Family and Identity: Marshall Sklare, the Social Scientific Study of America's Jews, and Jewish Communal Policy

The contents of Contemporary Jewry, the journal of Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ), are examined in an effort to evaluate arguments of overemphasis on the issues of intermarriage, fertility, and continuity. The findings do not indicate such an overemphasis. A socio-histor...

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Published in:Contemporary Jewry 2019-12, Vol.39 (3/4), p.379-406
Main Author: Waxman, Chaim I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Birth rate
Demography
Discipline
Families & family life
Fertility
Intermarriage
Jewish people
Jews
Religious Studies
Social identity
Social Sciences
Sociology of Religion
SPECIAL FORUM: REFLECTING ON THE SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF JEWRY—AND BEYOND
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Summary:The contents of Contemporary Jewry, the journal of Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ), are examined in an effort to evaluate arguments of overemphasis on the issues of intermarriage, fertility, and continuity. The findings do not indicate such an overemphasis. A socio-historical account of the field of the social scientific study of American Jewry, including an analysis of the perspectives of the new discipline's pioneer, Marshall Sklare, is then presented in an effort to explain how and why the issues of intermarriage and birth rates became central to the research of some of the major figures in ASSJ and the field in general.
ISSN:0147-1694
1876-5165
DOI:10.1007/s12397-019-09306-1