| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth-Century America. By Anne C. Rose. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. xiv, 288 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00640-2.)

A footnote to this splendidly conceived and researched study of interfaith marriage in American history laments that historians know more about gender and religion than about religion and families. 1

Anne C. Rose's work helps right that imbalance. Twenty-six interfaith couples (Jewish-Protestant, Protestant-Catholic, Catholic-Jewish) who married between the War of 1812 and World War I stand at the study's center, their experiences conveyed by Rose's sensitive reading of family papers. Snaking through the multiple mini-biographies are intriguing sketches of popular cultural and literary discourses surrounding such marriages, and responses—drawn from institutional archives and religious publications—to interfaith marriage by Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish leaders. 2

Nineteenth-century American religion adjusted in the face of an increasingly open society. Marriage across faith traditions shifted as well. Linking those phenomena, Rose suggests that intermarriage itself helped produce the fluid relationship between the people and religious institutions that is a hallmark of the American landscape. . . .

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