1. Preface

   • Rela Mintz Geffen
   • Egon Mayer

   OriginalPaper 01 January 2000 Pages: vii - viii

2. Introduction to special section

   • Riv-Ellen Prell

   EditorialNotes 01 January 2000 Pages: 1 - 2

3. The utility of long interviews in the study of American Jews

   • Steven M. Cohen

   OriginalPaper 01 January 2000 Pages: 3 - 22

4. Ethnography and biography, or what happened when i asked people to tell me the story of their lives as Jews

   • Samuel C. Heilman

   OriginalPaper 01 January 2000 Pages: 23 - 32

5. Developmental judaism: Challenging the study of American Jewish Identity in The Social Sciences

   • Riv-Ellen Prell

   OriginalPaper 01 January 2000 Pages: 33 - 54

6. Ba’Alot teshuvah daughters and their mothers: a view from South Africa

   • Roberta G. Sands
   • Dorit Roer-Strier

   OriginalPaper 01 January 2000 Pages: 55 - 77

7. The cost of living jewishly and jewish continuity

   • Carmel U. Chiswick
   • Barry R. Chiswick

   OriginalPaper 01 January 2000 Pages: 78 - 90

8. Good or bad for the Jews? moving beyond the continuity debate

   • Shelly Tenenbaum

   OriginalPaper 01 January 2000 Pages: 91 - 97

9. Thoughts of a jewish demographer in the Year 2000

   • Sergio DellaPergola

   OriginalPaper 01 January 2000 Pages: 98 - 116

10. Revisiting demographic paradigms comments on sergio dellapergola “Thoughts of a Jewish Demographer in the Year 2000”

    • Calvin Goldscheider

    OriginalPaper 01 January 2000 Pages: 117 - 124

11. The way we were: reading the past in the present

    • Dianne Ashton
    • Jerry M. Kutnick
    • Victor Balaban

    BookReview 01 January 2000 Pages: 125 - 165

12. Books received

    Announcement 01 January 2000 Pages: 166 - 167