Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century

by Jack Wertheimer

Book Overview

At a time of heightened interest in Jewish supplementary schooling, this volume offers a path-breaking examination of how ten diverse schools have remade themselves to face the new challenges of the twenty-first century. Each written by an academic observer with the help of an experienced educator, the chapters bring these schools vividly to life by giving voice to students, parents, teachers, school directors, lay leaders, local rabbis and other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584657707
• ISBN13: 9781584657705
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"