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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819295503321

Autore

McGinity Keren R.

Titolo

Still Jewish : A History of Women and Intermarriage in America / / Keren R. McGinity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-8147-5961-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

306.8430882960973

Soggetti

Jews - Cultural assimilation

Jews - United States - Identity

Jewish women

Intermarriage - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Immigrant Jewesses Who Married “Out” -- 2 Intermarriage in an Age of Domesticity -- 3 Intermarriage Was A-Changin’ -- 4 Revitalization from Within -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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.