Jewish Baby Boomers
Subtitle: A Communal Perspective (Suny Series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780791447901
Subjects: Jewish studies; Social Science; Ethnic Studies - General; Sociology; United States; Social conditions; Minority Studies - Ethnic American; Baby boom generation; 1960-1980; 20th century; Jews
Description: "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.