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Back to School
Pomson, Alex; Schnoor, Randal F.
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Description for Back to School
Paperback. Beyond the walls of their synagogues, Jewish adults are creating religious meaning in new and diverse ways in a range of unconventional sites. This work 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. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR1; JNL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 327.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wayne State University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Detroit, MI, United States
ISBN
9780814333839
SKU
V9780814333839
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About Pomson, Alex; Schnoor, Randal F.
Alex Pomson is a senior lecturer at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Randal F. Schnoor teaches at the Centre for Jewish Studies at York University.
Reviews for Back to School
"Back to School is both interesting to and challenging of many dominant assumptions about the relations between schools and parents. A genuine contribution to the field." - Joseph Reimer, associate professor in the Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership at Brandeis University"