Still Jewish A History of Women and Intermarriage in America [Hardcover]

Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection of intermarriage and gender across the twentieth century, Keren R. McGinity describes the lives of Jewish women who intermarried while placing their decisions in historical context. The first comprehensive history of these intermarried women,Still Jewishis a multigenerational study combining in-depth personal interviews and an astute analysis of how interfaith relationships and intermarriage were portrayed in the mass media, advice manuals, and religious community-generated literature.

Still Jewishdismantles assumptions that once a Jew intermarries, she becomes fully assimilated into the majority Christian population, religion, and culture. Rather than becoming “lost” to the Jewish community, women who intermarried later in the century were more likely to raise their children with strong ties to Judaism than women who intermarried earlier in the century. Bringing perennially controversial questions of Jewish identity, continuity, and survival to the forefront of the discussion,Still Jewishaddresses topics of great resonance in a diverse America.

C. Wright Mills used the term sociological imagination to describe the insight a person has who understand[s] the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and external career of a variety of individuals. In this regard McGinitys book reveals her own strong sociological imagination.-American Jewish History

“Great poignancy.”
-Moment Magazine

“McGinitys work makes clear the need for further study of intermarriage including experiences of Jewish men; comparisons of intermarried and in-married Jewish women; consideration of same-sex intermarriages; and, finally, larger sociological studies of contemporary women.”
-Lilith

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