Beyond Chrismukkah: the Christian-Jewish interfaith family in the United States

"Drawing on historical research, ethnography, and original interviews, Beyond Chrismukkah describes and analyzes how interfaith Christian-Jewish families were understood, viewed, and treated in the larger American social milieu from 1965 through the present. [Mehta] shows how during the latter...

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Main Author: Mehta, Samira K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2018]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"Drawing on historical research, ethnography, and original interviews, Beyond Chrismukkah describes and analyzes how interfaith Christian-Jewish families were understood, viewed, and treated in the larger American social milieu from 1965 through the present. [Mehta] shows how during the latter half of the twentieth century, interfaith marriage was subject to much the same dynamic and dramatic change that took place generally in American culture: from 1965 to 2010, the rate of intermarriage for American Jews rose from less than 10% to its current rate of between 40-50%. She argues that the understanding of ethnicity, and, in particular, the turn to multiculturalism in the 1990s, generated significant cultural and political change over time."...
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xii, 260 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781469636368
9781469636351