American Jewish Year Book 2015

Arnold Dashefsky, Ph.D. served as the inaugural holder of the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs where he is now emeritus. He is the co-author or editor of ten books, including Americans Abroad, Charitable Choices, Ethnic Identification Among American Jews, among others, as well as numerous scholarly articles. A former associate head of the sociology department, he was the founding director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, located in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, and is the director emeritus and current senior academic consultant of the Berman Jewish DataBank.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 and professor and chair of geography at the same institution. He has completed 43 major Jewish community studies for Jewish Federations throughout the country and was a member of the National Technical Advisory Committee of the Jewish Federations of North America from 1988 to 2003, which completed both the 1990 and 2000-01 National Jewish Population Surveys. His publications include books entitled Survey Research for Geographers, How Jewish Communities Differ, and Comparisons of Jewish Communities: A Compendium of Tables and Bar Charts.

• Chapter 1. Patterns of Adaptation Among Contemporary Jewish Immigrants to the US, Steven J. Gold  Chapter 2. Jewish Life on Campus: From Backwater to Battleground; Annette Koren; Leonard Saxe; Eric Fleisch Chapter 3. National Affairs: April 1, 2014–March 31, 2015; Ethan Felson and Mark Silk Chapter 4. Jewish Communal Affairs: April 1, 2014–March 31, 2015; Lawrence Grossman Chapter 5. Jewish Population in the United States, 2015; Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky Chapter 6. A Demographic Profile of the Jewish Population of Canada, 2015; Charles Shahar Chapter 7. World Jewish Population, 2015; Sergio DellaPergola Chapter 8. Jewish Institutions; Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky Chapter 9. Jewish Press; Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky Chapter 10. Academic Resources; Arnold Dashefsky; Ira Sheskin; Pamela Weathers Chapter 11. Transitions, Ira Sheskin; Arnold Dashefsky; Pamela Weathers.