Jewish on their own terms : how intermarried couples are changing American Judaism

Jewish on their own terms : how intermarried couples are changing American Judaism / Jennifer A. Thompson.

This book provides a complex, insightful portrait of intermarried couples and the new forms of American Judaism that they are constructing. It tells the stories of intermarried couples, the rabbis and other Jewish educators who work with them, and the conflicting public conversations about intermarr...

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Main Author: Thompson, Jennifer A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
©2014
Subjects:
2000-2099
Interfaith marriage > United States.
Intermarriage > United States.
Jews > United States > Identity.
Marriage > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Jews > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Judaism > United States > 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Interfaith marriage
Intermarriage
Jews > Cultural assimilation
Jews > Identity
Judaism
Marriage > Religious aspects > Judaism
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Defining Judaism by debating intermarriage
  • American contradictions: conversations about self and community
  • What you are and what's in your heart
  • Translating Jewish experience
  • Sovereign selves in a fractured community
  • Moving forward, inconclusively: the crisis of Jewish identity.

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