The family remains central to the continuity of the contemporary American Jewish
community. But how the Jewish family is Jewish (and 'how Jewish'Jewish families are) …

American Jews have long been an anomaly for scholars concerned with understanding how
they fit into extant social scientific or historical categories. Sometimes they seem best …

Fertility is a key contributor to the demographic vitality of American Jewry. Recent studies
have found that the fertility rate of American Jews is below that of the general public and …

Three challenges to Jewish family formation—late marriage and non-marriage, unwanted
low fertility and infertility, and mixed marriage—are produced, in part, by the larger society's …

Recent scholarly articles and popular op-eds assert that male scholars employing
demography dominate Jewish family studies, and that scholarly analysis of marriage and …

In this chapter, we explore the nature of Jewish family life in Australia. Informed by
Bronfenbrenner's classic Ecological Systems Theory (1977), we examine settings in which …

Using data from the Pew 2020 Survey of Jewish Americans, this study argues that
“Connections,” that is, social groupings between Jews—family, friends, and community …

Scholars have long recognized that participation in religious congregations is strongly linked
to fertility outcomes, and this relationship has practical implications for religious, social and …

Marital patterns and family structures have undergone steady, but significant, change over
the past two decades. Among population groups whose identity passes through familial …

Abstract Sociological scholarship on American Jewish women often focuses on their fertility
intentions in context of American Jewish institutional concerns about demographic …