Mishpachah / edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon. - 1 online resource (268 pages). - Studies in Jewish civilization ; 27 . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Contains papers presented at the 27th Annual Klutznick-Harris-Schwalb Symposium, October 26-27, 2014, in Omaha, Nebraska.

Uncovering the ongoing parental role in education in the rabbinic period / Mishnah gittin: family relations as metaphor for national relations / All in the family: ancient Israelite and Judahite families in context / Family values and biblical courtship and marriage: spanning the time barrier / Presumptuous Halachah: on determining the status of relationships outside Jewish marriage / Agunot, immigration, and modernization, from 1857 to 1896 / Lost, hidden, discovered: theologies of DNA in North American Judaism and Messianic Judaism / Contemporary modern orthodox guidance books on marital sexuality / Challah from Abba: the modern Jewish father / "Jewish education begins at home": Training parents to raise American Jewish children after World War II / Modern families: multifaceted identities in the Jewish adoptive family / The Jewish perspective in creating human embryos using cloning technologies / Multiplying motherhood: gestational surrogate motherhood and Jewish law / Susan Marks -- David Brodsky -- Cynthia Shafer-Elliott -- Charles David Isbell -- Gail Labovitz -- Haim Sperber -- Sarah Imhoff and Hillary Kael -- Evyatar Marienberg -- Joshua Brown -- Joshua L. Furman -- Jennifer Sartori -- John D. Loike -- Pamela Laufer-Ukeles.

Open Access

9781612494692


Jews--Cultural assimilation.
Jewish families.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
Familles juives--Congres.
Juifs--Acculturation--États-Unis--Congres.
Jewish families--Congresses.
Domestic relations--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.
Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States--Congresses.


United States.


Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.