Chapter 1. Forum on the Pew Survey, A Portrait of American Orthodox Jews.- Chapter 2. The Jewish Family (Harriet Hartman).- Chapter 3. The Domestic Arena: April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016 (Miriam Sanua Dalin).- Chapter 4. The International Arena: April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016 (Mitchell Bard).- Chapter 5. Jewish Population in the United States, 2016 (Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky).- Chapter 6. Jewish Population of Canada, 2016 (Charles Shahar).- Chapter 7. World Jewish Population, 2016 (Sergio DellaPergola).- Chapter 8. Jewish Institutions.- Chapter 9. Jewish Press.- Chapter 10. Academic Resources.- Chapter 11. Transitions.
Arnold Dashefsky, Ph.D. served as the inaugural holder
of the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and
professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs
where he is now emeritus. He is the co-author or editor of ten
books, including Americans Abroad, Charitable
Choices, Ethnic Identification Among American Jews, among
others, as well as numerous scholarly articles. A former associate
head of the sociology department, he was the founding director of
the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, located
in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of
Connecticut, and is the director emeritus and current senior
academic consultant of the Berman Jewish DataBank
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 43 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.
“The book editors should be commended for their outstanding diligence in tracking down such diverse information, and it surely merits its description as the comprehensive ‘annual record of American Jewish Civilization’. Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels.” (D. Altschiller, Choice, Vol. 55 (1), September, 2017)
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