The Jewish Family in Global Perspective

Harriet Hartman is currently Professor Emeritus at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ (USA) and part-time faculty at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, Israel. I am the co-author of 2 previous books on gender among American Jews, Gender and American Jews: Patterns in Work, Education and Family (Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman, UPNE/Brandeis University Press, 2009) and Gender Equality and American Jews (Moshe Hartman and Harriet Hartman, SUNY Press, 1996). I have published two other edited books, in addition to my doctoral dissertation which was on a related topic, Women's Roles in Israeli Society, where I analyzed the effect of immigrating to Israel on family life and gender roles.

As the Marshall Sklare Award honoree (Association of the Social Scientific Study of Jewry) in 2019, my address was on "How Gender and Family Still Matter for Contemporary Jewry", later published in the journal Contemporary Jewry, June 2020. Since then I have been working on two related books, one on the American Jewish family, and one an edited book on the Jewish family in Comparative Perspective, the current book proposal. I have published many other articles and book chapters related to Jewish families, both American and Israeli, including a chapter on the Jewish Family in the 2016 American Jewish Year Book, which has been widely quoted. I have also presented at many professional conferences on these topics.

Chapter 1. Introduction (Harriet Hartman).- Chapter 2. Comparative Historical background (Sergio Della Pergola).- Chapter 3. Latin America (Judit Bokser Liwerant).- Chapter 4. The salutary effects of settings in the lucky country: Jewish families in Australia (Adina Bankier-Karp and David Graham).- Chapter 5. Notions of Agency: Conceptual Paradigms of Gender, Family, and Propriety among Adherents of an Ivorian Neo-Jewish Community (Nathan Paul Devir).- Chapter 6. The Transmutation of the Beta Israel Family in Ethiopia to the Ethiopian Jewish Family in Israel (Shalva Weil).- Chapter 7. Jewish families, Jews and Their Families, Jews in Families in Germany After 1945: Families, Memories, Boundaries, and Love (Dani Krantz).- Chapter 8. "Doing Judaism" for Family Unity - Conversionary in-marriages in the Jewish Community of Helsinki in the 1970s (Mercédesz Czimbalmos).- Chapter 9. Families and (Post) Modernism: Jewish Families in Israel (Sylvie Fogel-Bijaoui and Ruth Katz).- Chapter 10. Singlehood in Israel (Libby Bear).- Chapter 11. Family Welfare Effort, Total Fertility, and In Vitro Fertilization: Explaining the Israeli Anomaly (Reprint from Canadian Review of Sociology) (Shenhav-Goldberg, Rachel, Robert Brym, and Talia Lenton-Brym).- Chapter 12. Arab Middle East (*Tentative*) (Liat Alon).- Chapter 13. "Half-Breed" Jews in Post-War Soviet Union: Negotiating a Buffer-Zone Identity (Kushkova, Anna).- Chapter 14. The Bene Israel Indian Jewish Family in Transnational Context (Reprint from Journal of Comparative Family Studies) (Shalva Weil).- Chapter 15. Indian families in Canada (adapted with permission from Canadian Review of Sociology) (Kelly Train).- Chapter 16. Jewish Religious Intermarriage in Canada (Robert Brym and Rhonda Lenton).- Chapter 17. Comparative Baalot Teshuva (SA and Argentina) (Roberta Sands).- Chapter 18. Concluding Chapter (Harriet Hartman).