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Understanding American Jewry / edited by Marshall Sklare ; Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University.

Contributor(s): Sklare, Marshall, 1921- | Brandeis University. Center for Modern Jewish Studies | Planning Conference for a Center for Modern Jewish Studies (1979 : Brandeis University)
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Books, [1982]Copyright date: ©1982Description: xiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0878554548 (alk. paper); 9780878554546 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Jews -- Research -- United States -- Congresses | Judaism -- Research -- United States -- Congresses | Brandeis University. Center for Modern Jewish Studies -- Congresses | United States -- Ethnic relations -- Research -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Demography of Jewish Americans : research findings, issues, and challenges / Calvin Goldscheider -- Research on American Jewish identity and identification : progress, pitfalls, and prospects / Harold S. Himmelfarb -- The religious life of American Jewry / Charles S. Liebman -- Toward an agenda for research in Jewish education / David A. Resnick -- Jews and other people : an agenda for research on families and family policies / Sheila B. Kamerman -- The family and the American Jewish community on the threshold of the 1980s : an inventory for research and planning / Chaim I. Waxman -- The Jewish community as a polity / Daniel J. Elazar -- Jews among others / Earl Raab -- Research needs of national Jewish organizations / Ira Silverman -- Research needs of local Jewish communities : current trends and new directions / Bruce A. Phillips -- On the preparation of a sociology of American Jewry / Marshall Sklare -- Jewish immigration to the United States from 1967 to the present : Israelis and others / Drora Kass and Seymour Martin Lipset.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West E184 .J5 U48 1982 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903167464

Papers delivered at the Planning Conference for a Center for Modern Jewish Studies which took place on the Brandeis campus on Oct. 21-24, 1979.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Demography of Jewish Americans : research findings, issues, and challenges / Calvin Goldscheider -- Research on American Jewish identity and identification : progress, pitfalls, and prospects / Harold S. Himmelfarb -- The religious life of American Jewry / Charles S. Liebman -- Toward an agenda for research in Jewish education / David A. Resnick -- Jews and other people : an agenda for research on families and family policies / Sheila B. Kamerman -- The family and the American Jewish community on the threshold of the 1980s : an inventory for research and planning / Chaim I. Waxman -- The Jewish community as a polity / Daniel J. Elazar -- Jews among others / Earl Raab -- Research needs of national Jewish organizations / Ira Silverman -- Research needs of local Jewish communities : current trends and new directions / Bruce A. Phillips -- On the preparation of a sociology of American Jewry / Marshall Sklare -- Jewish immigration to the United States from 1967 to the present : Israelis and others / Drora Kass and Seymour Martin Lipset.

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