Mishpachah / edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon.

• TeilnehmendeR: Greenspoon, Leonard J.
• Place / Publishing House: West Lafayette, Indiana : : Purdue University Press,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish civilization ; 27.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (291 pages).
• Notes: Contains papers presented at the 27th Annual Klutznick-Harris-Schwalb Symposium, October 26-27, 2014, in Omaha, Nebraska.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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.