Jewish Baby Boomers

"This book critically analyzes American Jewish baby boomers, focusing on the implications of their Jewish identity and identification for the collective American Jewish community. Utilizing data obtained from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, the book begins with a demographic portrait of American Jewish baby boomers. Realizing that America's Jews are both a religious and ethnic group, a comparison is made with Protestant and Catholic baby boomers, as well as other ethnic groups. The religious patterns of the Jewish baby boomers and their ethnic patterns are examined in-depth, and placed within the larger contexts of the modern or post-modern character of religion and ethnicity. The book's extensive presentation of detailed quantitative data is consistently complimented by qualitative examinations of their communal implications for Jewish continuity and the organized American Jewish community."--BOOK JACKET.

Year

2000

Language

English

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Editions

3

Pages

221

ISBN

9780791447895

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