Kinship, Ethnicity and Voluntary Associations: Jewish Family Life in New York City

by William E. Mitchell

Book Overview

How can Jewish relatives who range in residence and occupation from a Scarsdale doctor to a Brooklyn butcher, and who diverge in religiosity from an Orthodox cantor to a ham-eating atheist, maintain close family ties? It is a social truism that families with conflicting life styles scattered over a sprawling urban area fall apart. Even those families with a strong sense of duty to stay together begin to lose their cohesiveness as members' contacts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202363015
• ISBN13: 9780202363011
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"