Gender and American Jews: Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life

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g e n d e r a n d a m e r i c a n j e w s hbi series on jewish women S H U L A M I T R E I N H A R Z , G E N E R A L E D I T O R S Y LV I A B A R A C K F I S H M A N , A S S O C I AT E E D I T O R The HBI Series on Jewish Women, created by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, publishes a wide range of books by and about Jewish women in diverse contexts and time periods. Of interest to scholars and the educated public, the HBI Series on Jewish Women fills major gaps in Jewish Studies and in Women and Gender Studies as well as their intersection. The HBI Series on Jewish Women is supported by a generous gift from Dr. Laura S. Schor. For the complete list of books that are available in this series, please see www.upne.com Gaby Brimmer and Elena Poniatowska, Gaby Brimmer Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman, Gender and American Jews: Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life Dvora E. Weisberg, Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism Ellen M. Umansky and Dianne Ashton, editors, Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality: A Sourcebook Carole S. Kessner, Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, and Galit Hasan-Rokem, editors, Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture Tova Hartman, Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation Anne Lapidus Lerner, Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry Margalit Shilo, Princess or Prisoner? Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840–1914 Marcia Falk, translator, The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible Sylvia Barack Fishman, Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage Avraham Grossman, Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe Iris Parush, Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider, editors, American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise Tamar Ross, Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism Farideh Goldin, Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman H A R R I E T H A R T M A N A N D M O S H E H A R T M A N GENDER AND AMERICAN JEWS Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life b r a n d e i s u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s Waltham,Massachusetts Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London Brandeis University Press Published by University Press of New England, One Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 www.upne.com© 2009 by Brandeis University Press Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Members of educational institutions and organizations wishing to photocopy any of the work for classroom use, or authors and publishers who would like to obtain permission for any of the material in the work, should contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. Hartman, Harriet. Gender and American Jews: patterns in work, education, and family in contemporary life / Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman. p. cm. — (HBI series on Jewish women) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978–1–58465–756–9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Jewish women—United States. 2 Jewish family—United States. 3. Sexual division of labor—United States. I. Hartman, Moshe, 1936– II. Title. hq1172.h36 2009 305.892'4073—dc22 2009015973 We dedicate this book to the loving memory of our parents, Lola and Laçi Hartman, Bernard and Florence Stillman, who first made us aware of both Jewishness and gender; and to our grandchildren...