Abstract:
This is the first book-length consideration of Jewish day-schools around the world and of their relationship both to the Jewish community and to society as a whole. Its cross-cultural and genuinely comparative approach reframes day-school research in a number of important ways. In consequence it reveals conflicting conceptions of the social functions of schooling, a new understanding of the capacity of schools to build community, and original insights into faith-based schooling and the public good.
