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

By: Publication details: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (x, 200 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781461954606 (electronic bk.)
  • 1461954606 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780813562834 (electronic bk.)
  • 081356283X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewish on Their Own Terms.DDC classification:
  • 305.8924073 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1031 .T46 2014
Online resources: Summary: 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 intermarriage among American Jews. Ethnography is used to describe the compelling concerns of all of these parties and places their anxieties firmly within the context of American religious culture and morality. </
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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 intermarriage among American Jews. Ethnography is used to describe the compelling concerns of all of these parties and places their anxieties firmly within the context of American religious culture and morality. </

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