Still Jewish A History of Women and Intermarriage in America
Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America

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...

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Main Author: McGinity, Keren R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY New York University Press [2009]
Subjects:
Jewish
Keren
McGinity
across
century
closely
context
decisions
describes
examining
gender
historical
intermarriage
intermarried
intersection
lives
placing
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twentieth
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women
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Intermarriage > United States
Jewish women
Jews > Cultural assimilation
Jews > United States > Identity
Online Access:DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-473
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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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780814759615

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