Language:
English
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Omega; Journal of Death and Dying
Angaben zur Quelle:
65,3 (2012) 213-219
Keywords:
Jews Population
;
Jewish cemeteries
;
Orthodox Judaism
;
Conservative Judaism
;
Reform Judaism
Abstract:
Examines the relationship between affiliation with one of the three denominations within Judaism and longevity in the mid-19th-early 20th centuries. Deals with a burial society which served Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jews. The criterion for affiliation was burial in the cemetery maintained by these three denominations. Longevities of married congregants born 1850-1910 were compared. Orthodox Jews had the shortest life spans (77 years); Conservative and Reform Jews had very similar life spans (80.7 years). Differences in years of survival of husbands after death of a spouse did not differ significantly. Reform widows survived longest (16.5 years) after death of a spouse. Conservative and Reform widows did not differ significantly from one another.
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