American Jewish Year Book 2012Arnold Dashefsky, Ira Sheskin 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. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American Jewish American Jewish Committee American Jews anti-Semitism Area totals Part-year Avenue Award Beach Camp Canada Canadian Jewish Canadian Jews Census Center City College confirmation or latest congregations Conservative Conservative Judaism core Jewish population County Dashefsky day schools demographic Diaspora East ethnic Federation of Greater funds Geographic area Number groups Habonim Dror Hebrew Holocaust immigrants Institute intermarriage Israel Israeli Jerusalem Jewish community Jewish culture Jewish day Jewish education Jewish Federation Jewish history Jewish households Jewish identity Jewish organizations Jewish Studies Jewish Year Book Judaica latest study Geographic Law of Return leaders Montreal Museum NJPS non-Jewish North America Number of Jews Obama Orthodox Palestinian Part-year Jewish population political President programs provides rabbis Reform Judaism religion religious Road Sergio DellaPergola Sheskin social South Springer Science+Business Media Street study Geographic area Suite survey synagogue Torah Toronto Union University Washington West women Yiddish York Zionist