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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781643203321

Autore

Pomson Alex

Titolo

Back to school [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish day school in the lives of adult Jews / / Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor ; with a foreword by Jack Wertheimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8143-3547-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchnoorRandal F

Disciplina

371.076

Soggetti

Jewish day schools - United States

Jewish day schools - Canada

Jews - United States - Identity

Jews - Canada - Identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-178) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : why study day-school parents? -- A school downtown : the ethnographic context for the study -- The winding road to school : why and how parents choose DJDS -- What are parents doing at school? framing the interactions between parents and their children's schools -- The school as Shul : Jewish day schools as places of worship, study, and assembly, for parents -- The school at home : private encounters between parents and their children's school -- Beyond downtown to the suburbs : testing the limits of the DJDS case -- Conclusion : learning from what's downtown -- References -- Index.