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Table of Contents Virtual History Tour Population, by State Introduction Any discussion of American Jewish family life as an institution must view it within the context of contemporary American social, economic, and political life.

As thousands of young immigrant families poured into America, swelling the ranks of the urban poor, a chorus of concerned social workers, rabbis, sisterhood presidents, and journalists collectively sounded an alarm. The fate of the Jewish family, they feared, hung in the balance. At first, the Jewish community ignored the small but steadily growing number of unwed immigrant mothers; shame and social convention precluded public discussion, let alone intervention.

Intelligent Jewish men and women, prominent in philanthropy, were outraged that the virtue of Jewish girlhood and womanhood could be publicly assailed. She often insults me in the presence of strangers. The National Desertion Bureau went further still by taking systematic steps to apprehend deserters.

Betweenwhen the bureau was first established, andwhen social workers no longer considered desertion to be a serious problem, over twelve thousand cases, many of them including repeat offenders, came to its attention.

Why has that unique tower of strength disappeared from our midst? Why has the home disintegrated before our eyes into a house rather than a home? Why has the family become an insignificant factor rather than the bulwark of strength that it once was?

To put it another way, the issue at hand was not so much the literal reproduction of the Jewish family as the social reproduction of yidishkayt, or Jewishness. With few exceptions, Jewish communal leaders of the interwar years did not voice much concern over intermarriage, which, they commonly believed, seldom took place.

Historic, long established integers will be preserved with little impairment, and America will be unified through means other than racial fusion.

On the wane since the s, the American Jewish birthrate has remained consistently lower than that of other Americans. As early asnative-born Rhode Island Jewish families, for example, had an average of 2. A study found that in Indianapolis the Jewish birthrate was twenty-five percent lower than that of Protestants.

Despite these rather grim indices, few Jewish communal leaders paid attention, underscoring the extent to which cultural thresholds of alarm vary from generation to generation. Meanwhile, among those who did express concern, more was said about the immediate emotional and cultural drawbacks of small families than about the long-range statistical consequences of physical attrition.

The festive meals and even family prayers lose much of their impressiveness and much of their significance as a social expression of religious life, if so few participate.

Put simply, what ailed the Jewish family was its failure to act like one. Devoid of Judaica and other tangible marks of Jewishness, the average middle-class Jewish home did not even look Jewish.

In such homes it either disappears altogether or retains only a few vestigeal [sic] practices. A study by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations of home rituals practiced by urban American Jews, for example, revealed that a striking sixty percent of respondents did not light Sabbath candles, while eighty percent eschewed the dietary laws altogether.

Some women, apparently, were out shopping on Shabbat. Others preferred to spend their time reading Browning rather than the Bible, while still others knew much more about opera than cantorial music. The modern Jewish woman stood accused of enfeebling Judaism by her inattention, neglect, and cultural illiteracy.

Although attenuated, that intimate connection endures: In other respects, however, the contemporary Jewish family seems to be holding on for dear life. Beset by a staggeringly high number of intermarriages and by fundamental and far-reaching changes in the very definition of family, the Jewish home of today is more likely to inspire a requiem than an encomium of the kind Ruskay published.

Still, if Jewish history teaches anything, it is that resilience and change, much like the bonds between family and Jewishness, go hand in hand. Images and Reality ; Edlin, Sara.

The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, — ; Kohn, Jacob. Modern Problems of Jewish Parents: Myth and Metaphor ; Ruskay, Esther Jane. Hearth and Home Essays ; Yearbook.Minhag Italiani and Minhag Benè Romì, see Italian Jews Minhag Romania, the rite of the Romaniotes, that is, the original Greek Jewish community as distinct from the Sephardim References [ edit ].

Any discussion of American Jewish family life as an institution must view it within the context of contemporary American social, economic, and political life. All contemporary American Jews are "Jews by choice" in that their relationship with the Jewish people, Judaism, and its institutions is voluntary.

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