The ASSJ is pleased to announce that we are sponsoring five sessions at the 2022 World Congress of Jewish Studies, to be held in Jerusalem, August 8-12. More information about the Congress can be found here.
Research in Social Sciences on Contemporary Jewry: Current Paths, Disciplinary Approaches, New Challenges
Chair: Uzi Rebhun
Harriet Hartman, Levels of social science research and their contributions to homogeneity and diversity among Jews
Leonard Saxe, The Mosaic of US Jewry: Appreciating Diversity
Judit Bokser Liwerant, Social sciences and Contemporary Jewry: classifications and boundary building; naming the Other
Sergio DellaPergola, Jews of Color: A Critical Appraisal
Jewish Populations: New Boundaries and Polarization
Chair: Becka Alper
Ariela Keysar, More secular and more religious young American Jews
Bruce Phillips, Beyond Jews of no religion: Re-thinking and expanding Jewish status categories
Nadia Beider, The Collapse of the Center: Religious Polarization among South African Jews
Alan Cooperman, The Jewish middle is still strong
Bringing to the fore what is otherwise hidden: Comparative research perspectives in the Social Scientific Study of Jewry
Chair: Judit Bokser Liwerant
Adina Bankier-Karp, Exceptionalism debunked: What happens when the five largest English-speaking Jewish communities are compared
Robert Brym, Jewish Immigration in Argentina and Canada, 1870-2020
Daniel Staetsky, Jewish identity of European Jews in comparative perspective: an unprecedented insight into the Jewish lifestyles, priorities and self-understanding of Jews in Europe, Israel and the USA
Ilana Horwitz, Education—not age—explains American Jews’ shifting attitudes toward Israel
Migration and Israeli Diaspora in Transnational Times
Chair: Uzi Rebhun
Perla Kane, “Israeli Diaspora in Times of Transnational Living: Snapshots of an ongoing research project”
Dani Kranz, Self-organization, diaspora management and German/Israeli co-operations:
The benefits of Israeli migrants in Germany for Israel and Germany
Lilach Lev Ari, Ethnic Identity and Acculturation Patterns among Jewish Immigrants to France and Belgium: Israelis and North Africans Compared
Nir Cohen, response
Social Science Perspectives on American Jewish Life in the 21st Century
Chair: Harriert Hartman
Carmel Chiswick, Economics and American Judaism in the 21st Century
Chaim I. Waxman, American Jews and Israel in the 21st Century: Has the Relationship Changed?
Ira Sheskin, Geography and American Jews in the 21st Century
Becka Alper, Anti-Semitism in the United States: Perceptions, Experiences, and Impact among U.S. Jews