Mishpachah

Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: “A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives—sometimes also close friends.” As accurate as such definitions are, they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real, flesh-and-blood Jewish famil...

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Otros Autores: Greenspoon, Leonard (Editor), Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay) editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press 2016
[2016]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Studies in Jewish civilization ; 27.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009637727206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Editor's Introduction
  • Contributors
  • I. The Past
  • 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
  • II. The Present
  • 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
  • III. The Future
  • The Jewish Perspective in Creating Human Embryos Using Cloning Technologies
  • Multiplying Motherhood: Gestational Surrogate Motherhood and Jewish Law.