JONATHAN BOYARIN is the Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Lower East Side Summer; The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe; and Powers of Diaspora: Two Essays on the Relevance of Jewish Culture.

• ForewordPreface: Doing the Jewish FamilyIntroduction1. Terms of Debate Family History and the History of FamiliesBearing the Children of IsraelNarrating the Family JourneyHusbands, Wives, and Rabbis in AntiquityIn the Ancient Neighborhood"Jewish Gender"?Beyond "Tradition" and "Modernity"An All-Too-Quick Trip to Israel2. State of the Question The Medieval Jewish Past TodayMediterranean WolrdsDreamtimes and LifetimesLeaving AshkenazBack to Europe?From Ethnic Dissolution to Ashkenaz RegainedJewish Genes 3. In a New Key   Off-Key Echoes of Old PrejudiceThe Return of "Race"?Families Undone and RedoneSuturing the Tears in Family MemoryCut to IdentityPossible FuturesKeeping Up with the GoldbergsWho Needs the Jewish Family? Notes BibliographyIndex

JONATHAN BOYARIN is the Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Lower East Side Summer; The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe; and Powers of Diaspora: Two Essays on the Relevance of Jewish Culture.

• ForewordPreface: Doing the Jewish FamilyIntroduction1. Terms of Debate Family History and the History of FamiliesBearing the Children of IsraelNarrating the Family JourneyHusbands, Wives, and Rabbis in AntiquityIn the Ancient Neighborhood"Jewish Gender"?Beyond "Tradition" and "Modernity"An All-Too-Quick Trip to Israel2. State of the Question The Medieval Jewish Past TodayMediterranean WolrdsDreamtimes and LifetimesLeaving AshkenazBack to Europe?From Ethnic Dissolution to Ashkenaz RegainedJewish Genes 3. In a New Key   Off-Key Echoes of Old PrejudiceThe Return of "Race"?Families Undone and RedoneSuturing the Tears in Family MemoryCut to IdentityPossible FuturesKeeping Up with the GoldbergsWho Needs the Jewish Family? Notes BibliographyIndex

JONATHAN BOYARIN is the Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Lower East Side Summer; The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe; and Powers of Diaspora: Two Essays on the Relevance of Jewish Culture.

• ForewordPreface: Doing the Jewish FamilyIntroduction1. Terms of Debate Family History and the History of FamiliesBearing the Children of IsraelNarrating the Family JourneyHusbands, Wives, and Rabbis in AntiquityIn the Ancient Neighborhood"Jewish Gender"?Beyond "Tradition" and "Modernity"An All-Too-Quick Trip to Israel2. State of the Question The Medieval Jewish Past TodayMediterranean WolrdsDreamtimes and LifetimesLeaving AshkenazBack to Europe?From Ethnic Dissolution to Ashkenaz RegainedJewish Genes 3. In a New Key   Off-Key Echoes of Old PrejudiceThe Return of "Race"?Families Undone and RedoneSuturing the Tears in Family MemoryCut to IdentityPossible FuturesKeeping Up with the GoldbergsWho Needs the Jewish Family? Notes BibliographyIndex