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The author wishes to thank the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for the fellowship grant which provided the resources needed for this data-gathering and analysis task. Mr. Matti Ronen proved to be most invaluable in doing a large variety of computer tasks on this project. In addition, the community data included in this paper were kindly provided by:For New York by: Professors Steven M. Cohen and Paul Ritterband;For Miami by: Mr. Lazer Cohen, of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation:For Los Angeles by: Dr. Bruce Phillips of the Hebrew Union College and Dr. Steven Huberman of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles;For Cleveland by: Mrs. Ann Schoor, Research Associate, Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland;For Chicago from: “A Compendium of Jewish Demographic Studies”, Dr. Gary Tobin and Mrs. Julie Lipsman;For Philadelphia by: Dr. Ernest Kahn, Associate Executive Director, Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia.
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Lazerwitz, B. Trends in national jewish identification indicators: 1971–1985. Cont Jewry 9, 87 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02976672
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02976672