Published since 1899, this is the authoritative reference on the demography and sociology of Jewish life in the U.S. and around the world. Covers population and character of Jewish communities, directories of Jewish organizations, publications and more.

The 2012 American Jewish Year Book , The Annual Record of American Jewish Civilization, contains major chapters on Jewish secularism (Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar), Canadian Jewry (Morton Weinfeld, David Koffman, and Randal Schnoor), national affairs (Ethan Felson), Jewish communal affairs (Lawrence Grossman), Jewish population in the United States (Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky), and World Jewish population (Sergio DellaPergola). These chapters provide insight into major trends in the North American and world Jewish community. The volume also acts as a resource for the American Jewish community and for academics studying that community by supplying obituaries and lists of Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, national Jewish organizations, Jewish overnight camps, Jewish museums, Holocaust museums, local and national Jewish periodicals, Jewish honorees, major recent events in the American Jewish community, and academic journals, articles, websites, and books. The volume should prove useful to social scientists and historians of the American Jewish community, Jewish communal workers, the press, and others interested in American and Canadian Jews.

Continuation of a century-old reference work Unique sources of US and World Jewish populations? Inlcudes review articles written by prominent academicians

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Arnold Dashefsky, Ph.D. served as the inaugural holder of the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, where he is now emeritus. He is the co-author, editor or co-editor of nine books, including Americans Abroad, Charitable Choices, Ethnic Identification Among American Jews, among others, as well as numerous scholarly articles. A former Associate Head of the Sociology Department, he was the founding Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, located in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, and is the Director Emeritus and Senior Academic Consultant of the Berman Jewish DataBank. Ira M. Sheskin, Ph.D. is the Director of the Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami and Professor and Chair of Geography at the same institution. He has completed 43 major Jewish community studies for Jewish Federations throughout the country and was a member of the National Technical Advisory Committee of the Jewish Federations of North America from 1988 to 2003 which completed both the 1990 and 2000-01 National Jewish Population Surveys. His publications include books entitled Survey Research for Geographers, How Jewish Communities Differ and Comparisons of Jewish Communities: A Compendium of Tables and Bar Charts.

Inhalt
Preface.- Acknowledgments.- List of Contributors.- PART I. REVIEW ARTICLES.- American Jewish Secularism: Jewish Life Beyond the Synagogues, B. Kosmin and A. Keysar.- Overview of Canadian Jewry, R. Schnoor, M. Weinfeld, and D.S. Koffman.- National Affairs, E. Felson.- Jewish Communal Affairs, L. Grossman.- Jewish Population in the United States, 2012, I.M. Sheskin, A. Dashefsky.- World Jewish Population, S. DellaPergola.- PART II. JEWISH INSTITUTIONS.- Jewish Federations.- Jewish Community Centers.- National Jewish Organizations.- Synagogues, College Hillels, and Jewish Day Schools.- Jewish Overnight Camps.- Jewish Museums.- Holocaust Museums, Memorials, and Monuments.- PART III. JEWISH PRESS.- National Jewish Periodicals Local Jewish Periodicals.- PART VI. ACADEMIC RESOURCES.- Jewish Studies Programs.- Major Books on the North American Jewish Community.- Academic Journals Covering the North American Jewish Community.- Scholarly Articles on the Study of the North American Jewish Community.- Websites for North American Jewish Community Research.- PART V. MAJOR EVENTS, HONOREES, AND OBITUARIES.- Major Events in the North American Jewish Community, October 2010 to June 2012.- Persons Honored by the Jewish and General Community, 2011 to 2012 Obituaries, 2011 to June 2012.- Index.