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Publication Date: January 1999
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Author(s): Sergio DellaPergola
Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions
Keywords: World Jews; Demography; Jewish identification
Type: Report
Abstract:
The main purpose of this chapter is to provide some historical-sociological perspective to the discussion of Jewish identity. Some of the major structural characteristics of world Jewry will be examined at a distance of ninety years. We draw some comparisons about the sociodemographic profile of world Jewry at the beginning an the close of the 20th century.