Abstract
This study tests the influence of demographic size on participation in Jewish communities in the United States. Participation is operationalized as enrollment in Jewish schools, giving to the Jewish federation, and nonintermarriage. Data from 184 communities are studied. It is hypothesized that: (1) There is an inverse relationship between the number of Jews and rates of participation. (2) There is an inverse relationship between increase in the number of Jews and participation. Relationships between types of participation are also studied. Both hypotheses are supported using multiple regression analysis. The relationships are strongest in cities with more than 20, 000 Jews; using change in number of Jews and number of Jews, 51 percent of the variance in rates of giving were explained. Regional effects were also discovered. For enrollment, region has a negative Northeastern effect; for federation giving, there is a positive Southern effect.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 287-297 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Sociology of Religion |
Volume | 53 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1992 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:An earlier version of this paper was presented at the workshop “The Future of Disaster Risk: Building Safer Cities”, hosted by the Disaster Management Facility of the World Bank, Washington, DC, USA, 4–6 December 2002. Part of this research has been carried out within the project DINAS-COAST (Dynamic and Interactive Assessment of National, Regional and Global Vulnerability of Coastal Zones to Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise), which is funded by the EU Research Directorate-General under project number EVK2-CT-2000-00084. The constructive comments from Kristie L. Ebi and three anonymous reviewers helped considerably in improving the manuscript.
Funding
*This research was supported by a grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. The author thanks Sergio DellaPergola, Director of the Project … Jewish Educational Statistics at the Institute of Contemporary Jeurry o…th e Hebrew University, and his staff for providing data and consultation.
Funders | Funder number |
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Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture |