Jewish Intermarriages Around the World are Analyzed in a New Book from Transaction Publishers

PR Log (Press Release) – Sep 25, 2009 – Most research on intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews focuses on the United States. Jewish Intermarriage Around the World examines countries with smaller Jewish populations to understand countries with larger Jewish populations.  This volume focuses on marriage patterns in thirteen different countries and correlates the findings to the United States.

The contributors to this volume locate new forms of Jewish family life—single parents, gay/lesbian parents, adults without children, and couples with multiple backgrounds. These multiple family forms raise a new question—what is a Jewish family—as well as a variety of related issues. Jewish Intermarriage Around the World presents a portrait of Jewish demography in the twenty-first century, brilliantly interweaving global processes with significant local variations.  It addresses real dilemmas of not just what constitutes a Jewish family but what constitutes as family in general.

To order a copy of Jewish Intermarriage Around the World, contact Transaction Publishers at 888-999-6778 or order online at http://www.transactionpub.com.   Editors interested in reviewing this book in a scholarly publication can forward the request along with company information to marketing@transactionpub.com.

CONTRIBUTORS

• Jewish Intermarriage Around the World: An Overview      by Shulamit Reinharz
• Jewish Out-Marriage: A Global Perspective      by Sergio DellaPergola
• Intermarriage among Jews in France      by Erik H. Cohen
• British Jewry and Its Attitudes towards Intermarriage      by Marlena Schmool
• Kosher and the Christmas Tree: On Marriages Between Jews and Non-Jews in Sweden, Finland, and Norway     by Lars Dencik
• Mixed Marriage and Post-Soviet Aliyah      by Mark Tolts
• Intermarriage among Jews in Canada: A Demographic Perspective      by Gustave Goldmann
• Intermarriage between Jews and Gentiles in South Africa      by Sally Frankental and Stuart Rothgiesser
• Intermarriage among Jewish Australians      by Gary Eckstein
• Jewish Out-Marriage: Mexico and Venezuela      by Sergio DellaPergola
• Intermarriage: The Argentine Case      by Yaacov Rubel
• The Girls They Left Behind: Curaçao’s Jewish Women in the Nineteenth Century
by Josette Capriles Goldish