Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Contemporary Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
43,2 (2023) 263-297
Keywords:
Jews Population
;
Social surveys Evaluation
;
Jews Identity
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
;
Jews Social conditions 21st century
Abstract:
The Pew 2020 report focuses on the “net Jewish population,” consisting of Jews by religion (JBR) and Jews of no religion (JNR) and largely ignores the third category, “persons of Jewish background” (PJB’s) who fall outside what I call the “consensus Jewish population." An understanding of the US Jewish landscape is incomplete without taking PJBs into account. I divide PJBs into four subcategories and show that PJBs as a whole are at least as attached to Jewish identification as JNRs and this attachment varies by subcategory. This pattern undermines the longstanding straightline assimilation paradigm. Multiracial perspectives and mixed-race studies offer a better perspective for understanding the unexpectedly high Jewish attachments of PJBs. I end with recommendations for new qualitative research.
DOI:
10.1007/s12397-023-09494-x
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