American Jewish Year Book 2019

American Jewish Year Book 2019
Author: Arnold Dashefsky
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 830
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783030403706

Part I of each volume will feature 5-7 major review chapters, including 2-3 long chapters reviewing topics of major concern to the American Jewish community written by top experts on each topic, review chapters on "National Affairs" and "Jewish Communal Affairs" and articles on the Jewish population of the United States and the World Jewish Population. Future major review chapters will include such topics as Jewish Education in America, American Jewish Philanthropy, Israel/Diaspora Relations, American Jewish Demography, American Jewish History, LGBT Issues in American Jewry, American Jews and National Elections, Orthodox Judaism in the US, Conservative Judaism in the US, Reform Judaism in the US, Jewish Involvement in the Labor Movement, Perspectives in American Jewish Sociology, Recent Trends in American Judaism, Impact of Feminism on American Jewish Life, American Jewish Museums, Anti-Semitism in America, and Inter-Religious Dialogue in America. Part II-V of each volume will continue the tradition of listing Jewish Federations, national Jewish organizations, Jewish periodicals, and obituaries. But to this list are added lists of Jewish Community Centers, Jewish Camps, Jewish Museums, Holocaust Museums, and Jewish honorees (both those honored through awards by Jewish organizations and by receiving honors, such as Presidential Medals of Freedom and Academy Awards, from the secular world). We expand the Year Book tradition of bringing academic research to the Jewish communal world by adding lists of academic journals, articles in academic journals on Jewish topics, Jewish websites, and books on American and Canadian Jews. Finally, we add a list of major events in the North American Jewish Community.

Perspectives In Jewish Population Research

Perspectives In Jewish Population Research
Author: Stephen M Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000316254

Addressing methodological and substantive research problems common to local Jewish population studies, the contributorsto this book present the most recent research findings on suchproblems as how to design studies that will make a contributionto social science knowledge as well as have a strong impacton the planning process; methods of sampling that will optimizethe trade-offs between costs and accuracy; how to develop acomparative framework so that results from individual communitiesmay be fruitfully understood in a larger context; and whichquestions should be asked in surveys and how. Detailed essaysdiscuss every step of the research process. The book includesa compendium of findings from several recent. population studiesas well as an annotated inventory of questionnaire items, allof which should prove useful to researchers and communitiesplanning to undertake Jewish population studies.

American Jewish Life, 1920-1990

American Jewish Life, 1920-1990
Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1136675000

This volume contains articles on Jewish life from 1920 to the present. Its entries include studies of the economy and migration in postwar America, the impact of Holocaust survivors on American Society and the reaction to gender stereotypes within American Culture.

Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Author: Peter Y. Medding
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 1989-07-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195363280

This volume critically examines the State of Israel forty years after its establishment. Topics include the integration of Middle Eastern Jews in Israeli society, the Arab minority in Israel, the dilemma of Haredi Jewry, Israeli democracy in transition, and the changing legitimations of the State of Israel. Other essays in the volume include debates on the significance of mixed marriages in North America, and the distinctive character of American Zionism. This series is published yearly by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Peter Y. Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, all distinguished professors of contemporary Jewish history at the University. The volumes include symposia, articles, book reviews, and lists of recent dissertations by major scholars of Jewish history from around the world.

A Breath of Life

A Breath of Life
Author: Sylvia Barack Fishman
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1995
Genre: Feminism
ISBN: 9780874517064

A vigorous portrayal of the effects of a distinct form of feminism on the spiritual and secular lives of Jewish women.

US Jews

US Jews
Author: Sergio DellaPergola
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 484
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 3031663128

The Social Scientific Study of Jewry

The Social Scientific Study of Jewry
Author: Uzi Rebhun
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199363498

This volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry directs its searchlight on the social scientific study of Jewry. Its symposium consists of 11 essays that discuss sources, approaches, and debates in different complementary fields of demography, sociology, economy, and geography. Taken as a group, the essays cover the major areas of Jewish life today in Israel, the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

Community and Polity

Community and Polity
Author: Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2001
Genre: Jews
ISBN: 1590450671

The Jewish Family and Jewish Continuity

The Jewish Family and Jewish Continuity
Author: Steven Bayme
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780881254952

The Jewish family in America is by and large a reflection of the general American family. With the rise of divorce and the increasing preference for alternative life styles, the traditional Jewish family, like its American counterpart, is under increasing challenge. When the effects of intermarriage and a lower-than-average birth rate are added in, the continuity of the Jewish family and Jewish life is under even greater threat. The essays in this volume, by distinguished scholars and social-policy theorists, assess the situation and prescribe policy measures to minimize the adverse affects of these trends when necessary or possible. Among the questions addressed are adoption, divorce, abortion, feminism, and pornography. It is the hope of the editors and contributors alike that their work will not only aid in preserving the American Jewish family, but will have wider resonance as well.

Jewish Life and American Culture

Jewish Life and American Culture
Author: Sylvia Barack Fishman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2000-05-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791445457

Jews in the United States are uniquely American in their connections to Jewish religion and ethnicity. Sylvia Barack Fishman in her groundbreaking book, Jewish Life and American Culture, shows that contemporary Jews have created a hybrid new form of Judaism, merging American values and behaviors with those from historical Jewish traditions. Fishman introduces a new concept called coalescence, an adaptation technique through which Jews merge American and Jewish elements. The author generates data from diverse sources in the social sciences and humanities, including the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey and other statistical studies, interviews and focus groups, popular and material culture, literature and film, to demonstrate the pervasiveness of coalescence.