Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal PerspectiveSUNY Press, 2001 M01 1 - 221 pages This book critically analyzes American Jewish baby boomers, focusing on the implications of their Jewish identity and identification for the collective American Jewish community. Utilizing data obtained from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, the book begins with a demographic portrait of American Jewish baby boomers. Realizing that America s Jews are both a religious and ethnic group, a comparison is made with Protestant and Catholic baby boomers, as well as other ethnic groups. The religious patterns of the Jewish baby boomers and their ethnic patterns are examined in-depth, and placed within the larger contexts of the modern or post-modern character of religion and ethnicity. The book s extensive presentation of detailed quantitative data is consistently complemented by qualitative examinations of their communal implications for Jewish continuity and the organized American Jewish community. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Demographic Characteristics of American Jewish Baby Boomers | 21 |
Family Patterns of American Jewish Baby Boomers | 41 |
The Jewishness of Jewish Baby Boomers Religion | 61 |
The Jewishness of Jewish Baby Boomers Ethnicity | 79 |
Religion in American Society | 117 |
Ethnicity in America | 143 |
Conclusion | 155 |
Methodology of CJF 1990 National Jewish Population Survey | 163 |
Representative Frequencies | 187 |
Representative Probability Levels | 189 |
Notes | 191 |
References | 195 |
Name Index | 211 |
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