American Jewish Demography: Inconsistencies that Challenge
Publication Date: October 2008
Publisher(s): Institute of Contemporary Jewry
Author(s): Sidney Goldstein
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Keywords: American Jews
Coverage: United States
In Jewish Population Studies 19 (Papers in Jewish Demography, 1985), 23-42. This paper raises the major problems and needs of Jewish demographic studies in the United States. In particular by calling attention to some of the inconsistencies that characterize recent research and sometimes the conclusions of the same researcher at different times. The paper hopes to stimulate the efforts to achieve higher quality and greater standardization in community studies.