Still Jewish : A History of Women and Intermarriage in America / Keren R. McGinity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGinity, Keren R., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Jews.

Jews--United States--Identity.

Jewish women.

Intermarriage--United States.

Intermarriage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection of intermarriage and gender across the twentieth century, Keren R. McGinity describes the lives of Jewish women who intermarried while placing their decisions in historical context. The first comprehensive history of these intermarried women, Still Jewish is a multigenerational study combining in-depth personal interviews and an astute analysis of how interfaith relationships and intermarriage were portrayed in the mass media, advice manuals, and religious community-generated literature. Still Jewish dismantles assumptions that once a Jew intermarries, she becomes fully assimilated into the majority Christian population, religion, and culture. Rather than becoming “lost” to the Jewish community, women who intermarried later in the century were more likely to raise their children with strong ties to Judaism than women who intermarried earlier in the century. Bringing perennially controversial questions of Jewish identity, continuity, and survival to the forefront of the discussion, Still Jewish addresses topics of great resonance in the modern Jewish community and beyond.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Immigrant Jewesses Who Married “Out”

2 Intermarriage in an Age of Domesticity

3 Intermarriage Was A-Changin’

4 Revitalization from Within

Conclusion

Afterword

Appendix

Notes

Selected Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-292) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-5961-0

OCLC:

779828203