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The Economics of American Judaism

The Economics of American Judaism Carmel Ullman Chiswick Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 13, Number 4, Summer 1995, pp. 1-19 (Article) Published by Purdue University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.1995.0075 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/473064/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 18:23 GMT from JHU Libraries The Economics of American Judaism 1 by . . Carmel Ullman Chiswick Carmel U. Chiswick is Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago. Previous work includes several papers on the economics of religion as well as labor economics and economic demography. I. Introduction Despite many indications of increased vitality within the American Jewish Community, the attachment of many (if not most) of its members is so loose as to call into question their ability to transmit the fundamen­ tals of Judaism from one generation to the next. According to the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, (NJPS), out-marriage rates among Jewish-born Americans have been increasing steadily throughout the twentieth century and reached 55 percent for the 1985-90 marital cohort. Although most of these out-marrie'ds retain their Jewish identity, few are expected to raise children capable or even desirous of carrying on the Jewish tradition. Moreover, many of the inmarried Jews in this cohort are 'The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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Carmel Ullman Chiswick Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 13, Number 4, Summer 1995, pp. 1-19 (Article) Published by Purdue University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.1995.0075 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/473064/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 18:23 GMT from JHU Libraries The Economics of American Judaism 1 by . . Carmel Ullman Chiswick Carmel U. Chiswick is Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago. Previous work includes several papers on the economics of religion as well as labor economics and economic demography. I. Introduction Despite many indications of increased vitality within the American Jewish Community, the attachment of many (if not most) of its members is so loose as to call into question their ability to transmit the fundamen­ tals of Judaism from one generation to the next. According to the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, (NJPS), out-marriage rates among Jewish-born Americans have been increasing steadily throughout the twentieth century and reached 55 percent for the 1985-90 marital cohort. Although most of these out-marrie'ds retain their Jewish identity, few are expected to raise children capable or even desirous of carrying on the Jewish tradition. Moreover, many of the inmarried Jews in this cohort are 'The

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