From stories of biblical patriarchs and matriarchs and their
children, through the Gospel's Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and
Joseph, and to modern Jewish families in fiction, film, and
everyday life, the family has been considered key to transmitting
Jewish identity. Current discussions about the Jewish family's
supposed traditional character and its alleged contemporary crisis
tend to assume that the dynamics of Jewish family life have
remained constant from the days of Abraham and Sarah to those of
Tevye and Golde in Fiddler on the Roof and on to Philip Roth's
Portnoy's Complaint. Jonathan Boyarin explores a wide range of
scholarship in Jewish studies to argue instead 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. The book shows the
vast canvas of history and culture as well as the social pressures
and strategies that have helped shape Jewish families, and suggests
productive ways to think about possible futures for Jewish family
forms.
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