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Back to School - Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews (Paperback)
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This is a groundbreaking study on the impact of Jewish day schools
in the lives of parents and children.Beyond the walls of their
synagogues, Jewish adults are creating religious meaning in new and
diverse ways in a range of unconventional sites. In "Back to
School", authors Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor argue that the
Jewish day school serves as one such site by bringing adults and
children together for education, meeting, study, and worship-like
ceremonies. Pomson and Schnoor suggest that day school functions as
a locus of Jewish identity akin to the Jewish streets or
neighborhoods that existed in many major North American cities in
the first half of the twentieth century."Back to School" began as
an ethnographic study of the Downtown Jewish Day School (DJDS) in
Toronto, a private, religiously pluralistic day school that
balances its Jewish curriculum with general studies. Drawing on a
longitudinal study at DJDS, and against the backdrop of a
comparative study of two other Toronto day schools as well as four
day schools from the U.S. Midwest, Pomson and Schnoor argue that
when parents choose Jewish schools for their children they look for
institutions that satisfy not only their children's academic and
emotional needs but also their own social and personal concerns as
Jewish adults.The authors found an uncommon degree of involvement
and engagement on the part of the parents, as genuine friendships
and camaraderie blossomed between parents, faculty, and
administrators. In addition, the authors discovered that parents
who considered themselves secular Jews were introduced to or
reacquainted with the depth and meaning of Jewish tradition and
rituals through observing or taking part in school
activities.Sitting on the cusp between the disciplines of education
and the sociology of contemporary Jewish life, "Back to School"
offers important policy implications for how Jewish day schools
might begin to re-imagine their relationships with parents. Jewish
parents, Jewish studies scholars, as well as researchers of
educational and social trends will enjoy this evocative volume.
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