The Changing American Jewish Family Faces the 1990s


 

Publication Date: January 1994

Publisher: American Jewish Committee

Author(s): Sylvia Barack Fishman

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Jewish Continuity; Culture; Social Patterns; Demography

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author contends that the "typical" American Jewish family is now atypical in one way or another. After reviewing the historical patterns into which Jewish families have fit, she outlines educational, occupational, gender-based, and household-structural changes affecting the American Jewish family, including rates of divorce and intermarriage, based on the National Jewish Population Study.