Jewish Population and Identity

Is a most helpful source for understanding Jewish life in the past and presentCovers both historical and contemporary demographic processes of world Jewry
Is written by leading scholars in Jewish social sciences

Is a most helpful source for understanding Jewish life in the past and present Covers both historical and contemporary demographic processes of world Jewry Is written by leading scholars in Jewish social sciences

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Sergio DellaPergola (Ph.D.) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Hebrew University's Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry. An internationally known specialist on the demography of world Jewry, he has published many books including Jewish Demographic Policies: Population Trends and Options (2011, Institute for Jewish People Policy) and over two hundred papers on historical demography, the family, international migration, Jewish identification, antisemitism, and projections in the Diaspora and in Israel. He was senior policy consultant to the President of Israel, the Israeli Government, the Jerusalem Municipality, and many major national and international organizations, and won the Marshall Sklare Award for distinguished achievement of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (1999), and the Michael Landau Prize for Demography and migration (2013).

Uzi Rebhun (Ph.D.)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor and former Chairman of the Hebrew University's Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and incumbent of the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations. His areas of interest are Jewish migration, Jewish identification, the Jewish family, Israel-Diaspora relations, and population projections. His works mainly focus on American Jews and the Israeli population. His most recent book is Jews and the American Religious Landscape (2016, Columbia University Press).

Inhalt

Part I. Jewish Family and Intermarriage.- Chapter 1. Britain and Australia, a World Apart, Together: An International Contextualisation of Jewish Intermarriage Using Census Data.- Chapter 2. Why Intermarried Couples Avoid Jewish Neighborhoods: The Case of Chica.- Part II. Jewish Identity: A View from the United States.- Chapter 3. The Structure of Jewish Identification in the United States: 2001 Revisited.- Chapter 4. The Jewish Secularization Thesis and the Revival of Jewish Secularism in America.- Chapter 5. The Demography of Secular Judaism.- Part III. Jewish Identity: A view from Israel.- Chapter 6. The Shifting Religious Identities of Israeli Jews.- Chapter 7. Patterns and Structure of Social Identification: Uruguayan Jewish Migrants to Israel and Other Countries, 1948-2010.- Chapter 8. The Jewish State and State Judaism: An Economic Perspective.- Part IV. Migration and Demographic Change: Latin America.- Chapter 9. Socio-demographic Profile of the Jewish Population of the Cityof Buenos Aires According to the 1895 National Census: New Findings.- Chapter 10. Marginal Immigrants: Jewish-Argentine Immigration to the State of Israel, 19481967.- Part V. Migration and Demographic Change: Eastern Europe.- Chapter 11. Immigration of Polish Jews to Israel in the 1930s.- Chapter 12. The Post-Soviet Jewish Demographic Dynamics: An Analysis of Recent Data.- Part VI. Historical Demography.- Chapter 13. Sources of the 18th Century General Jewish Censuses of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Their Applicability to Historical Demography Research.- Chapter 14. The First General Jewish Census in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Socio-economic Characteristics of the Karaite and Rabbanite Communities (1764-65).