Abstract
The HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Series on Jewish Women is pleased to present this volume, edited and with an Introduction by the HBI co-director, Sylvia Barack Fishman. The Introduction and thirteen essays that comprise Love, Marriage and Jewish Families are fascinating and illustrate the continuous morphing of family forms among generations and contexts. Take for example the 1960s Broadway musical, “Fiddler on the Roof,” which reworks Sholom Aleichem’s depiction of the changing Jewish family in the Russian Pale of Settlement in the early twentieth century. Golde, the play’s middle-aged wife and mother, responds to her husband’s question, “Do you Love Me?”