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Louis Rosenberg's Canada's Jews: A Social and Economic Study of the Jews in Canada, published in 1939, was a pioneering if unfortunately neglected classic of Canadian ethnic demography and sociology. His work was a product of his personal biography, the current sociopolitical context, and the customs and norms of his discipline. What follows is a brief and far from exhaustive treatment of the man, the times and the work.

This paper is devoted to improving our understanding of the environment within which American Jews make their marital choice decisions, focussing on the relationship between Jewish outmarriage and marital stability. The first part develops those aspects of the economic theory of marriage that affect religious intermarriage. The second part places the Jewish experience in the context of American religious pluralism, summarizing the evidence for other American religions and considering ecumenism as a factor in Jewish outmarriage. The third part concludes with a summary of findings and their implications for the American Jewish community.

Examines the labor supply behavior of American Jewish women in the context of the family, which may have contributed substantially to the evolution of the advantageous economic position of American Jews. The author suggests that efforts to develop high quality child care and kindergarten through grade 12 education for Jewish children may be crucial for the continued achievement of American Jews.

Welcome to the participants at the demographic sessions of the 11th World Congress of Jewish Studies. Reflections on changes in the field of Jewish demography since the 1st World Congress of Jewish Studies in 1947.

This paper uses the 1990 National Jewish Population Study to examine the relation of Jewish education to the strength of Jewish identity of adult respondents. It then turns to the Jewish education of the children, describing their Jewish education and assessing the impact of their parents' Jewish education on the children.

This article presents updates, as of the end of 1991, on the Jewish population estimates for various countries around the world. The country figures for 1991 were updated from those for 1990 in accordance with the known or estimated changes in the interval events, identification changes, and migrations. During the year 1991, national censuses were carried out in Canada and Australia and Jewish sociodemographic surveys were completed in South Africa and in Mexico. Two important data collection projects have already yielded results on major Jewish populations: the official population census of the Soviet Union held in 1989, and the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) in the United States. The respective results basically confirm the estimates reported in previous American Jewish Year Book volumes and our interpretation of the trends now prevailing in the demography of world Jewry.

The purpose of this study is to characterize the Jewish involvement of baby boomers as a function of demographic and socio-economic factors, variations in Jewish affiliation, and types of Jewish education. Sections are devoted to the interrelations among the indicators of involvement, the causal influence of Jewish education on Jewish involvement, and to the characteristics of those who have recently increased their Jewish commitment.

This paper uses a unique data set on Jewish Americans to explore how their patterns of lifetime and recent migration have affected this population's redistribution across the United States. To the extent that the redistribution of Jewish Americans leads to a greater or lesser population concentration in particular locations, it may enhance or weaken the extent of their socioeconomic and demographic integration into the wider American population, the ability of individual members to maintain their Jewish identity, and, in turn, the ability of Jews to maintain their distinctiveness.

 This paper examines stratification as one of the structural conditions that affects the cohesion within Jewish communities in the United States. It focuses on occupation and education using evidence from 1910, 1970, and 1990 data sources (U.S. Censuses and sample surveys) on Jewish men and women and other white, non Hispanics. The long term changes in Jewish American stratification and its continuing distinctive communal pattern are described. The data provide a basis for assessing the consequences of the changing stratification profile for the continuing developments of the American Jewish community.