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Table of Contents
Foreword

Preface: Doing the Jewish Family

Introduction

1. Terms of Debate Family History and the History of Families
Bearing the Children of Israel
Narrating the Family Journey
Husbands, Wives, and Rabbis in Antiquity
In the Ancient Neighborhood
"Jewish Gender"?
Beyond "Tradition" and "Modernity"
An All-Too-Quick Trip to Israel
2. State of the Question The Medieval Jewish Past Today
Mediterranean Wolrds
Dreamtimes and Lifetimes
Leaving Ashkenaz
Back to Europe?
From Ethnic Dissolution to Ashkenaz Regained
Jewish Genes 3. In a New Key Off-Key Echoes of Old Prejudice
The Return of "Race"?
Families Undone and Redone
Suturing the Tears in Family Memory
Cut to Identity
Possible Futures
Keeping Up with the Goldbergs
Who Needs the Jewish Family?
Notes Bibliography
Index

Jewish Families Key Words in Jewish Studies

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 23/07/2013
      ISBN13: 9780813562919, 978-0813562919
      ISBN10: 0813562910
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      Anthropology Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Foreword

      Preface: Doing the Jewish Family

      Introduction

      1. Terms of Debate Family History and the History of Families
      Bearing the Children of Israel
      Narrating the Family Journey
      Husbands, Wives, and Rabbis in Antiquity
      In the Ancient Neighborhood
      "Jewish Gender"?
      Beyond "Tradition" and "Modernity"
      An All-Too-Quick Trip to Israel
      2. State of the Question The Medieval Jewish Past Today
      Mediterranean Wolrds
      Dreamtimes and Lifetimes
      Leaving Ashkenaz
      Back to Europe?
      From Ethnic Dissolution to Ashkenaz Regained
      Jewish Genes 3. In a New Key Off-Key Echoes of Old Prejudice
      The Return of "Race"?
      Families Undone and Redone
      Suturing the Tears in Family Memory
      Cut to Identity
      Possible Futures
      Keeping Up with the Goldbergs
      Who Needs the Jewish Family?
      Notes Bibliography
      Index

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