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...
Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection of intermarriage and...
When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are "lost" to the Jewish religion. Inthis provocative book, Keren R. McGinity shows that it is not necessarily so. She looks at intermarriage and parenthood through the eyes of a post-World War II cohort of Jewish men and discovers what intermarriage has meant to them and their families. She finds that these husbands strive to bring up their children as Jewish without losing their heritage.Marrying Outargues that the "gendered ethnicity" of intermarried Jewish men, growing out of their religious and...
When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are "lost" to the Jewish religion. Inthis provocative book...
