Still Jewish : A History of Women and Intermarriage in America / Keren R. McGinity.
2009
HQ1031 .M394 2016
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Title
Still Jewish : A History of Women and Intermarriage in America / Keren R. McGinity.
Author
McGinity, Keren R., author.
ISBN
9780814759615
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814757307.001.0001 doi
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HQ1031 .M394 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.8430882960973
Summary
Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection of intermarriage and gender across the twentieth century, Keren R. McGinity describes the lives of Jewish women who intermarried while placing their decisions in historical context. The first comprehensive history of these intermarried women, Still Jewish is a multigenerational study combining in-depth personal interviews and an astute analysis of how interfaith relationships and intermarriage were portrayed in the mass media, advice manuals, and religious community-generated literature.Still Jewish dismantles assumptions that once a Jew intermarries, she becomes fully assimilated into the majority Christian population, religion, and culture. Rather than becoming "lost" to the Jewish community, women who intermarried later in the century were more likely to raise their children with strong ties to Judaism than women who intermarried earlier in the century. Bringing perennially controversial questions of Jewish identity, continuity, and survival to the forefront of the discussion, Still Jewish addresses topics of great resonance in the modern Jewish community and beyond.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Immigrant Jewesses Who Married "Out"
2 Intermarriage in an Age of Domesticity
3 Intermarriage Was A-Changin'
4 Revitalization from Within
Conclusion
Afterword
Appendix
Notes
Selected Index
About the Author
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Immigrant Jewesses Who Married "Out"
2 Intermarriage in an Age of Domesticity
3 Intermarriage Was A-Changin'
4 Revitalization from Within
Conclusion
Afterword
Appendix
Notes
Selected Index
About the Author