Stigma of Poverty: A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies

Politics & Social Sciences

WAXMAN, CHAIM I.

Social Sciences

Pergamon Pr

Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective (Suny Series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s)

A thorough analysis of the religious and ethnic identification of America's 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 complemented by qualitative examinations of their communal implications for Jewish continuity and the organized American Jewish community.

History

State Univ of New York Pr

A thorough analysis of the religious and ethnic identification of America's 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 complemented by qualitative examinations of their communal implications for Jewish continuity and the organized American Jewish community.

The Jewish attachment to Zion is many centuries old. While the modern Zionist movement was organized a little more than a century ago, the roots of the Zionist idea reach back close to 4,000 years ago, to the day that the biblical patriarch Abraham left his home in Ur of the Chaldees to settle in the Promised Land, where the Jewish state subsequently arose. From that day to the establishing of the state of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people have been in a constant struggle to either regain or maintain their homeland.Although 60 years have now passed since the establishment of Israel, many of the political and religious factions that made up the Zionist movement in the pre-state era remain active. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Zionism―through its chronology, maps, introductory essay, bibliography, and over two hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on crucial persons, organizations, and events―is a valuable contribution to the appreciation for both the diversity and consensus that characterize the Zionist experience.

Historical Dictionary of Zionism (Volume 83) (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series, 83)

Medoff, Rafael

World

Scarecrow Press

The Jewish attachment to Zion is many centuries old. While the modern Zionist movement was organized a little more than a century ago, the roots of the Zionist idea reach back close to 4,000 years ago, to the day that the biblical patriarch Abraham left his home in Ur of the Chaldees to settle in the Promised Land, where the Jewish state subsequently arose. From that day to the establishing of the state of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people have been in a constant struggle to either regain or maintain their homeland.Although 60 years have now passed since the establishment of Israel, many of the political and religious factions that made up the Zionist movement in the pre-state era remain active. The A to Z of Zionism? through its chronology, maps, introductory essay, bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on crucial persons, organizations, and events? is a valuable contribution to the appreciation for both the diversity and consensus that characterize the Zionist experience.

A to Z of Zionism (The A to Z Guide Series, 102) (Volume 102)

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement (Title Not in Series)

Chaim I. Waxman delivers a broad analysis of the phenomenon of American migration to Israel-aliya. Working within the context of the sociology of migration, Waxman provides primary research into a variety of dimensions of this movement and demonstrates the inadequacy of current migration theories to characterize aliya.

Wayne State University

The major focus is on the who, when, and where of American immigration to Israel, but it is the "why" of this aliya which constitutes the core of the book. Waxman analyzes the relationship between Zionism, aliya, and the Jewish experience. Chapters include "Zion in Jewish culture," a synopsis of Zionism through the years, and "American Jewry and the land of Israel in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," an account of proto-Zionist ideas and movements in early America.Chaim I. Waxman delivers a broad analysis of the phenomenon of American migration to Israel - aliya. Working within the context of the sociology of migration, Waxman provides primary research into a variety of dimensions of this movement and demonstrates the inadequacy of current migration theories to characterize aliya.

Middle East

Wayne State University Press

The book is a social history and sociology of American Jewry. It provides an up-to-date analysis of the contemporary American Jewish community, an analysis that includes educational, occupational, income, and political patterns of American Jews; the American Jewish family; anti-semitism; the relationship between American Jews and Israel; and the recent immigration of Soviet, Israeli, and Iranian Jews to the USA. 
In synthesizing a vast array of empirical studies, the author argues that while American Jews have been successful in their quest to integrate into the American social system, recent developments both in the American social and cultural system, at large, and within the Jewish community, in particular, indicate that this ethno-religious group is confronting the challenge to its continuity and its manifesting survivalist strengths which were not readily apparent in earlier generations. 
America's Jews in Transition should interest students in a wide range of fields, among them sociology, ethnic studies, Jewish studies, American studies, and religious studies. Because of its breadth and the freshness of its material, the book should also appeal to the general reader.

America's Jews in Transition

Americas

Temple Univ Pr

The End of Ideology Debate

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Stigma of Poverty: A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies

Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective (Suny Series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s)

Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective (Suny Series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s)

Historical Dictionary of Zionism (Volume 83) (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series, 83)

A to Z of Zionism (The A to Z Guide Series, 102) (Volume 102)

American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement (Title Not in Series)

American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement (Title Not in Series)

American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement (Title Not in Series)

America's Jews in Transition

The End of Ideology Debate