American Jewish Year Book 2013, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities American Jewish Year Book Series, Vol. 113

This book, in its 113^th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish community, examining Jewish education, New York Jewry, national and Jewish communal affairs, and the US and world Jewish population. It also acts as an important resource with its lists of Jewish Institutions, Jewish periodicals, and academic resources as well as Jewish honorees, obituaries, and major recent events. It should prove useful to social scientists and historians of the American Jewish community, Jewish communal workers, and the press, among others. 

For more than a century, the American Jewish Year Book has remained and continues to serve, even in the Internet age, as the leading reference work on contemporary Jewish life. This year?s volume, with its special reports on Jewish education and  the New York community and its updates on Jewish population statistics, Jewish institutions, and the major Jewish figures who passed in the year past, continues this splendid tradition.

Pamela S. Nadell, Chair, Department of History, American University and Co-editor, Making Women?s Histories: Beyond National Perspectives

 The 2013 volume of the American Jewish Year Book impressively demonstrates that Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin have restored this important resource in all its former glory.

Bruce A. Phillips, Professor of Sociology and Jewish Communal Service, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles

Having a current AmericanJewish Year Book on my shelf is like having a panel of experts on American Jewish life at the ready, prepared to give me thoughtful, accurate answers and observations on the key issues, trends and statistics that define our continental Jewish community today. Well into its second century, the American Jewish Year Book continues to be an essential resource for serious leaders, practitioners and students who seek to ground their work in solid research and up-to-date data.

Jacob Solomon, Greater Miami Jewish Federation President and CEO

Dr. Arnold Dashefsky served as the inaugural holder of the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, where he is now emeritus.  He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Temple University and a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Minnesota. He earned a Bachelor of Hebrew Literature at Gratz College, and studied at the Hebrew University and Hayim Greenberg College in Jerusalem. Prior to his position at the University of Connecticut, Professor Dashefsky taught at Temple University, Pennsylvania State University-Ogontz Campus, and the University of Minnesota. 

He recently completed editing (with I. Sheskin) Volume 109-112 of the American Jewish Year Book 2012 (Springer), which continues a publication of 108 volumes previously issued from 1899-2008; and co-authored Charitable Choices with B. Lazerwitz (Lexington Books), which focuses on the motivations for charitable giving. Other recent publications include Intermarriage and Jewish Journeys in the United States (coauthored with Z. Heller) and “Jewish Population in the United States, 2011” (with I. Sheskin), published in a new on-line series Current Jewish Population Reports, which he initiated and edited (with I. Sheskin) for the Berman Institute – North American Jewish Data Bank.  In addition to publishing many articles, he is the co-author or editor of several other books: Ethnic Identification Among American Jews (2nd edition published by UPA, 1993) is a book which focuses on Jewish continuity by examining the transmission of Jewish identity for two generations (originally published by Lexington Books, 1974, co-authored with H.M. Shapiro). Americans Abroad (co-authored with J. DeAmicis, B. Lazerwitz and E. Tabory) compares emigrants to Australia and Israel (originally published by Plenum Press, 1992, with a revised second edition and new introduction withKaren Woodrow-Lafiel