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Title Mishpachah : the Jewish family in tradition and in transition / edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon
Published West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in Jewish civilization ; 27
Contents Uncovering the ongoing parental role in education in the rabbinic period / Susan Marks -- Mishnah gittin: family relations as metaphor for national relations / David Brodsky -- All in the family: ancient Israelite and Judahite families in context / Cynthia Shafer-Elliott -- Family values and biblical courtship and marriage: spanning the time barrier / Charles David Isbell -- Presumptuous Halachah: on determining the status of relationships outside Jewish marriage / Gail Labovitz -- Agunot, immigration, and modernization, from 1857 to 1896 / Haim Sperber -- Lost, hidden, discovered: theologies of DNA in North American Judaism and Messianic Judaism / Sarah Imhoff and Hillary Kael -- Contemporary modern orthodox guidance books on marital sexuality / Evyatar Marienberg -- Challah from Abba: the modern Jewish father / Joshua Brown -- "Jewish education begins at home": Training parents to raise American Jewish children after World War II / Joshua L. Furman -- Modern families: multifaceted identities in the Jewish adoptive family / Jennifer Sartori -- The Jewish perspective in creating human embryos using cloning technologies / John D. Loike -- Multiplying motherhood: gestational surrogate motherhood and Jewish law / Pamela Laufer-Ukeles
Notes Contains papers presented at the 27th Annual Klutznick-Harris-Schwalb Symposium, October 26-27, 2014, in Omaha, Nebraska
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States -- Congresses
Domestic relations -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- Congresses
Jewish families -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
Jewish families
Jews -- Cultural assimilation
United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay), editor.
ISBN 9781612494685
1612494684