Overview
- Discusses the structure, religious, political, and social challenges confronting the Jewish community
- Monitors the dynamics of change in the Jewish communities of North America
- Is a unique and valuable resource for Jewish community professionals
- Is almanac, directory, encyclopedia; all combined in one volume
Part of the book series: American Jewish Year Book (AJYB, volume 115)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Review Articles
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Front Matter
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Jewish Lists
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- American Jewish Academic Resources
- American Jewish Campus Life
- American Jewish Communal Affairs
- American Jewish Institutions
- American Jewish National Affairs
- American Jewish Press
- Canadian Jewish Population
- Major Events In American Jewry
- Recent American Jewish Immigrants
- US Jewish Population
- World Jewish Population
About this book
This Year Book, now in its 115th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities and is the Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities. The first two chapters of Part I examine Jewish immigrant groups to the US and Jewish life on campus. Chapters on “National Affairs” and “Jewish Communal Affairs” analyze the year’s events. Three chapters analyze the demography and geography of the US, Canada, and world Jewish populations. Part II provides Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, social service agencies, national organizations, overnight camps, museums, and Israeli consulates. The final chapters present national and local Jewish periodicals and broadcast media; academic resources, including Jewish Studies Programs, books, articles websites, and research libraries; and lists of major events in the past year, Jewish honorees, and obituaries.
For those interested in the North American Jewish community—scholars, service providers, volunteers—this volume undoubtedly provides the single best source of information on the structure, dynamics, and ongoing religious, political, and social challenges confronting the community. It should be on the bookshelf of everyone interested in monitoring the dynamics of change in the Jewish communities of North America.
Sidney Goldstein, Founder and Director, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, and Alice Goldstein, Population Studies and Traini
ng Center, Brown UniversityThe American Jewish Year Book is a unique and valuable resource for Jewish community professionals. It is part almanac, directory, encyclopedia and all together a volume to have within easy reach. It is the best, concise diary of trends, events, and personalities of interest for the past year. We should all welcome the Year Book’s publication as a sign of vitality for the Jewish community.
Brenda Gevertz, Executive Director, JPRO Network, the Jewish Professional Resource Organization
Editors and Affiliations
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 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 2015
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/10.1007/978-3-319-24505-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24503-4Published: 12 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79637-6Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24505-8Published: 03 February 2016
Series ISSN: 0065-8987
Series E-ISSN: 2213-9583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 897
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Demography, Human Geography