observance in the coming decades. -- economics ; religion ; Judaism ; economic history ; immigrant adjustment ; education … religious intermarriage and assimilation are reviewed. A concluding section forecasts the future of American Judaism and Jewish …

This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and … University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are … that discrimination against Jews in salaried professional occupations declined in the post-WWII period earlier in College …

following: between 1882-1947, in successive waves of immigration, some 543,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, joining the 24 … enriched by 879,486 immigrants, a growth rate of 19.3 percent. In 1991, 15,000 Jews were airlifted in one single day in … "Operation Solomon". What were the factors that drove this unprecedented migration of Jews from around the globe to Israel? Many …

The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in … the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until … (i.e., a decrease in the total number of Jews, and their concentration in urban areas), without having to rely either on …

) compared to other free men. Jews cannot be identified directly, but two versions of the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN) technique … children, and those living in rural areas (especially on farms). Other variables the same, US-born Jews do not differ … significantly in SEI from other free, native-born men, but foreign-born Jews have a significantly higher SEI than other immigrants …

the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and Christianity, where we are able to differentiate between individuals who …

guarantor of freedom of conscience. Judaism in the United States illustrates the outcome in a competitive religious environment …. Judaism in Israel illustrates the outcome in a monopoly experiencing potential competition, possibly leading to an oligopoly … structure. -- religion ; religious marketplace ; new paradigm ; monopoly ; competition ; Judaism …

similar to the patterns found among Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants appear to have made a very … ; language proficiency ; immigrants ; Jews ; Soviet Union …

This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and … non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The data are from the microdata files from the …, American Jews had a greater proportion in the high level occupations (managerial and professional) in 1990, and the difference …