Jewish Population and Identity Concept and Reality /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: DellaPergola, Sergio (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rebhun, Uzi (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Studies of Jews in Society, 1
• Θέματα: Religion and sociology.; Judaism.; Demography.; Social Aspects of Religion.; Sociology of Religion.

This book examines the fundamentals of Jewish demography and sociology around the world. It is not only concerned with documenting patterns of population change but also with an intriguing and ever-present issue like "Who is a Jew?" The latter transcends the limits of quantitative assessme...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I. Jewish Family and Intermarriage
• Chapter 1. Britain and Australia, a World Apart, Together: An International Contextualisation of Jewish Intermarriage Using Census Data
• Chapter 2. Why Intermarried Couples Avoid Jewish Neighborhoods: The Case of Chica
• Part II. Jewish Identity: A View from the United States
• Chapter 3. The Structure of Jewish Identification in the United States: 2001 Revisited
• Chapter 4. The Jewish Secularization Thesis and the Revival of Jewish Secularism in America
• Chapter 5. The Demography of Secular Judaism
• Part III. Jewish Identity: A view from Israel
• Chapter 6. The Shifting Religious Identities of Israeli Jews
• Chapter 7. Patterns and Structure of Social Identification: Uruguayan Jewish Migrants to Israel and Other Countries, 1948-2010
• Chapter 8. The Jewish State and State Judaism: An Economic Perspective
• Part IV. Migration and Demographic Change: Latin America
• Chapter 9. Socio-demographic Profile of the Jewish Population of the City of Buenos Aires According to the 1895 National Census: New Findings
• Chapter 10. "Marginal Immigrants": Jewish-Argentine Immigration to the State of Israel, 1948-1967
• Part V. Migration and Demographic Change: Eastern Europe
• Chapter 11. Immigration of Polish Jews to Israel in the 1930s
• Chapter 12. The Post-Soviet Jewish Demographic Dynamics: An Analysis of Recent Data
• Part VI. Historical Demography
• Chapter 13. Sources of the 18th Century General Jewish Censuses of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Their Applicability to Historical Demography Research
• Chapter 14. The First General Jewish Census in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Socio-economic Characteristics of the Karaite and Rabbanite Communities (1764-65).