The Demographic Consequences of U.S. Jewish Population Trends

Publication Date: January 1983

Publisher: American Jewish Committee

Author(s): Sergio DellaPergola; Uziel O. Schmelz

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Demography; Jewish Identification; Academic Research

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This study examines and supplies some of the relevant information about the complexity and fluidity of such phenomena as nuptiality, fertility, and mixed marriage, in the modern, largely secularized American Jewish community. Low fertility rates and assimilation result in a slightly negative balance of the internal population dynamics of U.S. Jewry, which is expected to become overtly negative in the foreseeable future.

In American Jewish Yearbook (1983).