Download or read book Sustaining the Jewish Family written by AJC Task Force on Jewish Family Policy and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish Family and Life written by Yosef I. Abramowitz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Crisis and Continuity written by Norman Linzer and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how Jewish induction into Christian society has led to a breakdown in Jewish family relationships.
Download or read book Sustaining the Nation written by Monica Heller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic investigation of language, nationalism, mobility and political economy set across francophone Canada. The book examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language, gender-has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the organization of global circulation of human and natural resources.
Download or read book Jewish Family written by Alex Pomson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Authenticity How Jewish American Families Sustain Philanthropic Values and Behaviors Across Generations written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authenticity: How Jewish American families sustain philanthropic values and behaviors across generations.
Download or read book The Jewish Family written by Norman Linzer and published by New York, N.Y. : Human Sciences Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores a central issue confronting the Jewish family.
Download or read book The Jewish Family and Jewish Continuity written by Steven Bayme and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish family in America is by and large a reflection of the general American family. With the rise of divorce and the increasing preference for alternative life styles, the traditional Jewish family, like its American counterpart, is under increasing challenge. When the effects of intermarriage and a lower-than-average birth rate are added in, the continuity of the Jewish family and Jewish life is under even greater threat. The essays in this volume, by distinguished scholars and social-policy theorists, assess the situation and prescribe policy measures to minimize the adverse affects of these trends when necessary or possible. Among the questions addressed are adoption, divorce, abortion, feminism, and pornography. It is the hope of the editors and contributors alike that their work will not only aid in preserving the American Jewish family, but will have wider resonance as well.
Download or read book Jewish Families written by Jonathan Boyarin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From stories of biblical patriarchs and matriarchs and their children, through the Gospel’s Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and to modern Jewish families in fiction, film, and everyday life, the family has been considered key to transmitting Jewish identity. Current discussions about the Jewish family’s supposed traditional character and its alleged contemporary crisis tend to assume that the dynamics of Jewish family life have remained constant from the days of Abraham and Sarah to those of Tevye and Golde in Fiddler on the Roof and on to Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint. Jonathan Boyarin explores a wide range of scholarship in Jewish studies to argue instead that Jewish family forms and ideologies have varied greatly throughout the times and places where Jewish families have found themselves. He considers a range of family configurations from biblical times to the twenty-first century, including strictly Orthodox communities and new forms of family, including same-sex parents. The book shows the vast canvas of history and culture as well as the social pressures and strategies that have helped shape Jewish families, and suggests productive ways to think about possible futures for Jewish family forms.
Download or read book The Hadassah Jewish Family Book of Health and Wellness written by Dr. Robin E. Berman and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish people have special concerns, approaches, and attitudes about health and wellness, due in part to certain illnesses known as "Jewish genetic diseases," such as Tay-Sachs, Niemann-Pick, Gaucher, and others. Beyond these genetic diseases, however, the entire range of topics and issues related to health and wellness has long been of great interest to the religious and secular Jewish community. Jewish tradition has developed many special approaches to health and health-related issues, based on the hallowed traditions and precepts found in the Torah, its commentaries, and the vast literature written by rabbinic authorities throughout the centuries. Similarly, Jewish secular culture has developed many special attitudes and approaches to the issues in this book regarding women's health, nutrition, raising children, caregiving, and other special issues. The Hadassah Jewish Family Book of Health and Wellness, written in collaboration with Hadassah: The Women's Zionist Organization of America, known throughout the world for its leadership as a major force in health research and education, provides a much-needed resource and guide to physical health and spiritual issues that are of concern to Jewish families. This practical book is an essential reference for maintaining family health in keeping with Jewish tradition. It is filled with useful advice in an easy-to-understand format. With contributions from top experts in medicine and Jewish education, the book covers the crucial issues of healing and spirituality, marriage and family, sexuality, women's special issues, food and diet, emotional and mental health, and exercise. The Hadassah Jewish Family Book of Health and Wellness is a comprehensive health guide that will prove useful for every member of your Jewish family.
Download or read book After the Return written by Mordechai Becher and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential work for the newly observant on how to ease into a religious lifestyle and maintain good family relations. This practical halachic guide discusses real-life situations, such as dealing with parental requests that are contrary to Jewish law, attending family ceremonies in non-Orthodox settings, and how to solve kashruth dilemmas.
Download or read book Sustaining Conflict written by Katherine Natanel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustaining Conflict develops a groundbreaking theory of political apathy, using a combination of ethnographic material, narrative, and political, cultural, and feminist theory. It examines how the status quo is maintained in Israel-Palestine, even by the activities of Jewish Israelis who are working against the occupation of Palestinian territories. The book shows how hierarchies and fault lines in Israeli politics lead to fragmentation, and how even oppositional power becomes routine over time. Most importantly, the book exposes how the occupation is sustained through a carefully crafted system that allows sympathetic Israelis to Òknowingly not know,Ó further disconnecting them from the plight of Palestinians. While focusing on Israel, this is a book that has lessons for how any authoritarian regime is sustained through apathy.
Download or read book Jewish Family Education as a Vehicle for Jewish Identification Family Cohesion and Congregational Bonding written by Steven M. Fink and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theological principle undergirding this study maintains that God is desirous of our creating, sustaining, and perpetuating strong and vibrant Jewish individuals, families, congregations, and Jewish communities. The challenge facing the synagogue is how to strengthen the Jewish family, how to assist it in transmitting Jewish identity, and how to create bonds between the disparate family units that make up a congregation. This study examines the process of Jewish identity formation. It stresses the role of the family in creating Jewish identity. It looks at the Jewish family from historical and sociological perspectives and investigates the contemporary situation of the American Jewish family. The most important conclusion reached in this study is that Jewish families have the most important role in communicating Jewish identity. The study goes on to examine the role of the synagogue in supporting the family. This study will show that Jewish family education is an effective strategy for meeting the contemporary challenges facing Jewish families, synagogues, and their rabbis.
Download or read book Germans into Jews written by Sharon Gillerman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germans into Jews turns to an often overlooked and misunderstood period of German and Jewish history—the years between the world wars. It has been assumed that the Jewish community in Germany was in decline during the Weimar Republic. But, Sharon Gillerman demonstrates that Weimar Jews sought to rejuvenate and reconfigure their community as a means both of strengthening the German nation and of creating a more expansive and autonomous Jewish entity within the German state. These ambitious projects to increase fertility, expand welfare, and strengthen the family transcended the ideological and religious divisions that have traditionally characterized Jewish communal life. Integrating Jewish history, German history, gender history, and social history, this book highlights the experimental and contingent nature of efforts by Weimar Jews to reassert a new Jewish particularism while simultaneously reinforcing their commitment to Germanness.
Download or read book Love Marriage and Jewish Families written by Sylvia Barack Fishman and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-22 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of gender, love, and family - as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation - have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and protocols. Sylvia Barack Fishman gathers the work of social historians and legal scholars who study transformations in the intimate realms of partnering and family construction among Jews. Following a substantive introduction, the volume casts a broad net. Chapters explore the current situation in both the United States and Israel, attending to what once were considered unconventional household arrangements - including extended singlehood, cohabitating couples, single Jewish mothers, and GLBTQ families - along with the legal ramifications and religious backlash. Together, these essays demonstrate how changes in the understanding of male and female roles and expectations over the past few decades have contributed to a social revolution with profound - and paradoxical - effects on partnering, marriage, and family formation. This diverse anthology - with chapters focusing on demography, ethnography, and legal texts - will interest scholars and students in Jewish studies, women's and gender studies, Israel studies, and American Jewish history, sociology, and culture.
Download or read book The Chosen Few written by Maristella Botticini and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process.
Download or read book Growing Together written by Jeffrey L. Schein and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
