About 350,000 Jewish children are currently enrolled in Jewish day
schools, in every continent other than Antarctica. This is the
first book-length consideration of life in such schools and of
their relationship both to the Jewish community and to society as a
whole. It provides a rich sense of how community is constructed
within Jewish schools, and of how they contribute to or complicate
the construction of community in the wider society. The volume
reframes day-school research in three ways. First, it focuses not
just on the learner in the day-school classroom but sees schools as
agents of and for the community. Second, it brings a truly
international perspective to the study of day schools, viewing them
in relation to the socio-cultural contexts from which they emerge
and where they have impact. Third, it considers day-school
education in relation to insights derived from the study and
practice of non-parochial education. This cross-cultural and
genuinely comparative approach to the study of Jewish schooling
draws on research from the United States, the former Soviet Union,
South America, and Europe, making it possible to arrive at
important and original insights into parochial Jewish schooling.
With contributions from outstanding scholars as well as
practitioners of public education and of Jewish parochial
schooling, the volume reveals conflicting conceptions of the social
functions of schooling and also produces original insights into the
capacity of schools to build community. The book is timely in that
it studies questions about faith-based schooling and the public
good that today are as much questions of public policy as they are
of academic inquiry. It will appeal first and foremost to those
with a particular interest in Jewish schooling but will also
attract the attention of academics and professionals concerned with
the place of parochial education in contemporary society.
Contributors: Ami Bouganim, Erik H. Cohen, Ira Dashefsky, Howard
Deitcher, Jay Dewey, Joshua Elkin, Yoel Finkelman, Zvi Gitelman,
Scott J. Goldberg, Ellen B. Goldring, Yossi J. Goldstein, Eli Kohn,
Jeffrey S.Kress, Binyamin Krohn, Jon A. Levisohn, Ilana Maryles
Sztokman, Deborah Meier, Helena Miller, Christine Muller, Michal
Muszkat Barkan, Alex Pomson, Joseph Reimer, Randal Schnoor, Susan
L. Shevitz, Asher Shkedi, Claire Smrekar, Uriel Ta'ir, Michael
Turetsky, Rahel Wasserfall.
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