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Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives-sometimes also close friends." As accurate as such definitions are, they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real, flesh-and-blood Jewish families. Families have been part of Jewish life for as long as there have been Jews. It is useful to recall that the family is the basic narrative building block of the stories in the biblical book of Genesis, which can be interpreted in the light of ancient literary traditions, archaeological discoveries, and rabbinic exegesis. Rabbinic literature also is filled with discussions about interactions, rancorous as well as amicable, between parents and among siblings. Sometimes harmony characterizes relations between the parent and the child; as often, alas, there is conflict. The rabbis, always aware of the realities of life, chide and advise as best they can. For the modern period, the changing roles of males and females in society at large have contributed to differing expectations as to their roles within the family. The relative increase in the number of adopted children, from both Jewish and non-Jewish backgrounds, and more recently, the shifting reality of assisted reproductive technologies and the possibility of cloning human embryos, all raise significant moral and theological questions that require serious consideration. Through the studies brought together in this volume, more than a dozen scholars look at the Jewish family in wide variety of social, historical, religious, and geographical contexts. In the process, they explore both diverse and common features in the past and present, and they chart possible courses for Jewish families in the future.
Acknowledgments

Editor’s Introduction

Contributors

I. THE PAST

Uncovering the Ongoing Parental Role in Education in the Rabbinic Period, by Susan Marks

Mishnah Gittin: Family Relations as Metaphor for National Relations, by David Brodsky

All in the Family: Ancient Israelite and Judahite Families in Context, by Cynthia Shafer-Elliott

Family Values and Biblical Courtship and Marriage: Spanning the Time Barrier, by Charles David Isbell

Presumptuous Halachah: On Determining the Status of Relationships Outside Jewish Marriage, by Gail Labovitz

Agunot, Immigration, and Modernization, from 1857 to 1896, by Haim Sperber

II. THE PRESENT

Lost, Hidden, Discovered: Theologies of DNA in North American Judaism and Messianic Judaism, by Sarah Imhoff and Hillary Kaell

Contemporary Modern Orthodox Guidance Books on Marital Sexuality, by Evyatar Marienberg

Challah from Abba: The Modern Jewish Father, by Joshua Brown

“Jewish Education Begins at Home”: Training Parents to Raise American Jewish Children after World War II, by Joshua J. Furman

Modern Families: Multifaceted Identities in the Jewish Adoptive Family, by Jennifer Sartori

III. THE FUTURE

The Jewish Perspective in Creating Human Embryos Using Cloning Technologies, by John D. Loike

Multiplying Motherhood: Gestational Surrogate Motherhood and Jewish Law, by Pamela Laufer-Ukeles

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Mishpachah: The Jewish Family in Tradition and in Transition
Studies in Jewish Civilization Volume 27
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, and the Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies
October 26–27, 2014
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Mishpachah: The Jewish Family in Tradition and in Transition
Studies in Jewish Civilization Volume 27
Editor: Leonard J. Greenspoon
The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization
Purdue University Press West Lafayette, Indiana
Copyright © 2016 by Creighton University
Published by Purdue University Press
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Names: Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay) editor.
Title: Mishpachah : the Jewish family in tradition and in transition / edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon.
Description: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2016] | Series: Studies in Jewish civilization ; 27 | Contains papers presented at the 27th Annual Klutznick-Harris-Schwalb Symposium, October 26-27, 2014, in Omaha, Nebraska. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016016885| ISBN 9781557537577 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781612494685 (epdf) | ISBN 9781612494692 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Jewish families—Congresses. | Domestic relations—Religious aspects—Judaism—Congresses. | Jews—Cultural assimilation—United States—Congresses.
Classification: LCC HQ525.J4 M56 2016 | DDC 306.85/089924—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016016885
No part of Studies in Jewish Civilization (ISSN 1070-8510) volume 27 may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Introduction
Contributors
I. THE PAST
Uncovering the Ongoing Parental Role in Education in the Rabbinic Period
Susan Marks
Mishnah Gittin : Family Relations as Metaphor for National Relations
David Brodsky
All in the Family: Ancient Israelite and Judahite Families in Context
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
Family Values and Biblical Courtship and Marriage: Spanning the Time Barrier
Charles David Isbell
Presumptuous Halachah: On Determining the Status of Relationships Outside Jewish Marriage
Gail Labovitz
Agunot , Immigration, and Modernization, from 1857 to 1896
Haim Sperber
II. THE PRESENT
Lost, Hidden, Discovered: Theologies of DNA in North American Judaism and Messianic Judaism
Sarah Imhoff and Hillary Kaell
Contemporary Modern Orthodox Guidance Books on Marital Sexuality
Evyatar Marienberg
Challah from Abba: The Modern Jewish Father
Joshua Brown
“Jewish Education Begins at Home”: Training Parents to Raise American Jewish Children after World War II
Joshua J. Furman
Modern Families: Multifaceted Identities in the Jewish Adoptive Family
Jennifer Sartori
III. THE FUTURE
The Jewish Perspective in Creating Human Embryos Using Cloning Technologies
John D. Loike
Multiplying Motherhood: Gestational Surrogate Motherhood and Jewish Law
Pamela Laufer-Ukeles
Acknowledgments
The 27th Annual Klutznick-Harris-Schwalb Symposium took place on October 26 and October 27, 2014, in Omaha, Nebraska. The title of the symposium, from which this volume also takes its name, is “ Mishpachah : The Jewish Family in Tradition and in Transition.”
Anyone who reads carefully and has a phenomenal memory (that sounds a lot like most of my colleagues!) will observe that the sponsors of the 2014 symposium expanded to include as a full partner the Natan and Hannah Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies. Founded in 2009 at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), the Schwalb Center and its faculty have had a notable presence at several of our symposia prior to 2014. The new title formalizes this close, productive relationship.
As in past years, the success of this symposium owed much to the unflagging support of two of my colleagues: Dr. Ronald Simkins, Director of the Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University, and Dr. Jean Cahan, Director of the Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL). To this number, I gratefully add Dr. Sidnie White Crawford of UNL and Drs. Moshe Gershovitz and Curtis Hutt of UNO.
Colleen Hastings, Administrative Assistant for the Klutznick Chair and the Kripke Center, continues her invaluable contributions at all stages in the planning and implementation of the symposium and in preparing this volume for publication. Equally efficient and dependable is Mary Sue Grossman, who is affiliated with the Center for Jewish Life, part of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. In this connection, I offer additional thanks to Kasey Davis, office assistant for the Schwalb Center. Among the innovations for this symposium was a Sunday morning session at UNO that would have been impossible without her active involvement.
With this volume, we are completing seven years in our ongoing relationship with the Purdue University Press. Its staff, under the previous director Charles Watkinson and his successor Peter Froehlich, makes us feel welcome in every possible way. We look forward to many more years of collaboration with the Press.
In addition to the Harris Center, the Kripke Center, the Schwalb Center, and the Jewish Federation of Omaha, this symposium is supported by the generosity of the following:
Creighton University Lectures, Films and Concerts
The Creighton College of Arts and Sciences
The Ike and Roz Friedman Foundation
The Riekes Family
The Center for Jewish Life
The Henry Monsky Lodge of B’nai B’rith
Gary and Karen Javitch
The Drs. Bernard H. and Bruce S. Bloom Memorial Endowment
And others
Leonard J. Greenspoon Omaha, Nebraska March 2016 ljgrn@creighton.edu
Editor’s Introduction
Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are quite similar: a Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives—sometimes also close friends. Although such definitions—or better, descriptions—are justifiably inclusive, even they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real flesh-and-blood Jewish families.
The studies collected in this volume, each by a different scholar working in a different context, call attention to features of the Jewish family from a wide variety of perspectives. They explore historical developments, contemporary trends, and future possibilities for Jewish families. In the process, they identify both common and distinctive features in the makeup of, and expectations for, this basic building block of Jewish society and religion.
Jewish families, as messy as they are essential, have been part of Jewish life from the biblical era through the rabbinic period, from the advent of modernity through the threshold of the future. We have not sought to cover every aspect of the Jewish family from all cultural, social, historical, and theological eras. No single volume, however lengthy and weighty, can do that.
Rather, we have given essentially free rein to these scholars and researchers to write about what they know best. Moreover, we have allowed, in fact encouraged, all authors to express themselves in the style in which they are most comfortable and with the emphases they select as most valuable.
We do not apologize that the resultant collection is not comprehensive. We would, however, be disappointed if readers come away with no new insights, questions, or layers of appreciation for an institution that exhibits and embodies so many elements of Judaism’s rich and complex experience.
The thirteen papers collected here, all originating as oral presentations at the 27th Annual Klutznick-Harris-Schwalb Symposium, divide chronologically into three groups: six deal primarily with the past, from the biblical period through the nineteenth century; five center on aspects of the Jewish family today; and two look to technological developments that are bound to become increasingly popular for Jews, as for many other groups, in the future. For the reader of this volume, we present each paper under one of these chronological rubrics.
Susan Marks, New College of Florida, is the author of the first essay, “Uncovering the Ongoing Parental Role in Education in the Rabbinic Period.” Through it, she examines the family’s ongoing impact on the study of the Torah in early rabbinic Judaism, particularly the father-son relationship. In doing so, she pushes back against scholarly discussions emphasizing the significance of the disciple-mentor relationship and the Talmudic replacement of the father with the sage, which thereby creates a new way to trace lin

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