{"id":187,"date":"2010-04-19T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2011-07-03T17:53:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T21:53:43","slug":"dating-marriage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/kennebec\/dating-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating and Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dating and Marriage Trends in Small-Town Jewish Communities<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>by Becky Muller &#8217;10 (January 2010)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Within in small Jewish communities, there are certain factors that influence dating and marriage.\u00a0 For example, residential and social proximity as well as religious and town politics all impact the choices that young men and women make when approaching the idea of dating and marriage.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">My basic conjecture is that dating and marriage trends are affected by social proximity, such as a person\u2019s involvement in clubs and organizations; and residential proximity, basically the idea that the smaller the community the more interaction it\u2019s residents have with one another.\u00a0 While this increased interaction may seem to produce more Jewish marriages, in fact, through my research I have found an undeniable rise in intermarriage, which can be reflected by the desire of young adults to find a marriage partner outside their regular social circle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Also contributing to the rise of intermarriage was the emphasis on Americanization in schools and clubs.\u00a0 Jewish social clubs during the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century stressed the adoption of more gentile principles in order to assimilate the Eastern European Jews more completely into American society.\u00a0 Through this emphasis on gentile principles and attempts to socialize and work with non-Jews, there is a rise in intermarriages.\u00a0 However it is also seen that intermarriages are much more acceptable in small Jewish communities where parents recognize the lack of marriageable partners for their children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">For more information on Jewish life in small town communities, see Lee Shai Weisbach\u2019s <em>Jewish Life in Small-Town America<\/em> and Peter Rose\u2019s <em>Strangers in their Midst.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Follow these links to learn more about&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/kennebec\/dating-marriage\/dating\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dating<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/kennebec\/dating-marriage\/intermarriage\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Intermarriage<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/kennebec\/dating-marriage\/resources\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Suggested resources for further research<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dating and Marriage Trends in Small-Town Jewish Communities by Becky Muller &#8217;10 (January 2010) Within in small Jewish communities, there are certain factors that influence dating and marriage.\u00a0 For example, residential and social proximity as well as religious and town politics all impact the choices that young men and women make when approaching the idea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1764,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions\/931"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}