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Jewish Family

Identity and Self-Formation at Home

By: Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor

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Jewish Family

Identity and Self-Formation at Home

By: Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "Growing into Our Skin as a Jewish Family": Proposing a New Approach to the Study of Jewish Self-Formation -- 2. Dreidels on the Christmas Tree: Jewish Capital in the Family -- 3. "Reversing Some Screwed-UpThing": Changes in Families' Jewish Lives over the Life Course -- 4. "It's about the Kids, Right?": Jewish Families as Social Systems -- 5. "This Is the Way Our Family Is": The Work of Home-Based Family Ritual -- 6. "I'm My Generation": Talking with Jewish Teens at Home -- 7. Home Work: Reflections on Studying Families for Ten Years -- Appendix: The Participating Families -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

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Indiana University Press

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0253033101

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9780253033109

Back to School

Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews

By: Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor

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Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews

By: Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor

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

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0814333834

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9780814333839

Inside Jewish Day Schools

Leadership, Learning, and Community

By: Alex Pomson,Jack Wertheimer

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Inside Jewish Day Schools

Leadership, Learning, and Community

By: Alex Pomson,Jack Wertheimer

This book takes readers inside Jewish day schools to observe what they actually do. Many different types of Jewish day schools exist, and the variations are not well understood. Nor is much information available about how day schools function. This volume is conceived as a guide to those wishing to understand the contemporary Jewish day school"--

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Brandeis University Press

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1684580706

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9781684580705

Inside Jewish Day Schools

Leadership, Learning, and Community

By: Alex Pomson,Jack Wertheimer

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Leadership, Learning, and Community

By: Alex Pomson,Jack Wertheimer

A perfect guide to those wishing to understand the contemporary Jewish day school. This book takes readers inside Jewish day schools to observe what happens day to day, as well as what the schools mean to their studenets, families, and communities. Many different types of Jewish day schools exist, and the variations are not well understood, nor is much information available about how day schools function. Inside Jewish Day Schools proves a vital guide to understanding both these distinctions and the everyday operations of these contemporary schools.

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Mandel-Brandeis Jewish Educati

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1684580692

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9781684580699

Jewish Family

Identity And Self-Formation At Home

By: Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor

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Jewish Family

Identity And Self-Formation At Home

By: Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor

In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor advance a new appreciation for the deep significance of Jewish family in developing Jewish identity. This book is the result of ten years of research focused on a small sample of diverse families. Through their work, the authors paint an intricate picture of the ecosystem that the family unit provides for identity formation over the life course. They draw upon theories of family development as well as sociological theories of the transmission of social and cultural capital in their analysis of the research. They find that family networks, which are often intergenerational, are just as significant as cultural capital, such as knowledge and competence in Judaism, to the formation of Jewish identity. Pomson and Schnoor provide readers with a unique view into the complexity of being Jewish in North America today.

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Indiana University Press

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0253033128

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Back to School

Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews

By: Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor

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Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews

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