American Jewish Year Book 2024

Arnold Dashefsky  Arnold Dashefsky is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of CT. He served as the associate head of the UCONN Department of Sociology (1976-1981) and as the founding Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life (1979-2012). He also was the director of the North American Jewish Data Bank at UCONN (2004-2013), now the Berman Jewish Data Bank. Since 2012, he has served as the editor (with Ira Sheskin of the U of Miami) of the American Jewish Year Book. He has edited, co-edited, and co-authored 19 books and numerous articles focusing on Jewish identity, family, ethnicity, emigration, interfaith marriage, and philanthropy. He was a founding member, Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President, and President of the ASSJ and served as editor of its journal, Contemporary Jewry. He received the ASSJ Berman Service Award in 2012 and the 2020 ASSJ Marshall Sklare Award presented to a senior scholar for lifetime achievement in the study of contemporary Jewry.Ira M. Sheskin, Ph.D., is the Director of the Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami. He is Professor in the UM Department of Geography. He is a co-editor of the American Jewish Year Book and the author of more than 50 Jewish community studies. His publications include about 60 monographs and books, including: Survey Research for Geographers; How Jewish Communities Differ; the American Jewish Year Book 2012 -2021; Comparisons of Jewish Communities: A Compendium of Tables and Bar Charts, and Jewish Options. He is the recipient of the 2023 Marshall Sklare Award presented by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry to a senior scholar for lifetime achievement in the study of contemporary Jewry and is the current President.

• Part I. - Chapter 1. Dispossession Dilemmas: For Synagogues that are Downsizing, Merging, and Dissolving.- Chapter 2. Jewish Museums. Chapter 3. The Domestic Arena: Recalibrating American Jewish Journeys. Chapter 4. American Jews and the International Arena: The US, Israel, and the Middle East.- Chapter 5. Major Events in the North American Jewish Communities. Chapter 6. United States Jewish Population, 2024.- Chapter 7. Canadian Jewish Population, 2024. chapter 8. World Jewish Population, 2024. Part II.- Chapter 1. Local Jewish Organizations.- Chapter 2. Jewish Museums; Holocaust Museums, Memorials, and Monuments; and Jewish Biblical Gardens.- Chapter 3. Jewish Overnight Camps.- Chapter 4. National Jewish Organizations.- Chapter 5. Jewish Press.- Chapter 6. Jewish Academic Program.- Chapter 7. Jewish Academic Resources.- Chapter 8. Persons Honored by the Jewish and General Communities, 2023 to 2024.- Chapter 9. Obituaries, January 2024 to December 2024.