US Jews

This book offers an original and unprecedented in-depth analysis of the demography and identity American Jewry. It discusses crucially important issues for the understanding of the contemporary status, with an adequate historical background - which often lacks in much research work. The volume consists of both brand new chapters and partly relies on several scholarly works in the field that were published over the course of more than 40 years have been revised, updated, split and merged so to form newly conceived content.
This text provides a critical and unique approach to the major scholarly trends in American Jewish demography and sociology. It is divided into a number of parts, dealing with population trends, Jewish identification patterns, and yet more specific groups or sub-populations. Each section is preceded by a short introduction. A post-script provides a serious debate about the future of US Jewry and its position and role among World Jewry. This volume appeals to students and researchers working in Jewish Studies.

Sergio DellaPergola is Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Hebrew University's Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry. Born in Italy 1942, in Israel since 1966. M.A., Political Sciences, University of Pavía; Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1973. Specialist on the demography of world Jewry, issued numerous books and monographs and over 300 papers, including Israel and Palestine: The Power of Numbers (2008), Jewish Demographic Policies: Population Trends and Options (2011), Jewish Population and Identity: Concept and Reality (2018, with Uzi Rebhun), Diaspora vs. Homeland: Development, Unemployment and Ethnic Migration to Israel, 1991-2019 (2020), and since 1982 the annual chapter World Jewish Population in the American Jewish Year Book. Lectured at over 100 universities in five continents. Member of the advisory committee of the 2013 and 2020 Pew surveys on Jewish Americans and of the2012 and 2018 FRA
surveys on Perceptions of Discrimination and Antisemitism in European Union Member States. Advisor to major Israeli and international organizations. Winner of the Marshall Sklare Award for distinguished achievement by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (1999), and the Michael Landau Prize for Demography and Migration (2013). Member of Yad Vashem's committee for the Righteous among the Nations.