The Jewish Family in Global Perspective

• Autore: Hartman Harriet
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.85089924
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Contributors -- The Jewish Family in Comparative Perspective: An Introduction -- The Microsystem -- The Mesosystem -- The Environment -- The Macrosystem -- The Exosystem -- The Chronosystem -- Feedback -- Value of This Model -- The Current Volume -- References -- Demography of the Jewish Family: Continuities and Discontinuities -- Introduction -- Traditional Normative Frameworks and Contextual Factors -- Modernization and Demographic Transitions -- Ever Marrying and When -- Choice of Partner -- Marriage Stability -- Birth Rates -- Household Structure -- Contemporary and Post-Modern Patterns -- Intermarriage -- Conventional and Other Families -- Concluding Remarks: The Jewish Family from Dependent to Explanatory Variable -- References -- The Jewish Family in Latin America: Transnational Dialectics of Integration and Distinctiveness -- A Changing Reality and Its Problematics -- Latin American Jews: A Transnational Life -- Conceptualizing the Family -- Continuities and Changes as a Horizon to Approach the Jewish Family -- Women's and Family Identity: Changing Patterns of Continuity? -- The Private and the Public… Overlapping Spheres: Women-Family-Community-Society -- Family, Community and Identities Under the Signs of Pluralism -- Family on the Move. Transnationalism of Latin American Jews -- Reality, Creativity, and Beyond… the Literary Imagination in Search of Identity: The Family Recovered⋅ -- Closing Remarks -- References -- The Salutary Effects of Settings in the Lucky Country: Jewish Families in Australia -- Introduction -- The Australian Jewish Community in the International Context -- Australia and the United States -- Australia and Canada -- Australia and the United Kingdom -- Comparing Jewish and Non-Jewish Families in Australia. ; The Halfway House: Comparing Jewish, Non-Jewish and Mixed Families in Australia -- Geography -- Discussion -- Appendix (Table A1) -- References -- Notions of Agency: Conceptual Paradigms of Gender, Family, and Propriety Among Adherents of an Ivorian Neo-Jewish Community -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Contextualization -- Community Life: Learning, Customs, Observance, and Ritual -- Perspectives on Gender, Family, Agency, and Propriety -- Discussion -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- The Transmutation of the Beta Israel Family in Ethiopia to the Ethiopian Jewish Family in Israel -- Introduction -- The Beta Israel in Historical Context -- The Beta Israel Family in Ethiopia -- Migration to Israel -- Changes in Interpersonal Relations Within the Family -- Conclusion -- References -- Jewish Families, Jews and Their Families, Jews in Families in Germany After 1945: Families, Memories, Boundaries, and Love -- Organizational Structures and Statistics as Estimates -- Fate(lessness) in the Early Aftermaths: The Survivor Generation -- Between Love After Auschwitz and Living in Germany: The Second Generation -- The Other First and Second Generation: FSU Immigrants and Their Families -- Diversity Gone Wild, or Diversity Just Out in the Open? -- Nuances of Love -- References -- Films -- "Doing Judaism" for Family Unity-Conversionary in-Marriages in the Jewish Community of Helsinki in the 1970s -- Introduction -- Jewish Finland -- Conversions as the "Products" of Marriages -- The Study -- Theoretical Frameworks -- Vernacular Religion -- "Doing Religion" as a Manifestation of Women's Agency -- The Material and Methodology -- Ethical Concerns -- The Conversions of 1977 -- Family Unity Through "Doing Judaism" -- Conclusions -- Interviews -- References -- Archival Sources -- Other Archival Sources -- Other Primary Sources -- Other Sources. ; Families and (Post) Modernism: Jewish Families in Israel -- Introduction -- "Differentiated Individualization": A Statistical Analysis -- "Differentiated Individualization" by Religiosity Level: The Social Construction of (Post)Modern Familism -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Singlehood in Israel -- Introduction -- Background: Trends in Family Structure and Singlehood in the Jewish Population in Israel -- A Qualitative Study of Singlehood in Israeli Society -- Findings -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Family Welfare Effort, Total Fertility, and In Vitro Fertilization: Explaining the Israeli Anomaly -- Explanations for Israeli Exceptionalism -- The Perceived Demographic Threat -- In Vitro Fertilization in the Context of Israeli Pro-natalism -- State Versus Women's Interests? -- Conclusion -- References -- "Half-Breed" Jews in Post-war Soviet Union: Negotiating a Buffer-Zone Identity -- References -- Interviews: (All interviews were recorded in St. Petersburg, Russia, unless marked otherwise) -- The Bene Israel Indian Jewish Family in Transnational Context -- Introduction -- Indian Jews -- The Bene Israel Family in India -- Developmental Factors -- Absence of Co-residence -- Absence of a Husband-Father for Long Periods During Military Conscription -- Absence of a Husband-Father for Long Periods for Purposes of Occupational Advancement -- Absence of a Wife-Mother or Children for a Period After Childbirth -- Divorce, Separation or Widowhood -- Polygamy -- The Bene Israel Family in Israel -- Developmental Factors and Migration -- Absence of Co-residence -- The Bene Israel Family Today -- Innovation in the Western Joint Family -- Conclusion -- References -- Strangers in a Strange Land: Indian Jewish Women, Paid and Unpaid Work and Families in Canada -- The Feminization of Domestic Labour and Childcare. ; Indian Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Canada -- Indian Jewish Women, Paid and Unpaid Work and Families in India and Canada -- Maintaining Indian Jewish Culture and Identity in Canada Today -- Jewish Religious Intermarriage in Canada -- Trends -- Regression Analysis -- Sampling -- Variables -- Models -- Results -- Continental Divide -- Projections and Inhibitors -- References -- Baalot Teshuvah and Their Families from South Africa and Argentina -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Research Methods -- South Africa -- Perceptions of the South African Context -- Grandmothers and Grandchildren -- Argentina -- Further Developments -- Argentinian Jews and the Jewish Community -- Jewish Identity -- Perceptions of the Argentinian Context -- Grandmothers and Grandchildren -- Comparison -- Conclusions -- References -- The Jewish Family in Comparative Perspective: A Concluding Framework -- Jewish Family Microsystems -- Mesosystems of Jewish Families -- Macrosystem Influences on Jewish Families -- Chronosystem Influences on Jewish Families -- Exo-system Influences on Jewish Families -- A Research Agenda for Jewish Families in Global Perspective -- Regions of Analysis -- Family Microsystems -- Mesosystems Interacting with Family Microsystems -- Macrosystem -- Exosystems -- An Eye to the Future -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Jewish Family in Global Perspective
• ISBN: 3-031-45006-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910869174303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies of Jews in Society Series