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Publication Date: January 1994
Publisher: American Jewish Committee
Author(s): Sylvia Barack Fishman
Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics
Keywords: Jewish Continuity; Culture; Social Patterns; Demography
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author contends that the "typical" American Jewish family is now atypical in one way or another. After reviewing the historical patterns into which Jewish families have fit, she outlines educational, occupational, gender-based, and household-structural changes affecting the American Jewish family, including rates of divorce and intermarriage, based on the National Jewish Population Study.