On Behalf of the Epistemic Community: Contexts and Standards of American Jewishness: Response to the Sklare Lecture

Sergio DellaPergola*

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Abstract

This response to Sylvia Barack Fishman’s 2014 Sklare Award lecture acknowledges Fishman’s important contribution to social scientific research about the American Jewish community and discusses four main issues. The first is the need to maintain a clear boundary between popular evaluations based on hopes and fears and professional evaluations based on disciplinary tools. The second is the need to base the assessment about decline or revival on measurable and comparable markers. The third concerns the end of a dichotomy between Jewish and non-Jewish in the American context. The fourth is the need to assess American Jewry in comparison with other Jewish communities globally.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)129-135
Number of pages7
JournalContemporary Jewry
Volume35
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Jul 2015

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Keywords

  • 2013 Pew survey
  • American Jews
  • Decline and revival
  • Jewish community
  • Jewish family
  • Jewish population

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