Pomson, Alex.

Back to school Jewish day school in the lives of adult Jews / [electronic resource] : Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor ; with a foreword by Jack Wertheimer. - Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2008. - xii, 184 p.

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

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2011.
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Jewish day schools--United States.
Jewish day schools--Canada.
Jews--Identity.--United States
Jews--Identity.--Canada


Electronic books.

LC741 / .P66 2008eb

371.076

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