The Jewish Family: Perceptions and Realities -- Can They Be Changed?


 

Publication Date: March 1983

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Dr. Samuel Schlafer

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Family; Marriage; History

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

I suspect that when Jewish historiography "grows up" and begins to ask the questions of the past we ought to be asking, we will find that the usual roseate picture of yesterday's Jewish Family is an idealized, sentimentalized view.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 59:3.