Jewish Family in Global Perspective

Harriet Hartman is currently Professor Emeritus at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ (USA) and part-time faculty at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the co-author of 2 previous books on gender among American Jews, Gender and American Jews: Patterns in Work, Education and Family (Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman, UPNE/Brandeis University Press, 2009) and Gender Equality and American Jews (Moshe Hartman and Harriet Hartman, SUNY Press, 1996), has published two other edited books, in addition to her doctoral dissertation which was on a related topic, Women's Roles in Israeli Society, which analyzed the effect of immigrating to Israel on family life and gender roles.As the Marshall Sklare Award honoree (Association of the Social Scientific Study of Jewry) in 2019, her address was on "How Gender and Family Still Matter for Contemporary Jewry," later published in the journal Contemporary Jewry, June 2020. She has published many otherarticles and book chapters related to Jewish families, both American and Israeli, including a chapter on the Jewish Family in the 2016 American Jewish Year Book, which has been widely quoted. She has also presented at many professional conferences on these topics. She received the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award in 2019 at Rowan University and an award for Excellence in Support & Advocacy of First-Generation Students in 2022 at Rowan University.She is the current editor-in-chief of Springer's journal Contemporary Jewry, and prior to that was the editor of the Springer book series Studies of Jews in Society. She serves as an advisory board member for the American Jewish Year Book and is on the editorial board of the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. She also serves on the executive board of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, and previously served as president of the same organization.

“Hartman’s unifying framework and Jewish family expertise provide an invaluable interpretive lens to this global study of Jewish households with its many moving parts. In various countries and regions Jewish families take differing forms, and socioeconomic, political, and religious surroundings have diverse impacts on Jewish households. … Hartman concludes by placing the ball carefully in the court of contemporary Jewish professionals, showing that as Jewish households and their needs evolve, Jewish communities must create service initiatives … .” (Sylvia Barack Fishman, Contemporary Jewry, November 8, 2024)

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Harriet Hartman).- Chapter 2. Comparative Historical background (Sergio Della Pergola).- Chapter 3. Latin America (Judit Bokser Liwerant).- Chapter 4. The salutary effects of settings in the lucky country: Jewish families in Australia (Adina Bankier-Karp and David Graham).- Chapter 5. Notions of Agency: Conceptual Paradigms of Gender, Family, and Propriety among Adherents of an Ivorian Neo-Jewish Community (Nathan Paul Devir).- Chapter 6. The Transmutation of the Beta Israel Family in Ethiopia to the Ethiopian Jewish Family in Israel (Shalva Weil).- Chapter 7. Jewish families, Jews and Their Families, Jews in Families in Germany After 1945: Families, Memories, Boundaries, and Love (Dani Krantz).- Chapter 8. “Doing Judaism” for Family Unity – Conversionary in-marriages in the Jewish Community of Helsinki in the 1970s (Mercédesz Czimbalmos).- Chapter 9. Families and (Post) Modernism: Jewish Families in Israel (Sylvie Fogel-Bijaoui and Ruth Katz).- Chapter 10. Singlehood in Israel (Libby Bear).- Chapter 11. Family Welfare Effort, Total Fertility, and In Vitro Fertilization: Explaining the Israeli Anomaly (Reprint from Canadian Review of Sociology) (Shenhav-Goldberg, Rachel, Robert Brym, and Talia Lenton-Brym).- Chapter 12. Arab Middle East (*Tentative*) (Liat Alon).- Chapter 13. “Half-Breed” Jews in Post-War Soviet Union: Negotiating a Buffer-Zone Identity (Kushkova, Anna).- Chapter 14. The Bene Israel Indian Jewish Family in Transnational Context (Reprint from Journal of Comparative Family Studies) (Shalva Weil).- Chapter 15. Indian families in Canada (adapted with permission from Canadian Review of Sociology) (Kelly Train).- Chapter 16. Jewish Religious Intermarriage in Canada (Robert Brym and Rhonda Lenton).- Chapter 17. Comparative Baalot Teshuva (SA and Argentina) (Roberta Sands).- Chapter 18. Concluding Chapter (Harriet Hartman).