American Jewish Year Book 2020: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899 by Dashefsky, Arnold

American Jewish Year Book 2020: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030787080)

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American Jewish Year Book 2020: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899 by Dashefsky, Arnold

American Jewish Year Book 2020: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899

$249.99
American Jewish Year Book 2020: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899 by Dashefsky, Arnold

American Jewish Year Book 2020: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899

$249.99
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- Chapter 1. "Jewish Humor." Avinoam Patt and Jeffery Shoulson

- Chapter 2. "Jewish Languages." Sarah Benor

- Chapter 3. "Jewish Museums." Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

- Chapter 4. "American Jews and the International Arena (August 2019 - July 2020)." Mitchell Bard

- Chapter 5. "United States Jewish Population, 2020." Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky

- Chapter 6. "Canadian Jewish Population, 2020." Charles Shahar

- Chapter 7. "World Jewish Population, 2020." Sergio DellaPergola

- Chapter 8. "Local Jewish Organizations: Jewish Federations; Jewish Community Centers; Jewish Human Service Agencies (Jewish Family Services, Jewish Vocational Services, Jewish Free Loans); Directories of Synagogues, College Hillels, and Jewish Day Schools; Israeli Embassies and Consulates." Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz

- Chapter 9. "Jewish Museums and Holocaust Museums, Memorials, and Monuments." Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz

- Chapter 10. "Jewish Overnight Camps." Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz

- Chapter 11. "National Jewish Organizations." Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz

- Chapter 12. "Jewish Press: National Jewish Periodicals and Broadcast Media; Local Jewish Periodicals." Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz

- Chapter 13. "Academic Resources: Programs in Jewish Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Israel Studies, Professorships of Israel Studies, and Jewish Social Work; Major Books on the North American Jewish Communities; Academic Journals about the North American Jewish Communities; Scholarly Articles on the Study of the North American Jewish Communities; Websites and Organizations for Research on North American Jewish Communities; Major Judaic Research and Holocaust Research Libraries." Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, Amy Lawton, and Sarah Markowitz

- Chapter 14. "Transitions: Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries." Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, Ben Harris, Amy Lawton, and Roberta Pakowitz



Author: Arnold Dashefsky
ISBN-10: 3030787087
ISBN-13: 9783030787080
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 12/23/2022
Pages: 796
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.49lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.63d
By Arnold Dashefsky
By Arnold Dashefsky
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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 fourteen books, including Americans Abroad, Charitable Choices, Ethnic Identification Among American Jews, and 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 of geography at thesame institution. He has completed more than 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.

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