Editors:
- Provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities
- Presents continuation of a century-old reference work
- Provides access to major review articles written by prominent academicians and practitioners
- Cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States and the World Almanac and the Book of Facts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: American Jewish Year Book (AJYB, volume 114)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Forum on the Pew Survey, A Portrait of Jewish Americans
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Front Matter
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Forum on the Pew Survey, A Portrait of Jewish Americans
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Sociology and Judaic Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
Arnold Dashefsky
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Department of Geography, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA
Ira Sheskin
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: American Jewish Year Book 2014
Book Subtitle: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities
Editors: Arnold Dashefsky, Ira Sheskin
Series Title: American Jewish Year Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09623-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09622-3Published: 05 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36275-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09623-0Published: 19 November 2014
Series ISSN: 0065-8987
Series E-ISSN: 2213-9583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 923
Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Demography, Human Geography