The Changing Spatial Distribution of American Jews

Publication Date: January 1998

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Author(s): Ira M. Sheskin

Research Area: Population and demographics

Keywords: American Jews; Immigration; Residential mobility

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

In: Harold Brodsky (ed.) Land and Community: Geography in Jewish Studies, 185-221. The purpose of these paper is to examine the extent to which the Jewish population has participated in the general movement of American to the Sunbelt. It also examines the implications of the changing geographic patterns upon several issues important to the American Jewish community: creating a sense of community in emerging Sunbelt Jewish communities, intermarriage, geographical dispersion of parents and grandparents, demographic imbalance, infrastructural needs, and electoral voting patterns.