At Brandeis University, Sylvia Barack Fishman is Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life/ Sociology of American Jews in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department and the Co-Director of the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women. She is editor of Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction, and author of A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community, which was named 1994 Honor Book by the National Jewish Book Council.

List of Tables and Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Analyzing the Evidence
One
Coalescing American and Jewish Values
Two
Tracing Educational and Occupational Patterns
Three
Learning about Jewish Education
Four
Educating for Jewish Living
Five
Forming Jewish Households and Families
Six
Observing Religious Environments in Jewish Homes
Seven
Profiling Jewish Organizational Connections
Eight
Negotiating Both Sides of the Hyphen
Appendix
Notes
Subject Index
Index of Names