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Randal Schnoor, "Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home" (Indiana UP, 2018)

New Books in Canadian Studies
New Books in Canadian Studies
Episode • Feb 20, 2020 • 59m

In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home (Indiana University Press, 2018), Alex Pomson and Randal Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity. Through interviewing a sample of families over a 10-year period, Pomson and Schnoor analyze a complex web of factors that guides the level of Jewish engagement throughout a family’s life course. This illuminating and nuanced study examines the complexities of Jewish identity and praxis, and more broadly, what it means to be a North American Jew in the twenty-first century.

Alex Pomson is a researcher and managing director of Rosov Consulting. Randal Schnoor is a sociologist who teaches Jewish Studies at the Koschitzky Center for Jewish Studies at York University in Toronto.

Lindsey Jackson is a PhD student at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

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