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Back to School: Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews.

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Back to School: Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Back to School: Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews. By Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. xii + 184 pp.

What impact does organizational affiliation have on individuals? This question is at the heart of Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor's recently published ethnography of parents' connections to a non-Orthodox Jewish day school in Toronto. After a preliminary study suggested that parents' connections to the school were significant, the authors spent three years conducting ethnographic observation and interviews at the Downtown Jewish Day School (DJDS) in Toronto.

The DJDS is a revealing case study since it diverges from research about which families choose Jewish day schools. (1) DJDS families do not live in a particularly Jewish neighborhood...

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