Research Catalog

Title

The Jewish family book / [edited by] Sharon Strassfeld & Kathy Green ; photography by Bill Aron.

Publication

Toronto ; New York : Bantam, 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Strassfeld, Sharon.
• Green, Kathy.

Description

453 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Bantam Jewish bookshelf

Uniform Title

The Bantam Jewish bookshelf.

Subject

• Jewish families > Religious life
• Jewish religious education > Home training
• Jews > United States > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Beginning : In the hospital waiting room / Richard Israel -- On having children -- Stereotypes : on becoming a Jewish mother / Paula Hyman -- Adoption -- The Jewish single parent / Anita Belt -- When one parent is not Jewish.
• Celebrating : Giving names -- Brit and naming / Rachel Falkove and the editors -- Introducing your child to your Jewish life -- Developing Jewish rituals for your family / Shoshana Silberman -- Kashrut : how do we eat / Sheila Weinberg -- Planning a simkha : or, how to have a Jewish affair -- Bar/Bat mitzvah -- Learning : The Working parent -- Preschool education / Ruth Pinkenson Feldman -- Evaluating schools / Daniel Margolis -- In praise of Jewish day schools / Robert Abramson -- Choosing an afternoon Hebrew school -- 10 ways to be a responsible parent in a school -- Informal education : Jewish play -- Jewish camping / Marilyn Sladowsky -- Israel, a learning laboratory / David Zisenwine -- Educating the special child / Gila Vogel -- Jewish books for children -- Things to make for (and sometimes with) children.
• Issues : Sibling rivalry -- Hanukah and Christmas : living in two cultures -- Talking with our children about sex / Estelle and Eugene B. Borowitz -- Talking with our children about money -- Talking with our children about God / Hershel Matt -- Talking with our children about death / Earl Grollman -- Talking with our children about the Holocaust -- Bella Savran and Eva Fogelman -- When words fail : child abuse -- Planting the seeds to grow Jewish roots / Arthur Kurzweil -- Ethical Wills.
• Letting Go : Adolescents : letting go -- Between you and your adolescent -- Freedom, limits, and discipline -- Kids on kids : teenagers talk about themselves / Alisa Israel -- Interdating : Richard Israel -- After high school -- Jewish life on campus / Richard Levy -- My son the swami.
• Growing : The Empty nest -- On becoming a grandparent / Max Ticktin, an anonymous Bubbe, and Sidney Greenberg -- Meeting our parents in new ways -- Dealing with elderly parents : nursing homes -- Thinking it over / Esther Ticktin -- Dear Alisa / Richard Israel -- Appendix : people, places, and things / Audrey Freidman Marcus and the editors.

ISBN

0553013394 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^81066703^

OCLC

7555494

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library