The Jewish family and Jewish continuity / edited by Steven Bayme and Gladys Rosen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bayme, Steven.

Rosen, Gladys.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish families--United States.

Jewish families.

Jews--United States--Social conditions.

Jews.

Judaism--United States.

Judaism.

Jews--Social conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : KTAV Pub. House, ©1994.

Summary:

The Jewish family in America is by and large a reflection of the general American family. With the rise of divorce and the increasing preference for alternative life styles, the traditional Jewish family, like its American counterpart, is under increasing challenge. When the effects of intermarriage and a lower-than-average birth rate are added in, the continuity of the Jewish family and Jewish life is under even greater threat. The essays in this volume, by distinguished scholars and social-policy theorists, assess the situation and prescribe policy measures to minimize the adverse affects of these trends when necessary or possible. Among the questions addressed are adoption, divorce, abortion, feminism, and pornography. It is the hope of the editors and contributors alike that their work will not only aid in preserving the American Jewish family, but will have wider resonance as well.

Contents:

The changing American Jewish family faces the 1990s / Sylvia Barack Fishman

Divorced parents and the Jewish community / Nathalie Friedman

Families of American Jewish baby boomers / Chaim I. Waxman

Changing family structures and functions and Jewish continuity / Rela Mintz Geffen

Classical teachings and historical experience / David Biale

Adoption as a Jewish option / Michael Gold

A Jewish approach to the pornography issue / Lawrence Grossman

Jewish views on divorce / Eliot Gertel

Jewish views on abortion / David Feldman

On the merits of the abortion debate / Blu Greenberg

Between tradition and modernity: the contemporary family and Jewish values / Steven Bayme

The impact of the women's movement on the Jewish family / Gladys Rosen

Intermarriage and communal policy: prevention, conversion, and outreach / Steven Bayme

Policy considerations for American Jewish life / Gerald Bubis

Policies and programs to reaffirm the centrality of the Jewish family for the Jewish community / Bernard Reisman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Jewish family and Jewish continuity.

ISBN:

0881255033

9780881255034

0881254959

9780881254952

0881253189

9780881253184

OCLC:

30781398