Beyond Chrismukkah
Subtitle: the Christian-Jewish interfaith family in the United States
By: Samira K. Mehta
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781469636368; 9781469636351
Subjects: Children of interfaith marriage; Interfaith families; Jews; Identity; Interfaith marriage
Description: "Drawing on historical research, ethnography, and original interviews, Beyond Chrismukkah describes and analyzes how interfaith Christian-Jewish families were understood, viewed, and treated in the larger American social milieu from 1965 through the present. [Mehta] shows how during the latter half of the twentieth century, interfaith marriage was subject to much the same dynamic and dramatic change that took place generally in American culture: from 1965 to 2010, the rate of intermarriage for American Jews rose from less than 10% to its current rate of between 40-50%. She argues that the understanding of ethnicity, and, in particular, the turn to multiculturalism in the 1990s, generated significant cultural and political change over time."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To stem a rising tide: interfaith marriage and religious institutions; title: Blended or transcended: interfaith families in popular culture, 1970-1980; title: One roof, one religion: the campaign for a Jewish (interfaith) family; title: They sure will be of minority groups: interreligious, interracial, multiethnic Jewish families; title: Chrismukkah: millennial multiculturalism; title: Living the interfaith family life: dual religious heritages shaping family cultures; title: Conclusion: For the sake of the children: identity, practice, and the adult children of intermarriage.