Triple Play: Deconstructing Jewish Lives


 

Publication Date: January 1993

Publisher: Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry

Author(s): Sylvia Barack Fishman

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: American Jews; Gender; Jewish identification

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Following the lead and example of Marshall Sklare, this paper uses the tools and quantitative and qualitative social science analysis along with literary analysis to explore changing behaviors and attitudes of Jewish women, and manifestation of connectedness to and alienation from Judaism, the Jewish people, and Jewish institutions among them.