- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- American Woman, Italian Style
- Introduction: <i>Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore</i>
- Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women: Childhood, Work, and Marriage
- “why, It's Mother”: the Italian Mothers' Clubs of New York
- Connecting Spheres Women's Work and Women's Lives In Milwaukee's Italian Third Ward
- Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants
- Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns Italian-American Women In New York City
- Italian Americans, 1990–2000: A Demographic Analysis of National Data
- Italian-Jewish Intermarriage the Italian-American Spouse
- Gender Relations among Italian Americans
- Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- The Tradition of Invention: Reading History Through <i>La cucina casareccia napoletana</i>
- Italian-American Cookbooks From Oral to Print Culture
- Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- A Taste of Memories
- The Italian Immigrant Kitchen: A Journey Into Identity
- Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco
- The Novels of Mari Tomasi
- Breaking the Silence: An Interview With Tina De Rosa
- Lucy Mancinithe: New Woman
- Foodways in Italian-American Narrative
- In Our Ears, a Voice: The Persistence of the Trauma of Immigration in <i>Blue Italian</i> and <i>Umbertina</i>
- Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in Rome
- Mary Di Michele's Elegies
- Interview With Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert
- Simona Griffo, Detective Hero: A Series of “troublems”
- Writing Life, Writing History: Italian-American Women and the Memoir
- Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor
- Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva
- Nancy Savoca: An Appreciation
- Italian-American Women: a Review Essay
- Materials from Arno Press: The Italian-American Woman
- Italian Women in America: Sources For Study
- Contributors
- Index
Italian-Jewish Intermarriage the Italian-American Spouse
Italian-Jewish Intermarriage the Italian-American Spouse
- Chapter:
- (p.98) Italian-Jewish Intermarriage the Italian-American Spouse
- Source:
- American Woman, Italian Style
- Author(s):
Carol Bonomo Jennngs
Christine Palamidessi Moore
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter focuses on intermarriage patterns between Italian Americans and Jewish Americans, two groups exhibiting similar patterns. In the United States, intermarriage occurs between members of the dominant group and the minority group; or, there may be intermarriage between members of different minority groups. Most of the non-Italian spouses were either of Irish or German ancestry. In all likelihood Irish Americans supply the largest number of spouses. The report stated that over one-half of recent marriages that involved Jewish Americans were intermarriages. This rate of intermarriage is dramatic given the historical experiences of Jews. Intermarriages were banned and if such marriages occurred they often were treated as crimes. Intermarriage may be seen as a measure of acceptance, integration, and assimilation. For Italian-American parents and for Jewish-American parents as well, a strong resistance to intermarriage between their respective children may be seen as a rejection of American values and ideals.
Keywords: Jewish Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, intermarriage, American values, integration, assimilation, acceptance
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- American Woman, Italian Style
- Introduction: <i>Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore</i>
- Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women: Childhood, Work, and Marriage
- “why, It's Mother”: the Italian Mothers' Clubs of New York
- Connecting Spheres Women's Work and Women's Lives In Milwaukee's Italian Third Ward
- Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants
- Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns Italian-American Women In New York City
- Italian Americans, 1990–2000: A Demographic Analysis of National Data
- Italian-Jewish Intermarriage the Italian-American Spouse
- Gender Relations among Italian Americans
- Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- The Tradition of Invention: Reading History Through <i>La cucina casareccia napoletana</i>
- Italian-American Cookbooks From Oral to Print Culture
- Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- A Taste of Memories
- The Italian Immigrant Kitchen: A Journey Into Identity
- Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco
- The Novels of Mari Tomasi
- Breaking the Silence: An Interview With Tina De Rosa
- Lucy Mancinithe: New Woman
- Foodways in Italian-American Narrative
- In Our Ears, a Voice: The Persistence of the Trauma of Immigration in <i>Blue Italian</i> and <i>Umbertina</i>
- Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in Rome
- Mary Di Michele's Elegies
- Interview With Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert
- Simona Griffo, Detective Hero: A Series of “troublems”
- Writing Life, Writing History: Italian-American Women and the Memoir
- Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor
- Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva
- Nancy Savoca: An Appreciation
- Italian-American Women: a Review Essay
- Materials from Arno Press: The Italian-American Woman
- Italian Women in America: Sources For Study
- Contributors
- Index