The Social Scientific Study of Jewry

Continuing its distinguished tradition of focusing on central political, sociological, and cultural issues of Jewish life in the last century, this latest volume in the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series focuses on how Jewry has been studied in the social science disciplines. Its symposium consists of essays that discuss sources, approaches, and debates in the complementary fields of demography, sociology, economics, and geography. The social sciences are central for the understanding of contemporary Jewish life and have engendered much controversy over the past few decades. To a large extent, the multitude of approaches toward Jewish social science research reflects the nature of population studies in general, and that of religions and ethnic groups in particular. Yet the variation in methodology, definitions, and measures of demographic, socioeconomic, and cultural patterns is even more salient in the study of Jews. Different data sets have different definitions for what is "Jewish" or "who is a Jew." In addition, Jews as a group are characterized by high rates of migration, including repeated migration, which makes it difficult to track any given Jewish population. Finally, the question of identification is complicated by the fact that in most places, especially outside of Israel, it is not clear whether "being Jewish" is primarily a religious or an ethnic matter - or both, or neither. This volume also features an essay on American Jewry and North African Jewry; review essays on rebuilding after the Holocaust, Nazi war crimes trials, and Jewish historiography; and reviews of new titles in Jewish studies.

Auteur

Uzi Rebhun is Associate Professor and head of the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The author of The Wandering Jew in America and co-author of American Israelis: Migration, Transnationalism, and Diasporic Identity, he specializes in the demography of world Jewry, Jewish migration, Jewish identification, and the Jewish family.

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Symposium The Social Scientific Study of Jewry: Sources, Approaches, Debates Jewish Demography: Fundamentals of the Research Field, Sergio DellaPergola Measuring the Size and Characteristics of American Jewry: A New Paradigm to Understand an Ancient People, Leonard Saxe, Elizabeth Tighe, and Matthew Boxer U.S. Jewish Population Studies: Opportunities and Challenges, David Dutwin, Eran Ben Porath, and Ron Miller Studies of Jewish Identity and Continuity: Competing, Complementary, and Comparative Perspectives, Harriet Hartman Defining and Measuring the Socioeconomic Status of Jews, Esther Isabelle Wilder The Professional Dilemma of Jewish Social Scientists: The Case of the ASSJ, Chaim I. Waxman Contradictory Constructions of "Jewish" in Britain's Political and Legal Systems, David J. Graham Sources for the Demographic Study of the Jews in the Former Soviet Union, Mark Tolts Latin American Jewish Social Studies: The Evolution of a Cross-disciplinary Field, Judit Bokser Liwerant Jews in Israel: Effects of Categorization Practice on Research Findings and Research Frameworks, Aziza Khazzoom Jewish Majority and Jewish Minority in Israel: The Demographic Debate, Arnon Soffer Essay Avi Picard, Funding Aliyah: American Jewry and North African Jews, 1952-1956 Review Essays The Postwar Era: Repatriation, Resettlement, and Justice Gabriel Finder, Toward a Broader View of Jewish Rebuilding after the Holocaust Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, The Holocaust and Its Aftermath in the Yishuv and the State of Israel Laura Jockusch, Beyond Nuremberg: New Scholarship on Nazi War Crimes Trials in Germany Olga Litvak, The God of History Book Reviews Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide David Bankier and Dan Michman (eds.), Holocaust and Justice: Representation and Historiography of the Holocaust in Post-war Trials, Laura Jockusch Shlomo Bar-Gil and Ada Schein, Viyshavtem betah: nitzolei hashoah bahityashvut ha'ovedet (Dwell in safety: Holocaust survivors in the rural cooperative settlement), Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Yehuda Bauer, The Death of the Shtetl, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz John Cramer, Belsen Trial 1945: Der Lüneburger Prozess gegen Wachpersonal der Konzentrationslager Auschwitz und Bergen-Belsen, Laura Jockusch Margarete Myers Feinstein, Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany, 1945-1957, Gabriel N. Finder Jonathan C. Friedman (ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust, Dan Michman Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany, Gabriel N. Finder Patricia Heberer and Jürgen Matthäus (eds.), Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes, Laura Jockusch Ariel Hurwitz, Jews without Power: American Jewry during the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff Tomaz Jardim, The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany, Laura Jockusch Laura Jockusch, Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe, Gabriel N. Finder Otto Dov Kulka and Eberhard Jäckel (eds.), The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945, trans. William Templer, Marion Kaplan Tamar Lewinsky, Displaced Poets: Jiddische Schriftsteller im Nachkriegsdeutschland, 1945-1951, Gabriel N. Finder Anna Lipphardt, Vilne: Die Juden aus Vilnius nach dem Holocaust. Ein transnationale Beziehungsgeschichte, Tobias Brinkmann Dalia Ofer, Françoise S. Ouzan, and Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz (eds.), Holocaust Survivors: Resettlement, Memories, Identities, Gabriel N. Finder Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz (eds.), "We Are Here": New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Persons in Germany, Gabriel N. Finder Dina Porat, Israeli Society: The Holocaust and Its Survivors, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Kim C. Priemel and Alexa Stiller (eds.), Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals: Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography, Laura Jockusch Shimon Redlich, Life in Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950, Gabriel N. Finder Alan Rosen, The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Broder, Gabriel N. Finder Cultural Studies, Literature and Thought Leora Batnitzky, How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought, Hanoch Ben-Pazi David Biale, Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought, Robert M. Seltzer Leonid Livak, The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian Literature, Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan Shachar Pinsker, Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe, Jordan Finkin Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus, Jeffrey Shandler Art Spiegelman, MetaMaus, Jeffrey Shandler Michael Weingrad, American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States, Jordan Finkin History, Social Sciences, and Biography Rebecca T. Alpert, Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball, Ezra Mendelsohn Gur Alroey, Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early 20th Century, Frank Wolff Yaakov (Jacob) Barnai, Shmuel Ettinger: Historiyon, moreh veish tzibur (Shmuel Ettinger: Historian, teacher and public figure), Olga Litvak Albert I. Baumgarten, Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews, Olga Litvak Michael Brenner, Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History, trans. Steven Rendall, Olga Litvak David Cesarani, Tony Kushner, and Milton Shain (eds.), Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory: Zakor V'makor, Natasha Gordinsky Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan M. Meir, and Israel Bartal (eds.), Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History, Brian Horowitz Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore (eds.), Gender and Jewish History, Vicki Caron John Doyle Klier, Russians, Jews and the Pogroms of 1881-1882, Brian Horowitz Rebecca Kobrin, Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora, Gur Alroey Zionist, Israel, and the Middle East Shaul Kelner, Tours that Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and…