American Jewish Year Book 2020

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The American Jewish Year Book is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities. Part I includes chapters on Jewish humor, languages, museums, COVID-19, and LGBT involvement in the Jewish community. This section also analyzes the demography and geography of the US, Canada, and world Jewish populations. Part II provides lists of Jewish institutions, including federations, community centers, social service agencies, national organizations, and synagogues. The final chapters present national and local Jewish periodicals and broadcast media; academic resources, and research libraries; and finally lists of major events in the year, Jewish honorees, and obituaries. This text appeals to students and researchers working in social sciences and religious studies.

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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 fourteen books, including Americans Abroad, Charitable Choices, Ethnic Identification Among American Jews, and 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 of geography at thesame institution. He has completed more than 50 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.

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