READING LIST -- click on the book title to purchase the book.

RESOURCES FOR ADULT CHILDREN OF INTERFAITH MARRIAGES:


Black, Jewish and Interracial: It's Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin
by Katya Gibel Azoulay. Duke University, 1997.


An exploration of ethnic and cultural identity by the child of a Jewish mother and Jamaican father.
Divided Lives: The Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany,
by Cynthia A. Crane. St. Martin's Press, 2000.

The stories of ten women identified by Nazi Germany as so-called "mischling," or children of mixed Jewish-Christian marriages.
Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family,
by Stephen J. Dubner. Bard Books, 1999.

A moving memoir by a man whose parents converted from Judaism to Catholicism, and who himself decided to convert to Judaism. Expanded from the author's 1996 cover story in The New York Times Magazine.
Who Is a Jew? Conversations, Not Conclusions,
by Meryl Hyman. Jewish Lights, 1999.

A woman of patrilineal Jewish descent engages in far-reaching conversations on questions of Jewish identity with rabbis and Jewish leaders throughout the world.
Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past,
by Susan Jacoby. Scribner, 2000.

A journalist investigates her roots and identity as the progeny of German American Jews who had converted to Catholicism to conceal their Jewish identity.
Suddenly Jewish: Jews Raised As Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life),
by Barbara Kessel. Brandeis University, 2000.

Accounts of people in diverse circumstances who found out, later in life, that they were Jewish.
The Half-Jewish Book: A Celebration,
by Daniel M. Klein and Freke Vuijst. Villard Books, 2000.

A humorous, brash and breezy examination of what it means to be "half-Jewish," this book is heavy on pop cultural examples and rather light on serious examinations of identity.

Read a chapter at http://www.halfjewishbook.com/
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Between Two Worlds: Choices for Grown Children of Jewish-Christian Parents,
by Leslie Goodman-Malamuth and Robin Margolis. Pocket Books, Inc., 1992.

This book, currently out of print, is a frank assessment of the unique experiences, challenges and issues of identity faced by many children of interfaith parents.
Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth-Century America,
by Anne C. Rose. Harvard University, 2001.

A new, accessibly-written account of over two dozen intermarried couples, not just Jewish-Christian, throughout the 19th and early 20th-centuries.

Black, White and Jewish,
by Rebecca Walker. Riverhead Books, 2002.

A memoir by the daughter of writer Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal.