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Intermarriage in the United States
Publication Date: January 1970
Publisher(s): American Jewish Committee
Author(s): Arnold Schwartz
Series: American Jewish Year Book vol.71 (1970), pp.101-121
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Population and demographics (Ethnic and racial groups)
Keywords: Jewish Identification; Jewish Continuity; Jewish Values; Demography
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author reviews recent studies bearing on intermarriage rates and their demographic consequences in an attempt to evaluate the grounds for concerns that intermarriage will lead to an imminent dissolution of the American Jewish community. He argues that intermarriage rates are not yet high enough to warrant fear.