmud volunteers from around the world.

The findings provide clear evidence that Limmud advances the majority of its volunteers on their Jewish journeys, and for a significant proportion it takes them ‘further’ towards greater interest in and commitment to Jewish life.

Limmud’s principle impact on its volunteers lies in making new friends and contacts, encountering different kinds of Jews and enhancing a sense of connection to the Jewish people. For many Limmud volunteers, their experience has increased their Jewish
knowledge, their leadership skills and their involvement in the wider Jewish community. Involvement in Limmud therefore enhances both the desire to take further steps on their Jewish journeys, and the tools for doing so.

Limmud impacts equally on Jews regardless of denominationand religious practice. The younger the volunteers and the less committed they are when they begin their Limmud journeys, the further Limmud takes them. Those with more senior levels of involvement in Limmud report higher levels of impact on their Jewish journeys than other volunteers, as do those who had received a subsidy or training from Limmud.

Limmud volunteers often have difficult experiences and risk burnout and
exhaustion. While volunteers generally view the gains as worth the cost, Limmud
needs to pay attention to this issue and provide further support.
The Story in My Matzah Ball Soup: Food as Memory, Identity, and Culture in Contemporary Jewish Barcelona
Author(s): Gallin, Catherine Simone
Editor(s): Man Kong Lum, Casey; de Ferrière le Vayer, Marc
Date: 2016
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Food, Jewish Heritage, Jewish Culture, Memory, Jewish Identity, Limmud
Individuals practising community: the central place of interaction in the educational philosophy of Limmud
Author(s): Boyd, Jonathan
Date: 2013
Topics: Limmud, Informal Education, Jewish Education, Social Capital, Philosophy, Main Topic: Education
Abstract: In light of growing evidence of exogamy among Jews and diminishing levels of community engagement, the question of how to sustain and cultivate Jewish identity has become a major preoccupation in the Jewish world since the early 1990s. Among the numerous organisations, programmes and initiatives that have been established and studied in response, Limmud, a week-long annual festival of Jewish life and learning in the UK that attracts an estimated 2,500 people per annum and has been replicated throughout the world, remains decidedly under-researched. This study is designed to understand its educational philosophy. Based upon qualitative interviews with twenty Limmud leaders, and focus group sessions with Limmud participants, it seeks to explore the purposes of the event, its content, its social and educational processes, and contextual environment. It further explores the importance of relationships in Limmud's philosophy, and the place of social capital in its practice.

The study demonstrates that Limmud's educational philosophy is heavily grounded in the interaction of competing tensions, or polarities, on multiple levels. Major categorical distinctions drawn in educational philosophy and practice, and Jewish and general sociology, are both maintained and allowed to interact. This interaction takes place in a "hospitable and charged" environment – one that is simultaneously safe, respectful and comfortable, whilst also edgy, powerful and challenging - that allows the individual freedom to explore and navigate the contours of Jewish community, and the Jewish community opportunity to envelope and nurture the experience of the individual. The study suggests that the interaction of these competing forces, in the context of an intensive Jewish experience, may be an important feature of Jewish educational initiatives attempting to respond to the identity challenges described above. More generally, in detailing a contemporary educational model that sustains religious/ethnic identity whilst emphasising critical thought and openness to competing claims and ideas, it presents an approach that may be applicable in other religious and ethnic communities.
Limmud: A Unique Model of Transformative Jewish Learning
Author(s): Simonson, Raymond
Editor(s): Miller, Helena; Grant, Lisa D.; Pomson, Alex
Date: 2011
Topics: Limmud, Jewish Education, Informal Education, Education: Adult Education, Main Topic: Education
Abstract: Limmud was initially established in 1980 as a small conference for Jewish educators. The organisation is now a world-leader in cross-communal, multi-generational, volunteer-led Jewish learning experiences. This chapter will examine what has become regarded as one of the most vibrant, dynamic and successful examples of alternative educational projects in the Jewish world: Limmud. It will explore the key factors that explain how this unique model has become a powerful vehicle for working towards the above-stated general aims of Jewish education, and why it has been referred to in British Jewry as the jewel in the community’s crown, as well as a focus of emulation throughout the Jewish world.
Exploring Jewish Space: A Critique of Limmud
Author(s): Kahn-Harris, Keith
Editor(s): Rabinowitz, Robert
Date: 1998
Topics: Limmud, Jewish Space, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: Applies theories of space to the phenomenon of the Limmud conference and suggests ways in which Limmud might be 'spatially re-engineered'.
The Limmud Problem: An Orthodox Solution
Author(s): Elton, Ben
Date: 2011
Topics: Orthodox Judaism, Limmud, Pluralism, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: I recently became interested in the grossgemeinde Orthodox rabbis of pre-war Germany, and I hope to publish a full length scholarly article on them soon. During my research it occurred to me that they provide a model for Orthodox Jews today in their relations with non-Orthodox Jewish movements. In Britain this matter has centred on the annual Limmud Conference. I have therefore written the essay below as a contribution to the debate. '
In Search of Underlying Principles: The Case of Limmud
Author(s): Boyd, Jonathan
Date: 2006
Topics: Limmud, Jewish Education, Main Topic: Education, Education: Adult Education
Abstract: The Limmud conference is widely regarded as one of the most interesting, vibrant and successful examples of Jewish education in the contemporary world. This paper attempts to anaylse why this is the case, how the organization functions, and what principles it is driven by, both in order to shed light on what it is doing, and to serve as a guide to others who wish to develop similar initiatives in their own communities.