Abstract
This chapter considers the nature of the marital relationships entered into by the second generation and the ways in which Herminie and Fanny were to accommodate the business interests of the Pereire brothers in fashioning the requirements for suitable spouses. It takes note of the role they played in arranging suitable liaisons, including the negotiation of religious affiliation. The chapter also notes how the marriages that took place subtly altered the family situation in its religious and social outlook and in its dynamic. The Pereire family's relationship with Judaism was relatively fixed by the 1840s when the first of the second generation was ready to marry. They identified as Jewish, they had not abjured the religion of their birth, they still supported Jewish causes and institutions, they still mixed within Jewish circles, and, perhaps most importantly, they were seen by others outside the family as Jewish.
