How to Save American Jews

Charles S. Liebman

Steven M. Cohen

1996

Over the past ten years, the American Jewish community has undergone a radical inner shift in mood, from buoyant optimism to deep anxiety about its future. […]

The present anxiety can be dated to the findings gathered by the National Jewish Population Study (NJPS) of 1990. That study reported that among individuals born Jewish who married between…

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Charles S. Liebman

1934–2003

Born in New York and brought up in Israel, Charles S. Liebman was a scholar of Jewish sociology and political science at Bar Ilan University. His work addressed the culture of Judaism and the Jewish people in the United States and Israel, in books and compelling articles. He received the Israel Prize in 2003.

Creator Bio

Steven M. Cohen

b. 1950

Steven M. Cohen, a sociologist, is research professor of Jewish social policy at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, in New York. He has also taught at the Hebrew University. Cohen’s focus is on patterns of Jewish identity in the United States and abroad.

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