Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective (SUNY series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s)

Waxman, Chaim I.

ISBN 10: 0791447901 / ISBN 13: 9780791447901

Published by SUNY Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective (SUNY series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s)
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791447901
• ISBN 13: 9780791447901
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

A thorough analysis of the religious and ethnic identification of America's Jewish baby boomers.

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.

About the Author

Chaim I. Waxman is Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, and author of America's Jews in Transition and American Aliya.