Review of Journal Issue: ‘Judaism’ 34.1 (Winter 1985)

Originally published in the Jewish Law Annual 7 (1988), p. 274. Judaism, No. 133, Vol. 34.1, Winter, 1985, is devoted to a symposium on Patrilineal Descent. The historian, Dr. Shaya J.D. Cohen, traces the development from an original patrilineal descent to the matrilineal as it has existed for well-nigh two thousand years. Cohen himself refuses to…