{"id":48812,"date":"2016-08-24T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48812"},"modified":"2017-01-27T16:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:03:54","slug":"the-jewasian-phenomenon-raising-jewish-asian-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48812","title":{"rendered":"The JewAsian Phenomenon: Raising Jewish-Asian Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishboston.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The JewAsian Phenomenon: Raising Jewish-Asian Families<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishboston.com\" target=\"_blank\">JewishBoston: The Vibe of the Tribe<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@JBoltonFasman\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Judy Bolton-Fasman<\/strong><\/a>, Culture Reporter<\/p>\n<p><em>A new book, as well as a conversation with its authors, sheds light on a growing segment of the Jewish population\u2014Jewish-Asian children who are raised as Jews.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitman.edu\/academics\/departments-and-programs\/sociology\/sociology-faculty\/helen-kim\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Kim<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitman.edu\/student-life\/student-engagement-center\/about\/contact\/meet-the-sec\/noah-leavitt\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Leavitt<\/a> are the authors of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43924\" target=\"_blank\">JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America\u2019s Newest Jews<\/a>,\u201d the first book-length study of Jewish-Asian couples and their children. While the two sociologists, who are married and professors at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitman.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whitman College<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walla_Walla,_Washington\" target=\"_blank\">Walla Walla, Wash.<\/a>, have a personal stake in the subject, they have also observed that as a Jewish-Asian couple they are far from alone in raising their children as Jews. In the book, the couple\u2019s research on Jewish-Asian families is encapsulated in interviews and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/scroll\/188938\/a-study-in-intermarriage\" target=\"_blank\">extensive studies<\/a> on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveandtradition.com\/founder-s-academic-bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keren McGinity<\/a>, director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hebrewcollege.edu\/interfaith-family\" target=\"_blank\">Interfaith Families Jewish Engagement<\/a> at Hebrew College, notes: \u201c\u2018JewAsian\u2019 is groundbreaking because it\u2019s the first book to complicate the intermarriage narrative by looking at it through the trifold lens of ethnicity, race and religion. Kim and Leavitt\u2019s work highlights important new ways of understanding Jewish-American, Asian-American and Jew-Asian identities, challenging dominant racial, ethnic and interfaith marriage discourses in the process. I am thrilled to have it on my syllabus for the course \u2018Jewish Intermarriage in the Modern American Context\u2019 at Hebrew College this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim and\u00a0Leavitt recently talked to JewishBoston about their new book and their family life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishboston.com\/the-jewasian-phenomenon-raising-jewish-asian-families\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JewAsian Phenomenon: Raising Jewish-Asian Families JewishBoston: The Vibe of the Tribe 2016-08-10 Judy Bolton-Fasman, Culture Reporter A new book, as well as a conversation with its authors, sheds light on a growing segment of the Jewish population\u2014Jewish-Asian children who are raised as Jews. Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt are the authors of \u201cJewAsian: Race, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,414,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[4046,21863,24847,24846,24845,24848,19096,21864],"class_list":["post-48812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-family","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-helen-kim","tag-helen-kiyong-kim","tag-jewishboston","tag-jewishboston-the-vibe-of-the-tribe","tag-judy-bolton-fasman","tag-keren-mcginity","tag-noah-leavitt","tag-noah-samuel-leavitt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48813,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48812\/revisions\/48813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}