Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Analyzing the Evidence One Coalescing American and Jewish Values Two Tracing Educational and Occupational Patterns Three Learning about Jewish Education Four Educating for Jewish Living Five Forming Jewish Households and Families Six Observing Religious Environments in Jewish Homes Seven Profiling Jewish Organizational Connections Eight Negotiating Both Sides of the Hyphen Appendix Notes Subject Index Index of Names

About the Author

At Brandeis University, Sylvia Barack Fishman is Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life/ Sociology of American Jews in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department and the Co-Director of the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women. She is editor of Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction, and author of A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community, which was named 1994 Honor Book by the National Jewish Book Council.