Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish communities in the United States, Europe, and Israel. In an unconventional and provocative argument, Calvin Goldscheider departs from the limiting vision of the demographic projections that have shaped predictions about the health and future of Jewish communities and asserts that "the quality of Jewish life has become the key to the future of Jewish communities."
Through the lens of individual biographies, Goldscheider shows how context shapes...
Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish commu...
The conflict in cultures between the Arabs and the Israelis is brought to life in the first person accounts, letters, memoirs, and stories of ordinary people caught in the strife. Mired in the tangled past of the history of the region, and fired by the events of the past fifty years, the Arab-Israeli conflict must be viewed as both a long-standing and a recent development. Against the background of the changes that have characterized that society, Goldscheider, a leading authority on the social history of Israel, examines the perspectives of both sides in the conflict and the impact that...
The conflict in cultures between the Arabs and the Israelis is brought to life in the first person accounts, letters, memoirs, and stories of ordin...
Eva Bernhardt Calvin Goldscheider Frances Goldscheider
This work features an in-depth quantitative and qualitative set of studies on family issues in early adulthood among young adults born in Sweden of Swedish, Polish, and Turkish origins. The results are analyzed to explore the educational attainment of Swedish young adults of different origins, their transitions to marriage and cohabitation, inter-ethnic partnering, and the balance between work and family. The quantitative analyses are further enhanced by anthropologists' examinations of transitions to adulthood by young men and women. These analyses add depth to the survey findings, and are...
This work features an in-depth quantitative and qualitative set of studies on family issues in early adulthood among young adults born in Sweden of Sw...
This book examines the reasons why children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century. The authors make use of data from the National Survey of Families and Households to: construct patterns for when children leave home; and establish the most important criteria for leaving home amongst different groups in the United States - men, women, blacks, hispanics, whites, and different religious groups and social classes.
This book examines the reasons why children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century. Th...
This book tells the story of an extremely engaging Polish Jew, Shmuel Braw (1906-1992), who lived through the traumatic events that shaped Jewish experiences in the twentieth century. Shmuel bravely reflects upon his experiences as a Holocaust survivor and as a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in Siberia.
This book tells the story of an extremely engaging Polish Jew, Shmuel Braw (1906-1992), who lived through the traumatic events that shaped Jewish expe...
Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish communities in the United States, Europe, and Israel. In an unconventional and provocative argument, Calvin Goldscheider departs from the limiting vision of the demographic projections that have shaped predictions about the health and future of Jewish communities and asserts that "the quality of Jewish life has become the key to the future of Jewish communities."
Through the lens of individual biographies, Goldscheider shows how context shapes...
Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish commu...
