On Dec 11, 2009, at 1:40 AM, [email protected] wrote:
A fascinating story; I find it impressive that they quote actual research! > What were the consequences for Jews who embraced Christmas traditions? > Starting in the 1950s, sociologists conducted a number of studies. In his > 1958 study of second-generation immigrant Reform Jews on Chicago's South > Side, clinical psychologist and rabbi Milton Matz revealed that in the second > generation parents often agreed that a Jewish child might need a Christmas > tree to "hyphenate the contradiction between his Americanism and his Jewish > ethnicism." Matz's study also demonstrated that members of the third > generation were increasingly likely to recognize the inherent contradiction > in adopting the religious symbols of another group; they would eventually > give up the Christmas tree and find other ways of expressing their > acculturation into American society. > -enp
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