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Acknowledgments
1. "Growing in to our skin as a Jewish family": Proposing a new approach to the study of Jewish self-formation
2. Dreidels on the Christmas tree: Jewish capital in the family
3. "Reversing some screwed up thing": Changes in families' Jewish lives over the life-course
4. "It's about the kids, right?": Jewish families as social systems
5. "This is the way our family is": The work of home-based family ritual
6. "I'm my generation": Talking with Jewish teens at home
7. Home work: Reflections on studying families for ten years
Appendix A
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Alex Pomson is a researcher and managing director of Rosov Consulting. Among numerous publications, he is co-editor of The International Handbook of Jewish Education.

Randal F. Schnoor is a sociologist and he teaches sociology and Jewish Studies at the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York.

Reviews

The research reported here is a valuable contribution to the small number of cohort studies of changes over time in the ways that Jews think of themselves and act. It is particularly important as a detailed examination of a small sample, an interwoven series of related case studies. The study is rich in its account of how people see the world and account for their behaviors. It uses theoretical concepts that add to the repertoire for understanding Jewish identity and argues for a research focus on the role of family systems in identity.
*Contemporary Jewry*