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Informationen zum Autor JONATHAN BOYARIN is the Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Lower East Side Summer; The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe; and Powers of Diaspora: Two Essays on the Relevance of Jewish Culture. Klappentext Jonathan Boyarin explores a wide range of scholarship in Jewish studies to argue that Jewish family forms and ideologies have varied greatly throughout the times and places where Jewish families have found themselves. He considers a range of family configurations from biblical times to the twenty-first century, including strictly Orthodox communities and new forms of family, including same-sex parents, and suggests productive ways to think about possible futures for Jewish family forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
