Author: National Conference of Jewish Charities (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Biennial Session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States
Author: National Conference of Jewish Charities (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Biennial session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States
Author: Mishpachah
Author: Leonard J. GreenspoonPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612494692
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives-sometimes also close friends." As accurate as such definitions are, they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real, flesh-and-blood Jewish families. Families have been part of Jewish life for as long as there have been Jews. It is useful to recall that the family is the basic narrative building block of the stories in the biblical book of Genesis, which can be interpreted in the light of ancient literary traditions, archaeological discoveries, and rabbinic exegesis. Rabbinic literature also is filled with discussions about interactions, rancorous as well as amicable, between parents and among siblings. Sometimes harmony characterizes relations between the parent and the child; as often, alas, there is conflict. The rabbis, always aware of the realities of life, chide and advise as best they can. For the modern period, the changing roles of males and females in society at large have contributed to differing expectations as to their roles within the family. The relative increase in the number of adopted children, from both Jewish and non-Jewish backgrounds, and more recently, the shifting reality of assisted reproductive technologies and the possibility of cloning human embryos, all raise significant moral and theological questions that require serious consideration. Through the studies brought together in this volume, more than a dozen scholars look at the Jewish family in wide variety of social, historical, religious, and geographical contexts. In the process, they explore both diverse and common features in the past and present, and they chart possible courses for Jewish families in the future.
That Pride of Race and Character
Author: Caroline E. LightPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479854530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
“It has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,” declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. “Their reasons are partly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race and character which has supported them through so many ages of trial and vicissitude.” In That Pride of Race and Character, Caroline E. Light examines the American Jewish tradition of benevolence and charity and explores its southern roots. Light provides a critical analysis of benevolence as it was inflected by regional ideals of race and gender, showing how a southern Jewish benevolent empire emerged in response to the combined pressures of post-Civil War devastation and the simultaneous influx of eastern European immigration. In an effort to combat the voices of anti-Semitism and nativism, established Jewish leaders developed a sophisticated and cutting-edge network of charities in the South to ensure that Jews took care of those considered “their own” while also proving themselves to be exemplary white citizens. Drawing from confidential case files and institutional records from various southern Jewish charities, the book relates how southern Jewish leaders and their immigrant clients negotiated the complexities of “fitting in” in a place and time of significant socio-political turbulence. Ultimately, the southern Jewish call to benevolence bore the particular imprint of the region’s racial mores and left behind a rich legacy.
Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities
Author: Wives without Husbands
Author: Anna R. IgraPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876585
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute "deadbeat dads," Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make "runaway husbands" support their families. Anna R. Igra investigates the interrelated histories of marriage and welfare policy in the early 1900s, revealing how reformers sought to make marriage the solution to women's and children's poverty. Igra taps a rich trove of case files from the National Desertion Bureau, a Jewish husband-location agency, and follows hundreds of deserted women through the welfare and legal systems of early twentieth-century New York City. She integrates a broad range of topics, including Americanization as a gendered process, breadwinning as a measure of manhood, the relationship between consumer culture and social policy formation, the class dimensions of family law, and the Jewish community as a source of welfare policy innovation. Igra analyzes the history of antidesertion reform from its emergence in social policy debates, through the establishment of domestic relations courts, to Depression relief programs. She shows that early twentieth-century reformers, by attempting to make instrumental use of poor people's intimate relations, anticipated welfare policies in our own time that promote marriage as an answer to poverty.
Biennial Report of the Board of Control of the State Charitable Institutions of Kansas
Author: Kansas. Board of Control of State Charitable InstitutionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Biennial session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States
Author: Proceedings
Author: National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Proceedings at the Annual Session
Author: National Conference of Jewish Communal ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description