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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.