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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484319503321

Titolo

American Jewish Year Book 2014 : The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities / / edited by Arnold Dashefsky, Ira Sheskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-09623-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (918 p.)

Collana

American Jewish Year Book, , 0065-8987 ; ; 114

Disciplina

973.049240025

Soggetti

Religion and sociology

Demography

Human geography

Sociology of Religion

Human Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Americans), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs, and the US, Canadian, and



world Jewish populations.  It also acts as an important resource with an atlas of Jewish communities, 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. If you have enough budget for one book depicting American Jewish Life, order the American Jewish Year Book.  This is the “go to” reference book for anyone who wishes to explore and understand more about life in the American Jewish community today. Rela Mintz Geffen, President Emerita, Baltimore Hebrew University; Professor Emerita of Sociology, Gratz College The American Jewish Year Book is an essential resource for anyone who works professionally or as a volunteer in the North American Jewish community today.  It provides important and accessible articles about the latest developments in the Jewish community.  The Year Book’s successful re-emergence under Dashefsky and Sheskin is great news all around! Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, Senior Director, Research and Analysis, The Jewish Federations of North America     The new American Jewish Year Book is both the “volume of record” for the American Jewish community and an essential resource for everyone engaged in Jewish communal life.  Its review articles are dependably authoritative, and its lists and bibliographies come in handy throughout the year.  Impossible to live without it! Jonathan D. Sarna, President, Association for Jewish Studies; Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University.