Overview
- Continuation of a reference work spanning three different centuries, from 1899 to the present
- Unique published sources for estimates of US, Canadian, and World Jewish population sources
- Access to major review articles written by prominent academicians and practitioners. For example, the Year Book is cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States and the World Almanac and the Book of Facts
Part of the book series: American Jewish Year Book (AJYB, volume 117)
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Keywords
- US Jewry
- US Jewish Population
- World Jewish Population
- Pew Research Center: US Jewish Religious Landscape
- Intermarriage
- Canadian Jewish Population
- US Jewish Communal Affairs in the Domestic Arena
- US Jewish Affairs in the International Arena
- Academic Jewish Sources
- Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries in North American Jewry
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Review Articles
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Jewish Lists
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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 close to 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: American Jewish Year Book 2017
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/10.1007/978-3-319-70663-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70662-7Published: 08 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88976-4Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70663-4Published: 31 January 2018
Series ISSN: 0065-8987
Series E-ISSN: 2213-9583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 846
Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Human Geography, Judaism