A New American Acculturation Study: Five Years Later

Publication Date: June 1996

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Patricia C. Becker; Judah Issacs

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Social Services; Immigration; Identity Formation

Type: Report

Coverage: Michigan

Abstract:

A survey of 175 New Americans resettled in Metropolitan Detroit showed that with community help New Americans have moved into economically productive lives with Jewish identities at least as strong as those of their American-born cohorts. The New Americans seem generally to be at about the same socioeconomic level of American Jewish families forty years ago. There is every reason to assume that as the years pass that the differences between the emigres and their American-bom cohorts will decrease.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.72 no.4, Summer 1996.