My oldest granddaughter attended a Bais Yaakov High School in Boro Park. After a few months she came home complaining, "All they tell us is how long our skirts and dresses are supposed to be. Mine are long enough, don't they have anything else to say?"
I fear that many of the teachers do not have much else to say. My oldest son, her father, began reading the essays from the Collected Writings of RSRH with her. After a couple of months I asked her, "Leeba, what do you think of Rabbiner Hirsch?" She responded, "Rav Hirsch is great!"
The question is, "Why aren't Bais Yaakov high school teachers and other who teach Limudei Kodesh on the high school level acquainted with the writings of RSRH so they can teach his approach to Yahadus?" Keep in mind that in Sarah Schneirer's Krakow Seminary the girls were required to learn German so they could read the writings of RSRH. And for the record, they also read Schiller and Lessing!!!
If anyone is interested in the curriculum at the Krakow Seminary, I can send them a link to a thesis by Rabbi Abraham Atkin titled, "The Bais Yaakov Movement, 1917 to 1939".
Professor Yitzchok Levine
