Dimensions of Jewish Identity Among American Jews

Publication Date: January 2001

Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Jewry

Author(s): Harriet Hartman

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: American Jews; Congregations; Identity formation

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

In Jewish Population Studies 29 (Papers in Jewish Demography, 1997),239-260. In this paper we focus on the extent to which religiosity and ethnicity components make up Jewish identity, and how this Jewish identity varies among the major Jewish denominations, according to the New York Jewish Population Survey of 1991.