Studies in Contemporary Jewry Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century

by Medding, Peter Y.

• ISBN13: 9780195128208
• ISBN10: 0195128206
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century? How has it remained the same? How do Jewish families see themselves--historically, socially, politically, and economically--and how would they like to be seen by others? This book, the fourteenth volume of Oxford's internationally acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, presents a variety of perspectives on Jewish families coping with life and death in the twentieth century. The book is comprised of symposium papers, essays, and review articles of works published on such fundamental subjects as the Holocaust, antisemitism, genocide, history, literature, the arts, religion, education, Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East. Published annually by the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features current scholarship in the form of symposia, articles, and book reviews by distinguished experts of Jewish studies from colleges and universities across the globe. Each volume also includes a list of recent dissertations. Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century will appeal to all students and scholars of the sociocultural history of the Jewish people, especially those interested in the nature of Jewish intermarriage and/or family life, the changing fate of the Orthodox Jewish family, the varied but widespread Americanization of the Jewish family, and similar concerns.

Author Biography

ABOUT THE EDITORS
The Studies in Contemporary Jewry series is alternately edited by Jonathan Frankel, Eli Lederhandler, Peter Y. Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, all professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Volume XIV is edited by Peter Y. Medding.

Table of Contents

Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Preface	p. vii
Symposium Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century	p. 2
The Place of Ethnic Identity in the Development of Personal Identity: a Challenge for the Jewish Family	p. 3
Notes	p. 25
Marriage, Americanization and American Jewish Culture, 1900-1920	p. 27
Notes	p. 43
Making Fragmentation Familiar: Barry Levinson's Avalon	p. 49
Notes	p. 63
The Economics of Contemporary American Jewish Family Life	p. 65
Notes	p. 78
Children of Intermarriage: How "jewish"?	p. 81
Notes	p. 125
What Happened to the Extended Jewish Family? Jewish Homes for the Aged in Eastern Europe	p. 128
Notes	p. 139
Cohesion and Rupture: the Jewish Family in East European Ghettos During the Holocaust	p. 143
Notes	p. 162
The "family-Community" Model in Haredi Society	p. 166
Notes	p. 175
We Are All One Bereaved Family: Personal Loss and Collective Mourning in Israeli Society	p. 178
Notes	p. 190
Essays	p. 194
Evangelists in a Strange Land: American Missionaries in Israel, 1948-1967	p. 195
Notes	p. 209
Balfour's Mission to Palestine: Science, Strategy and Vision in the Inauguration of the Hebrew University	p. 214
Notes	p. 228
Review Essays	p. 234
Vichy and the Jews: a Past That is Not Past	p. 235
Notes	p. 248
Mastering the Middle East: Israel in a Regional Context	p. 250
Examining the Oslo Process: a First Cut	p. 256
Book Reviews	p. 264
Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide	p. 265
History and the Social Sciences	p. 281
Notes	p. 303
Language, Literature and the Arts	p. 307
Notes	p. 309
Religion, Thought and Education	p. 325
Notes	p. 338
Zionism, Israel and the Middle East	p. 339
Notes	p. 349
Recently Completed Doctoral Dissertations	p. 351
Studies in Comtemporary Jewry XV	p. 360
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