The Jewish family : myths and reality / edited by Steven M. Cohen and Paula E. Hyman.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Cohen, Steven Martin.

Hyman, Paula, 1946-2011.

Conference Name:

Conference on the Evolving Jewish Family (1981 : Queens College)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish families.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 242 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Holmes & Meier, 1986.

Contents:

Introduction : Perspectives on the evolving Jewish family / Paula E. Hyman

Jewish families in traditional societies

Approaches to the history of the Jewish family in early modern Poland-Lithuania / Gershon David Hundert

The Jewish family in traditional Morocco / Shlomo Deshen

Jewish families in the transition to modernity

Childhood, marriage, and the family in the Eastern European Jewish enlightenment / David Biale

Priestess and Hausfrau : women and tradition in the German-Jewish family / Marion A. Kaplan

The impact of migration on the Moroccan Jewish family in Israel / Moshe Shokeid

Images of the Jewish family

Jewish family images in the English novel / Anita Norich

Charmed and vicious circles : the study of the Yiddish family saga novel / Susan A. Slotnick

The Jewish mother : social construction of a popular image / Gladys Rothbell

Demographic variations in contemporary Jewish families

Family change and variation among Israeli ethnic groups / Calvin Goldscheider

Contemporary Jewish family patterns in France : a comparative perspective / Sergio DellaPergola

Family patterns among the U.S. Yiddish-mother-tongue subpopulation : 1970 / Frances Kobrin Goldscheider

Change and continuity in contemporary Jewish families

Persistence and change in the Hasidic family / William Shaffir

Coming of age in the Havurah Movement : Bar Mitzvah in the Havurah family / Chava Weissler

Epilogues

Vitality and resilience in the American Jewish family / Steven M. Cohen

Afterword / Paula E. Hyman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Most of the chapters in this book were first presented as papers at the Conference on the Evolving Jewish Family held at Queens College on June 22-24, 1981"--Preliminary p. [ii].

Local Notes:

CJS copy acc# 207191

Other Format:

Online version: Jewish family.

ISBN:

0841908605

9780841908604

OCLC:

11533467