,Conservative Jewry in the United States: Evolution Through Denominational Switching

Conservative Jewry in the United States: Evolution Through Denominational Switching


 

Publication Date: January 2001

Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Jewry

Author(s): Sidney Goldstein; Alice Goldstein

Research Area:

Keywords: American Jews; Demography; Religious denominations

Type: Report

Abstract:

In: Jewish Population Studies 29 (Papers in Jewish Demography, 1997), 295-316. In this paper we use the 1990 NJPS data first to describe the denominational composition of American Jews, and then to assess the switching that has occurred into and out of Conservative Jewry.