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Author Pomson, Alex.

Title 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.

Imprint Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2008.

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Description xii, 184 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-178) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Jewish day schools -- United States.
Jewish day schools -- Canada.
Jews -- United States -- Identity.
Jews -- Canada -- Identity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Schnoor, Randal F.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780814333839 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814333834 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814335475 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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