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PAGE 24 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE April 23, 1982
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Ideas considered typical of an
enlightened outlook in American
society, such as the view that a
wife’s satisfaction is an essential
component of a normal sex life in
marriage, is one of the traditional
attitudes toward sex, marriageand
the family, according to a Jewish
authority on the history of the
family
The expert is Dr. Jacob Katz,
professor emeritus of history and
sociology at the Hebrew University.
He made his comments at a
meeting sponsored by the William
Petschek National Jewish Eamily
Center of the American Jewish
Committee, held at the
committee’s headquarters in
Manhattan.
He said that Judaism has always
maintained that marriage, and not
asceticism, is the highest state in
which man can live. He added that
while Jewish tradition holds that
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sexual activity should be confined
to marriage and governed by rules,
that tradition also stresses that sex
is important and good and that
deliberate abstinence is not a
virtue.
“For traditional Jews, the main
criteria of a successful marriage
were the couple’s ability to have a
normal sex life and their ability to
live together without quarreling,”
Katz declared, adding that the
normal sex life meant satisfaction
for the wife, as well as for the
husband.
All of these beliefs stem from the
Jewish religion and centuries of
Jewish traditions, he declared,
adding that most of them continue
to have a role in Jewish thinking.
He said they are well-suited for
men and women trying to build
satisfying personal lives in the
modern secularly focused world.
Katz said two other “modern”
ideas that have been part of Jewish
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thought for generations are the
concept of the nuclear family and
the belief that young adults should
be independent
He said that, unlike many other
peoples, Jews have believed for
hundreds of years that the ideal
household consisted, not of an
extended family, but of one
married couple and their
unmarried children
Katz said Jews often amazed
non-Jewish neighbors “by their
willingness to help out a vast
network of needy uncles, cousins
and other relatives, but they did
not believe they should live with
them "
In the same way, he asserted, the
ancestors of modern Jews felt it
was important that newly wedded
couples set up their own
households as soon as that was
economically feasible. He said
Jewish families that could afford to
send their teen-age sons to out-of-
town schools did so—not only so
that the boys could develop
intellectually but also so that they
could learn to live independently
from their families.
Another speaker at the meeting.
Dr. David Biale, associate
professor of history and Judaic
studies at the State University of
New York at Binghamton,
asserted that two further ideas now
considered “modern” have had
a place in Jewish thinking for at
least two centuries. He said these
were a belief in sexual equality,
and a belief that romantic love
should be a part of marriage.
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