In the End is it Ideology?: Religio-cultural and Structural Factors in American Aliya

Publication Date: January 1995

Publisher: Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry

Author(s): Chaim I. Waxman

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: American Jews; Immigration

Type: Report

Coverage: United States Israel

Abstract:

In Contemporary Jewry 16, 50-67. This article reviews the major studies of American Jewish immigrants to Israel. It shown that the immigrants are increasingly comprised of Orthodox Jews, and argues that the increasing concentration of Orthodox among those immigrants is not solely the result of religion-ideological sources but, perhaps even more importantly, of sophisticated structural ones.