How economics helped shape American Judaism

Arbeitspapier

This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and the new, it focuses on how this affected differences between European and American Jewish practices during the first half of the twentieth century. Equally dramatic upward economic mobility had implications for additional changes during the second half of the century. These were manifested by the development of distinctively American patterns of Jewish education. The relationship between Jewish education in the United States and the other major branches of World Jewry is discussed from an economic perspective. The economic underpinnings of religious intermarriage and assimilation are reviewed. A concluding section forecasts the future of American Judaism and Jewish observance in the coming decades.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5068

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Cultural Economics: Religion ; Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913- ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
• Subject: economics ; religion ; Judaism ; economic history ; immigrant adjustment ; education ; intermarriage ; Juden ; Migranten ; Soziale Integration ; Judentum ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Bildungsökonomik ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Ehe ; USA

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Chiswick, Carmel Ullman
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/44177
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET