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Cover; The Social Scientific Study of Jewry: Sources, Approaches, Debates; Copyright; STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY JEWRY; Preface; Contents; Symposium The Social Scientific Study of Jewry: Sources, Approaches, Debates; Jewish Demography: Fundamentals of the Research Field; The Discipline of Jewish Demography; Definitions; Data; Investigators; Interpretations; U.S. Jewry: A Shrinking Core?; Israeli Jewry: A Shrinking Majority?; Conclusion; Notes; Measuring the Size and Characteristics of American Jewry: A New Paradigm to Understand an Ancient People; Conceptual Considerations; A New Paradigm. Combining Data across SurveysUsing Estimates; Counting Children; Inclusion of Culturally/Ethnically Identified Jews; Jewish-specific Attitudes and Behavior; Understanding Jewish Life; Future Prospects; Notes; U.S. Jewish Population Studies: Opportunities and Challenges; Jewish Population Studies and Their Problems; Solutions for the Research of Rare Populations and American Jews; Survey Quality Best Practices; Modified Random-Digit-Dialing (RDD) Designs; Cell Phone Interviewing; Weighting; Discussion and Conclusion; Notes. Studies of Jewish Identity and Continuity: Competing, Complementary, and Comparative PerspectivesCompeting Perspectives; Survival; Authenticity; Boundaries; Complementary Levels of Focus; Individual Jewish Identity; Survival; Authenticity; Boundaries; Collective Jewish Identity; The Jewish Community; Klal Yisrael; Jews vis-à-vis Broader Society; The Relationship of Jewish Identity to Jewish Continuity; Survival; Authenticity; Boundaries; Conclusion; Notes; Defining and Measuring the Socioeconomic Status of Jews; Sources of Data. Socioeconomic Research on the Jewish Population of the United StatesDefining the American Jewish Population; U.S. Government Data Sources; The National Jewish Population Survey and Other Surveys of American Jews; Privately Sponsored Surveys of the General Population; Analyses of Published Evidence; Socioeconomic Research on the Jewish Population of Israel; Historical and Comparative Analyses; Conclusions; Notes; The Professional Dilemma of Jewish Social Scientists: The Case of the ASSJ; Notes; Contradictory Constructions of "Jewish" in Britain's Political and Legal Systems. Critical Approaches to IdentityCritiquing the "Jewish" Case; The Political Construction of "Jewish" in Britain: The National Census; The Legal Construction of "Jewish" in Britain: The JFS Case; Implications of Contradictory Constructions of "Jewish"; Conclusion; Notes; Sources for the Demographic Study of the Jews in the Former Soviet Union; Tsarist and Soviet Demographic Data; The Soviet Internal Passport and Counting of Jews; Changes in Vital and Migration Statistics in the Post-Soviet Era; Post-Soviet Censuses and the Jews; Conclusion; Notes. |
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