Acknowledgments
1. "Growing in to our skin as a Jewish family": Proposing a new
approach to the study of Jewish self-formation
2. Dreidels on the Christmas tree: Jewish capital in the family
3. "Reversing some screwed up thing": Changes in families' Jewish
lives over the life-course
4. "It's about the kids, right?": Jewish families as social
systems
5. "This is the way our family is": The work of home-based family
ritual
6. "I'm my generation": Talking with Jewish teens at home
7. Home work: Reflections on studying families for ten years
Appendix A
Bibliography
Index
Alex Pomson is a researcher and managing director of Rosov Consulting. Among numerous publications, he is co-editor of The International Handbook of Jewish Education.
Randal F. Schnoor is a sociologist and he teaches sociology and Jewish Studies at the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York.
The research reported here is a valuable contribution to the small
number of cohort studies of changes over time in the ways that Jews
think of themselves and act. It is particularly important as a
detailed examination of a small sample, an interwoven series of
related case studies. The study is rich in its account of how
people see the world and account for their behaviors. It uses
theoretical concepts that add to the repertoire for understanding
Jewish identity and argues for a research focus on the role of
family systems in identity.
*Contemporary Jewry*
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