Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century

Table of contents

• Title Page *
• Studies in Contemporary Jewry *
• Preface vii
• Contents ix
• Symposium - Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century *
• The Place of Ethnic Identity in the Development of Personal Identity: A Challenge for the Jewish Family 3
• Notes *
• Marriage, Americanization and American Jewish Culture, 1900–1920 27
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• Making Fragmentation Familiar: Barry Levinson's Avalon 49
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• The Economics of Contemporary American Jewish Family Life 65
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• Children of Intermarriage: How “jewish”? 81
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• What Happened to the Extended Jewish Family? Jewish Homes for the Aged in Eastern Europe 128
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• Cohesion and Rupture: the Jewish Family in East European Ghettos During the Holocaust 143
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• The “family-Community” Model in Haredi Society 166
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• We Are All One Bereaved Family: Personal Loss and Collective Mourning in Israeli Society 178
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• Essays *
• Evangelists in a Strange Land: American Missionaries in Israel, 1948–1967 195
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• Balfour's Mission to Palestine: Science, Strategy and Vision in the Inauguration of the Hebrew University 214
• Notes 228
• Review Essays *
• Vichy and the Jews: A Past That is Not Past 235
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• Mastering the Middle East: Israel in a Regional Context 250
• Examining the Oslo Process: A First Cut 256
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• Book Reviews *
• Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide 265
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• History and the Social Sciences 281
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• Language, Literature and the Arts 307
• Notes 309
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• Religion, Thought and Education 325
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• Zionism, Israel and the Middle East 339
• Notes 349
• Recently Completed Doctoral Dissertations 351
• Studies in Comtemporary Jewry XV 360