American Jewish Year Book 2023: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899

by Arnold Dashefsky (Editor), Ira M. Sheskin (Editor)

Overview

Across three centuries, AJYB has provided insight into major trends. Part I of the current volume contains eight chapters: The first lead chapter includes an Audit of Antisemitic Incidents in 2023 produced by the ADL, and the second chapter examines Denominational Identity and Jewish Engagement. Subsequent chapters analyze recent domestic and international events as they affect the American Jewish community, major events in the past year, and the demography and geography of the US, Canada, and World Jewish populations. Part II contains nine chapters: lists of local Jewish organizations; Jewish museums, and Holocaust museums and monuments; overnight camps; national Jewish organizations; Jewish press; Jewish academic programs; Jewish academic resources; Jewish honorees; and Jewish obituaries. This volume employs an accessible style, making it of interest to public officials, Jewish professional and lay leaders, as well as the general public and academic researchers.

For more than a century, the American Jewish Year Book has served as an indispensable compendium of Jewish demographic trends, research and data. It is considered a must-read for data scientists, demographers, community leaders or anyone interested in the trends that make up the lifeblood of the Jewish experience in America. We are proud of our contributions to this essential resource.

Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League)

The American Jewish Year Book is a unique resource of tremendous value to anyone interested in global Jewish life. It is critical for people today, and it will be for those who come after us. Its lists capture not only critical information about key aspects of Jewish communal life, but provide the opportunity for reflection, comparison, and analysis with other religious and ethnic communities.

Riv-Ellen Prell, Professor Emerita, American Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031674778
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	02/26/2025
Series:	American Jewish Year Book , #123
Edition description:	2024
Pages:	915
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

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, editor, or co-editor of seventeen books, including Americans Abroad, Charitable Choices, Ethnic Identification Among American Jews, among 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 Center for Human Rights 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 and sustainable development at the sameinstitution. 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.

Table of Contents

Part I.- Chapter 1. "Jewish Museums.” Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett.- Chapter 2. “Sephardic Jews in the US.” Henry Green and Ira M. Sheskin.- Chapter 3. “Denominational Affiliations of US Jews: What It Means in 2023.” Leonard Saxe, Janet Krasner Aronson, and Matthew Brookner.- Chapter 4. “American Jews and the Domestic Arena (December 2022 – November 2023).” Sylvia Barack Fishman.- Chapter 5. American Jews and the International Arena (December 2022 – November 2023.” Mitchell Bard.- Chapter 6. “United States Jewish Population, 2023.” Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky.- Chapter 7. “Canadian Jewish Population, 2023.” Robert Brym.- Chapter 8. “World Jewish Population, 2023.” Sergio DellaPergola.- Part II.- Chapter 1. “Local Jewish Organizations.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 2. “Jewish Museums and Holocaust Museums, Memorials, and Monuments.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 3. “Jewish Overnight Camps.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 4. “National Jewish Organizations.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 5. “Jewish Press.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 6.” Academic Resources.” Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, Sarah Markowitz, and Kimberly Soby.- Chapter 7. “Transitions: Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, Sarah Markowitz, Arno Rosenfeld, and Kimberly Soby.