The Jewish Family

Author : Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253033123

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Jewish Family by Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor Pdf

In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor advance a new appreciation for the deep significance of Jewish family in developing Jewish identity. This book is the result of ten years of research focused on a small sample of diverse families. Through their work, the authors paint an intricate picture of the ecosystem that the family unit provides for identity formation over the life course. They draw upon theories of family development as well as sociological theories of the transmission of social and cultural capital in their analysis of the research. They find that family networks, which are often intergenerational, are just as significant as cultural capital, such as knowledge and competence in Judaism, to the formation of Jewish identity. Pomson and Schnoor provide readers with a unique view into the complexity of being Jewish in North America today.

Author : Yosef I. Abramowitz,Susan Silverman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0307440869

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Jewish Family and Life by Yosef I. Abramowitz,Susan Silverman Pdf

A guide for Jewish families on how to incorporate Jewish traditions into their lives including bedtime and morning rituals, the meaning of the holidays, and advice on communicating codes of behavior to children.

Author : Leonard J. Greenspoon
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781612494692

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Mishpachah by Leonard J. Greenspoon Pdf

Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives-sometimes also close friends." As accurate as such definitions are, they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real, flesh-and-blood Jewish families. Families have been part of Jewish life for as long as there have been Jews. It is useful to recall that the family is the basic narrative building block of the stories in the biblical book of Genesis, which can be interpreted in the light of ancient literary traditions, archaeological discoveries, and rabbinic exegesis. Rabbinic literature also is filled with discussions about interactions, rancorous as well as amicable, between parents and among siblings. Sometimes harmony characterizes relations between the parent and the child; as often, alas, there is conflict. The rabbis, always aware of the realities of life, chide and advise as best they can. For the modern period, the changing roles of males and females in society at large have contributed to differing expectations as to their roles within the family. The relative increase in the number of adopted children, from both Jewish and non-Jewish backgrounds, and more recently, the shifting reality of assisted reproductive technologies and the possibility of cloning human embryos, all raise significant moral and theological questions that require serious consideration. Through the studies brought together in this volume, more than a dozen scholars look at the Jewish family in wide variety of social, historical, religious, and geographical contexts. In the process, they explore both diverse and common features in the past and present, and they chart possible courses for Jewish families in the future.

Author : Danielle Dardashti,Roni Sarig
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781580233330

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The Jewish Family Fun Book by Danielle Dardashti,Roni Sarig Pdf

This celebration of Jewish family life is the perfect guide for families wanting to put a new Jewish spin on holidays, holy days, and even the everyday. Full of activities, games, and history, it is sure to inspire parents, children, and extended family to connect with Judaism in fun, creative ways.

Author : Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UVA:X002403461

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The Jewish Family in Antiquity by Shaye J. D. Cohen Pdf

Author : Laura Arnold Leibman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197530498

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Once We Were Slaves by Laura Arnold Leibman Pdf

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Author : David Charles Kraemer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Domestic relations (Jewish law)
ISBN : 9780195054675

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The Jewish Family by David Charles Kraemer Pdf

This collection of essays, many previously unpublished, explores the Jewish family both in its historical reality and as it has been perceived and imagined by Jews over the centuries.

Author : Laura Arnold Leibman
Publisher : Bard Graduate Center - Cultura
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1941792200

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The Art of the Jewish Family by Laura Arnold Leibman Pdf

In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years between 1750 and 1850: a letter from impoverished Hannah Louzada seeking assistance; a set of silver cups owned by Reyna Levy Moses; an ivory miniature owned by Sarah Brandon Moses, who was born enslaved and became one of the wealthiest Jewish women in New York; a book created by Sarah Ann Hays Mordecai; and a family silhouette owned by Rebbetzin Jane Symons Isaacs. These objects offer intimate and tangible views into the lives of Jewish American women from a range of statuses, beliefs, and lifestyles--both rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, slaves and slaveowners. Each chapter creates a biography of a single woman through an object, offering a new methodology that looks past texts alone to material culture in order to further understand early Jewish American women's lives and restore their agency as creators of Jewish identity. While much of the available history was written by men, the objects that Leibman studies were made for and by Jewish women. Speaking to American Jewish life, women's studies, and American history, The Art of the Jewish Family sheds new light on the lives and values of these women, while also revealing the social and religious structures that led to Jewish women being erased from historical archives. The Art of the Jewish Family was the winner of three 2020 National Jewish Book Awards: the Celebrate 350 Award for American Jewish Studies, the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award for History, and the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies.

Author : Sharon Strassfeld,Kathy Green
Publisher : Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0553013394

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The Jewish Family Book by Sharon Strassfeld,Kathy Green Pdf

Discusses names, adoption, schools, prejudice, holidays, intermarriage, celebrations, divorce, single parenting, and other aspects of raising a child in the Jewish faith

Author : Blu Greenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781439147603

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How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household by Blu Greenberg Pdf

Filled with practical advice as well as history, Blu Greenberg's book is a comprehensive guide to the joys and complexities of running a modern Jewish home. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household is a modern, comprehensive guide covering virtually every aspect of Jewish home life. It provides practical advice on how to manage a Jewish home in the traditional way and offers fascinating accounts of the history behind the tradition. In a warm, personal style, Blu Greenberg shows that, contrary to popular belief, the home, and not the synagogue, is the most important institution in Jewish life. Divided into three large sections—"The Jewish Way," "Special Stages of Life," and "Celebration and Remembering"—this book educates the uninitiated and reminds the already observant Jew of how Judaism approaches daily life. Topics include prayer, dress, holidays, food preparation, marriage, birth, death, parenthood, and many others. This description of the modern-yet-traditional Jewish household will earn special regard among the many American Jews who are re-exploring their ties to Jewish tradition. Such Jews will find this book a flexible guide that provides a knowledge of the requirements of traditional Judaism without advocating immediate and complete compliance. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household will also appeal to observant Jews, providing them with helpful tips on how to manage their homes and special insights into the most minute details and procedures in a traditional household. Herself a traditional Jew, Blu Greenberg is nevertheless quite sympathetic to feminist views on the role of women in Jewish observance. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household therefore speaks intimately to women who are struggling to reconcile their identities as modern women with their commitments to traditional Judaism.

Author : Joanna Beata Michlic
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512600117

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Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present by Joanna Beata Michlic Pdf

This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children. Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe, themes explored include: how Jewish parents handled the Nazi threat; rescue and resistance within the Jewish family unit; the transformation of gender roles under duress; youth's wartime and early postwar experiences; postwar reconstruction of the Jewish family; rehabilitation of Jewish children and youth; and the role of Zionism in shaping the present and future of young survivors. Relying on newly available archival material and novel research in the areas of families, youth, rescue, resistance, gender, and memory, this volume will be an indispensable guide to current work on the familial and social history of the Holocaust.

Author : Steven Martin Cohen,Paula Hyman
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040025350

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The Jewish Family by Steven Martin Cohen,Paula Hyman Pdf

Author : Neal Scheindlin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827618817

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The Jewish Family Ethics Textbook by Neal Scheindlin Pdf

Judaism offers us unique—and often divergent—insights into contemporary moral quandaries. How can we use social media without hurting others? Should people become parents through cloning? Should doctors help us die? The first ethics book to address social media and technology ethics through a Jewish lens, along with teaching the additional skills of analyzing classical Jewish texts, The Jewish Family Ethics Textbook guides teachers and students of all ages in mining classical and modern Jewish texts to inform ethical decision-making. Both sophisticated and accessible, the book tackles challenges in parent-child relationships, personal and academic integrity, social media, sexual intimacy, conception, abortion, and end of life. Case studies, largely drawn from real life, concretize the dilemmas. Multifaceted texts from tradition (translated from Hebrew and Aramaic) to modernity build on one another to shed light on the deliberations. Questions for inquiry, commentary, and a summation of the texts’ implications for the case studies deepen and open up the dialogue. In keeping with the tradition of maḥloket, preserving multiple points of view, “We need not accept any of our forebears’ ideas uncritically,” Rabbi Neal Scheindlin explains. “The texts provide opportunities to discover ideas that help us think through ethical dilemmas, while leaving room for us to discuss and draw our own conclusions.”

Author : Helena Miller,Lisa D. Grant,Alex Pomson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789400703544

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International Handbook of Jewish Education by Helena Miller,Lisa D. Grant,Alex Pomson Pdf

The International Handbook of Jewish Education, a two volume publication, brings together scholars and practitioners engaged in the field of Jewish Education and its cognate fields world-wide. Their submissions make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the field of Jewish Education as we start the second decade of the 21st century. The Handbook is divided broadly into four main sections: Vision and Practice: focusing on issues of philosophy, identity and planning –the big issues of Jewish Education. Teaching and Learning: focusing on areas of curriculum and engagement Applications, focusing on the ways that Jewish Education is transmitted in particular contexts, both formal and informal, for children and adults. Geographical, focusing on historical, demographic, social and other issues that are specific to a region or where an issue or range of issues can be compared and contrasted between two or more locations. This comprehensive collection of articles providing high quality content, constitutes a difinitive statement on the state of Jewish Education world wide, as well as through a wide variety of lenses and contexts. It is written in a style that is accessible to a global community of academics and professionals.

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504026284

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"Our Crowd" by Stephen Birmingham Pdf

The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of “the 400,” a register of New York’s most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite “100,” a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. “Our Crowd” is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions.