| Description |
xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Based on papers delivered at the First Henry N. Rapaport Memorial Conference, held at the Jewish Theological Seminary, May 1985. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Marriage as an institution: Institution of marriage in rabbinic times / Isaiah M. Gafni -- Marriage as an institution: Jewry under Islam / Mordechai A. Friedman -- Jewish medieval marriage customs in art: creativity and adaptation / Joseph Gutmann -- pt. 2. Childhood and adolescence: Images of childhood and adolescence in Talmudic literature / David Kraemer -- Jewish children and childhood in early modern East Central Europe / Gershon David Hundert -- Lost childhood in East European Hebrew literature / Anne Lapidus Lerner -- pt. 3. Family and community: From father to son: the inheritance of spiritual leadership in Jewish communities of the Middle Ages / Avraham Grossman -- Family and community in Sephardic North Africa: historical and anthropological perspectives / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Marriage and Torah study among the Lomdim in Lithuania in the nineteenth century / Immanuel Etkes -- Modern Jewish family: image and reality / Paula E. Hyman -- pt. 4. Family relations as metaphor: Sexual metaphors [sic] and praxis in the Kabbalah / Moshe Idel -- Literary refractions of the Jewish family / Robert Alter. |
| Summary |
Explores the Jewish family through its historical, sociological and anthropological perspective and as it has been perceived by Jews over the centuries. The book has four sections, Jewish marriage as an institution, childhood and adolescence in Judaism, the Jewish community, metaphorical and literary use of family relationships. |
| Subject |
Jewish families -- Congresses.
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Jewish families. |
| Indexed Term |
Jews Family life, history |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Kraemer, David Charles.
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Henry N. Rapaport Memorial Conference (1st : 1985 : Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
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| ISBN |
0195054679 alkaline paper $24.95 |
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9780195054675 alkaline paper |
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