Bryan Schwartz: 3 books

With vibrant photographs and intricate stories Scattered Among the Nations tells the story of the world’s most isolated Jewish communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union and the margins of Europe. Over 2,000 years ago, a shipwreck left seven Jewish couples stranded off...

In the 1960s, the University of Manitoba Law School moved from being an downtown, practitioner-taught law school to the suburban campus of a large university. This great transition was modelled after many in Canada. The debate has arisen as to whether law schools have become excessively immersed in...

Most statements today about higher education begin with the assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant, however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental. Relevance may be a true standard of judgment,...