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Title

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

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : KTAV Pub. House, c1994.

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Additional Authors

• Bayme, Steven.
• Rosen, Gladys.

Description

xiv, 342 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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.

Subject

• Jewish families > United States
• Jews > United States > Social conditions
• Judaism > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0881255033
• 0881254959 (pbk.)
• 0881253189

LCCN

^^^94029158^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library