Research Catalog

Title

Sexual abuse, shonda and concealment in Orthodox Jewish communities / Michael Lesher ; foreword by Dane S. Claussen.

Author

Lesher, Michael.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

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Details

Description

viii, 287 p.; 23 cm

Summary

"This book is the first to analyze, and attempt to explain the methods by which cases of child sexual abuse have been systematically concealed in Orthodox Jewish communities. The book describes a number of characteristic cases of such cover-ups"--

Subject

• Sexually abused children > United States
• Child sexual abuse > United States
• Orthodox Judaism > United States
• Conspiracies > United States
• Child Abuse, Sexual > ethnology
• Shame
• Mandatory Reporting
• Denial, Psychological
• Judaism > psychology
• Truth Disclosure
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-280) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / by Dane S. Claussen -- Introduction -- Coverage and cover-ups -- Some you (may) know about -- The ones that got away -- Child sex abuse as news -- Backlash strategies, past and present -- Who guards the guardians? -- Abuse of power, orthodox style -- Truth and consequences -- Courting disaster : how rabbinic courts can control a sex -- Self-policing or "thought-policing" -- The culture of denial -- A history of silence -- 10. The politics of piety -- East of eden : "innocence," sex and sex abuse -- Out of the closet -- Chapter notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780786471256 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 9781476615974 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014019604

OCLC

• 881318234
• SCSB-12481720

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library