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Title:

Love, marriage, and Jewish families : paradoxes of a social revolution / Sylvia Barack Fishman, editor.

Publisher:

Brandeis University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xvi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jewish families.
Marriage--Religious aspects.
Families--Religious aspects.
Jewish way of life.
Jews--Social conditions--21st century.
Jews--Social life and customs--21st century.
Love.
Marriage.
Social Identification.
Jews.
Social Change.
Families--Religious aspects.
Jewish families.
Jewish way of life.
Jews--Social conditions.
Jews--Social life and customs.
Marriage--Religious aspects.
2000 - 2099

Other Authors:

Fishman, Sylvia Barack, 1942- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part IV. Between modesty and beauty: reinterpreting female piety in the Israeli Haredi community / What's love got to do with it? Marriage and non-marriage among younger American Jews / Lea Taragin-Zeller. Caught in the middle: gender, dating, and singlehood among religious zionist Jews / Ari Engelberg -- We all still have to potty train: same-sex couple families and the American Jewish community / Jonathan Krasner -- Gays and lesbians in Israel: an overview / Irit Koren -- Part II. Family transformations -- View from a different planet: fertility attitudes, performances, and policies among Jewish Israelis / Sergio DellaPergola -- Dreams and realities: American Jewish young adults' decisions about fertility / Michelle Shain -- Jewish single mothers by choice / Tehilla Blumenthal -- Judaism as the "third shift": Jewish families negotiating work, family, and religious lives / Rachel S. Bernstein and Sylvia Barack Fishman -- Part III. Marriage and the law -- Behold you are [fill in the blank] to me: contemporary legal and ritual approaches to qiddushin / Gail Labovitz -- Negotiating divorce at the intersection of Jewish and civil law in North America / Lisa Fishbayn Joffe -- Women, divorce, and mamzer status in the state of Israel / Susan Weiss -- Part IV. Backlash and reaction -- The secret of Jewish masculinity: contemporary Haredi gender ideology / Yoel Finkelman -- Between modesty and beauty: reinterpreting female piety in the Israeli Haredi community / Lea Taragin-Zeller.

Series:

HBI series on Jewish women

ISBN:

1611688604
9781611688603
1611688590
9781611688597

OCLC:

(OCoLC)907190282

LCCN:

2015032434

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)