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This book, in its 114th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities, examining the recently completed Pew Report (A Portrait of Jewish American), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs and the US and world Jewish population. It also acts as an important resource with lists of Jewish Institutions, Jewish periodicals and academic resources as well as Jewish honorees, obituaries and major recent events. It should prove useful to social scientists and historians of the American Jewish community, Jewish communal workers and the press, among others.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Forum on Pew Survey, Alan Cooperman.- Chapter 2: Gender in American Jewish Life; Sylvia Barack Fishman.- Chapter 3: National Affairs; Ethan Felson.- Chapter 4: Jewish Communal Affairs; Larry Grossman.- Chapter 5: Jewish Population in the United States, 2014; Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky.- Chapter 6: Jewish Population of Canada, 2014; Randall Schnoor.- Chapter 7: Synagogues in the United States, 2014; Jonathan Ament.- Chapter 8: World Jewish Population, 2014; Sergio DellaPergola.- Chapter 9: Jewish Organizational Directory; Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky.- Chapter 10: Jewish Press; Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky.- Chapter 11: Academic Resources; Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin.- Chapter 12: Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries; Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky.
About the author
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.
Summary
This book, in its 114th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities, examining the recently completed Pew Report (A Portrait of Jewish American), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs and the US and world Jewish population. It also acts as an important resource with lists of Jewish Institutions, Jewish periodicals and academic resources as well as Jewish honorees, obituaries and major recent events. It should prove useful to social scientists and historians of the American Jewish community, Jewish communal workers and the press, among others.
