Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America

Selected Index

293 Abie’s Irish Rose, 90 Advice about intermarriage: Black, Algernon D., “If I Marry Outside My Religion,” 79; book titles for comparative analysis, 218; how to avoid, 79; How to Stop an Intermarriage : A Practical Guide for Parents, 126; Ladies Home Journal, 79; Mack, Rebecca E., on “an everlasting life destroyer,” 79; Pike, James, suggests select one religious affiliation, 249n115; religious advocates warned against, 77; Woman’s Home Companion , “My Mixed Marriage Was Happy,” 81 Affiliation: proportion of adult Americans , 155; religious, 18; synagogue membership rises once Jews have children, 280n114; U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, 270n1, 271n2 Alba, Richard: Jewish-Jewish marriages “well below the in-marriage tendencies of eastern and central European groups” 156–157; and Nee, Victor, on definition of assimilation , 4 American Jewish Chronicle, 20 American Jewish Community (AJC): and comparison between intermarriage and the Holocaust, 188; The Intermarriage Crisis: Jewish Community Responses and Perspectives, 176 American Jewish Identification Survey (AJIS): nearly half adult U.S. Jews regarded themselves as secular to some degree in outlook, 168 American Jewish Yearbook (AJYB): in 1963, 13; in 1970, 14 American Religious Identity Survey (ARIS): increased religiosity of intermarried Jewish women over time reflected the national trend, 178– 179; self described religious identification and reported household membership, 270n1; women more likely than men to describe their outlook as “religious,” 170–171 Antin, Mary, 18–20, 22, 25–35, 58–60, 134, 199, 203; analysis of her age, 232n35, 235n96; descendants Ross, Anne, and Ross-Neuwirth, Eliana, Julia, and Jeanne, 214–215; Grabau, Amadeus W., 26; Hale, Edward W., 26; Lazarus, Josephine and Emma, 28; Roosevelt, Theodore , letter to, 60; Zangwill, Israel, letter to, 27 Antisemitism: American, decline of, and growing rate of Jewish intermarriage , 114; Daughters of Kings, 166; decline after World War II, archbishop of Boston Richard Cushing , and “psychological insecurity,” 83; encouraged assimilation, 67; Selected Index 294 Selected Index Antisemitism (continued): Ianiello, Lynne, “Life on the Fence: The Jewish Partner in a Mixed Marriage Gets a Clear—and Painful—View of Prejudice,” 88; intensified, and Jews fearful of attack, as motivation for intermarriage, 65, 83; intermarriage as cure for, 86; internalized memories of, 166; Jewish self-hatred, 84–85; lingering concerns, 148; the nature and threat of, women want husbands to understand, 144; New York bohemians, 39–40; a past riddled with, and forging a new future distinct from, 102; reduced by intermarriage, 85; rising in the 1930s, 82; spelling of, 228n62; “Zionism is racism,” 136. See also Cold War; McBride, Ruth Antler, Joyce, The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century , 134 Assimilation: assimilative process, 3; debate between assimilationists and transformationists, 2–4, 222n8; definition of, 4; how occurred, 2; absolute, intermarriage for Jewish women not part of a linear continuum toward, 198; generations becoming assimilated, 178; “It is not intermarriage which leads to assimilation,” 126–127; Reform Judaism blamed, 29, 188; Rosenthal, Erich, on Jewish community moving from acculturation to assimilation and amalgamation, 123; total, 4; use of words “amalgamation” and “acculturation,” 4; women who called themselves Jews after intermarrying Americanized rather than assimilated, 106. See also Ethnicity; Sarna, Jonathan D. Atlantic Monthly: “I Married a Gentile ,” 81; “I Married a Jew,” 80; Jews had “the same virtues and vices as other people,” 81 Attitudes about intermarriage: acceptability in American society, 64; Americans most opposed to interracial unions, parental disapproval of cohabitation, 116; exogamous Jew as dead, 65; “From outrage to outreach” shift, 203; interfaith more precarious than interracial, 78; Gentile attitudes reflected increasing acceptance of both Jews and intermarriage , 114–115; Jewish family members and parental policy of “preferred endogamy,” 150–151; Jewish parents shift from forceful objection to accommodation, 111; Jewish rebels and the baby boom generation, 138–139; “lost to Judaism !” 89; parental objection among Jews remained strong, 89–95; “single most pressing problem confronting the organized Jewish community ,” 111; study sponsored by AJC documented parents’ attitudes becoming less contentious, 152; waning of public opposition, 89; women’s attitudes toward work and family show major shift, 134 Baby Boomers, 159 Barron, Milton, 12 Bayme, Steven: “as American as apple pie,” 198; “Intermarriage prevention ought not to be sacrificed for the sake of outreach,” 205–206; “radical deconstruction,” 211. See also In-reach Beck, Pearl: Ninety Young Adult Children of the Intermarried, 220t6 Selected Index 295 Berman, Louis A.: Jews and Intermarriage : A Study in Personality and Culture, 125; psychology of gender role differentiation, 12–13 Brown University: Brown...