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Back to School: Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews Paperback – March 10, 2008

by Alex Pomson (Author), Randal Schnoor (Author), Randal F. Schnoor (Author),
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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 Paul Penna 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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    200 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Wayne State University Press
  4. Publication date
    March 10, 2008
  5. Dimensions
    6.18 x 0.56 x 8.87 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0814333834
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0814333839
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"Back to School: Jewish Day Schools in the Lives of Adult Jews is highly recommended for anyone who wants to improve the education of the leaders of tomorrow's world, especially for those of Jewish faith."―Midwest Book Review

"This important work summarizes, in an engaging, highly readable manner, research that demonstrates convincingly that the Jewish day school plays a vital role, not only in the educational, social, and religious lives of its students, but, surprisingly, in the lives of many adults who send their children to day schools. Well researched and appropriately documented, Back to School is indeed groundbreaking study that deserves the attention of board leaders, school administrators, teachers, parents, professors and Jewish education, and all others concerned about the state and growth of Jewish day schools."―Shofar

"The strength of this book, and this research project, is that it has opened up a conversation about the richness of Jewish life that is taking place in Jewish day schools, not only within classrooms and offices but 'around the school.' This is a critical conversation for researchers attempting to understand better changing educational and religious configurations as well as practitioners reaching out to and working with families."―American Jewish History

"In their ethnographic study, Back to School, Alex Pomson and Randal Schnoor have made an important contribution to our understanding of the powerful role Jewish day schools play as a source of meaning in the lives of adult Jews. Back to School should remain a significant foundational research contribution for many years to come."―Journal of Jewish Education

"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

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A groundbreaking study on the impact of Jewish day schools in the lives of parents and children.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wayne State University Press (March 10, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0814333834
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0814333839
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.18 x 0.56 x 8.87 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Paul Burstein
4.0 out of 5 stars Very fine book on what parents get from Jewish day schools
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2009
This book considers the impact of Jewish day schools, not on the students, but on their parents. Primarily an ethnographic study, it shows how parents decide to send their children to a day school (often with considerable ambivalence), what they get out of the day school community of parents as well as teachers and students (often, a lot), and how they respond to the Jewish learning and enthusiasm the children bring home (often with surprising enthusiasm). Pomson and Schnoor do a very fine job of showing how parents' own negative or non-existent experiences of Jewish education, and ambivalence about Jewish life, affect the way they approach day school education.
Pomson and Schnoor are good ethnographers; they are also careful to put their work into a broader context of research on education and on Jewish life.
What comes across very strongly is how a good day school creates enthusiasm about Judaism and Jewish life for parents as well as children, in ways that are frequently unanticipated by the parents themselves, and how even non-Jewish parents in mixed marriages can get caught up in Jewish learning and observance. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn about this aspect of Jewish life in North America. Could be good for classroom use as well, in college courses and elsewhere.
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