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American Jewish Year Book 2017

The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities

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Editors:
  1. Arnold Dashefsky

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

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  2. Ira M. Sheskin

    1. Department of Geography, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA

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  • Continuation of a reference work spanning three different centuries, from 1899 to the present
  • Unique published sources for estimates of US, Canadian, and World Jewish population sources
  • Access to major review articles written by prominent academicians and practitioners. For example, the Year Book is cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States and the World Almanac and the Book of Facts

Part of the book series: American Jewish Year Book (AJYB, volume 117)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  3. Jewish Lists

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 379-379
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    2. Jewish Institutions

      • Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, Sarah Markowitz
      Pages 381-669

    3. Jewish Press

      • Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky
      Pages 671-696

    4. Academic Resources

      • Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, Pamela J. Weathers
      Pages 697-763

    5. Transitions: Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries

      • Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, Roberta Pakowitz, Pamela J. Weathers
      Pages 765-846

  4. Correction to: Intermarriage in the Twenty-First Century: New Perspectives

    • Bruce A. Phillips
    Pages C1-C1
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About this book

The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 117th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends. The first chapter of Part I is an examination of how American Jews fit into the US religious landscape, based on Pew Research Center studies. The second chapter examines intermarriage. Chapters on “The Domestic Arena”  and “The International Arena” analyze the year’s events as they affect American Jewish communal and political affairs. Three chapters analyze the demography and geography of the US, Canada, and world Jewish populations. Part II provides lists of Jewish institutions, including federations, community centers, social service agencies, national organizations, synagogues, Hillels, day schools, camps, museums, and Israeli consulates. The final chapters present national and local Jewish periodicals and broadcast media; academic resources, including Jewish Studies programs, books, journals, articles, websites, and research libraries; and lists of major events in the past year, Jewish honorees, and obituaries.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

    Arnold Dashefsky

  • Department of Geography, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA

    Ira M. 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 or editor of ten 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 current 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 close to 50 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 2017

  • Book Subtitle: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities

  • Editors: Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin

  • Series Title: American Jewish Year Book

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70663-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70662-7Published: 08 February 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88976-4Published: 04 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70663-4Published: 31 January 2018

  • Series ISSN: 0065-8987

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-9583

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 846

  • Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Religion, Human Geography, Judaism

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