Research Catalog

Title

Mishpachah : the Jewish family in tradition and in transition / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon.

Publication

West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)
• Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization
• University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies
• Klutznick-Harris Symposium (27th : 2014 : Omaha, Neb.)

Description

xxii, 268 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in Jewish civilization ; volume 27

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Studies in Jewish civilization 27.

Subject

• Jewish families > Congresses
• Domestic relations > Religious aspects > Judaism > Congresses
• Jews > Cultural assimilation > United States > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Contains papers presented at the 27th Annual Klutznick-Harris-Schwalb Symposium, October 26-27, 2014, in Omaha, Nebraska.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Uncovering the ongoing parental role in education in the rabbinic period / Susan Marks -- Mishnah gittin: family relations as metaphor for national relations / David Brodsky -- All in the family: ancient Israelite and Judahite families in context / Cynthia Shafer-Elliott -- Family values and biblical courtship and marriage: spanning the time barrier / Charles David Isbell -- Presumptuous Halachah: on determining the status of relationships outside Jewish marriage / Gail Labovitz -- Agunot, immigration, and modernization, from 1857 to 1896 / Haim Sperber -- Lost, hidden, discovered: theologies of DNA in North American Judaism and Messianic Judaism / Sarah Imhoff and Hillary Kael -- Contemporary modern orthodox guidance books on marital sexuality / Evyatar Marienberg -- Challah from Abba: the modern Jewish father / Joshua Brown -- "Jewish education begins at home": Training parents to raise American Jewish children after World War II / Joshua L. Furman -- Modern families: multifaceted identities in the Jewish adoptive family / Jennifer Sartori -- The Jewish perspective in creating human embryos using cloning technologies / John D. Loike -- Multiplying motherhood: gestational surrogate motherhood and Jewish law / Pamela Laufer-Ukeles.

ISBN

• 9781557537577
• 1557537577
• 9781612494685 (canceled/invalid)
• 1612494684 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781612494692 (canceled/invalid)
• 1612494692 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016016885

OCLC

• 944463407
• SCSB-12520794

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library