Most research on intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews focuses on
the United States. This volume takes a path-breaking approach,
examining countries with smaller Jewish populations so as to better
understand countries with larger Jewish populations. It focuses on
intermarriage in Great Britain, France, Scandinavia, the Soviet
Union, Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, South Africa, Australia,
Argentina and Curacao, then applies the findings to the United
States. In earlier centuries such a volume might have yielded much
diff erent conclusions. Then Jews lived in more countries,
intermarriage was not as prevalent, and social science had little
to contribute. Before World War II, the Jewish population was
dispersed much diff erently, and it continues to shift around the
world because of both push and pull factors. Like demography,
intermarriage is a dynamic process. What is true today was probably
not true in the past, nor will it be true tomorrow. The
contributors to this volume locate new forms of Jewish family
life'single parents, gay/lesbian parents, adults without children,
and couples with multiple backgrounds. These multiple family forms
raise a new question what is a Jewish family as well as a variety
of related issues. Do women and men have diff erent roles in
intermarriage? Does a family need two people to raise children?
Should there be patrilineal descent? Where do adoption, single
parenting, lesbian and gay identities, and more, fit into the
picture? Broadly, what role does the family play in transmitting a
group's culture from generation to generation? This volume presents
a portrait of Jewish demography in the twenty-first century,
brilliantly interweaving global processes with significant local
variations.
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