Type | Book |
Title | American Jewish Year Book 2012 |
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2013 |
Publisher | Springer |
URL | http://livebettermagazine.com/eng/reports_studies/pdf/World_Jewish_Population_2010.pdf |
Abstract | “Everything must have a beginning; and the beginning is necessarily imperfect. Errors, no doubt, abound in this volume and omissions are numerous. It is natural that these findings will at once attract attention. Future ones can be made more accurate, and hence more serviceable, if readers will be good enough to send to the Editor notice of any omissions or errors which may come to their attention.”1 Thus wrote Cyrus Adler, the first editor of the American Jewish Year Book, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century in 1899, as the preface to this new undertaking. These words are just as appropriate at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century as we launch Current Jewish Population Reports as the successor to the population articles which appeared in the American Jewish Year Book for 108 years. The Mandell L. Berman Institute—North American Jewish Data Bank (NAJDB), the central repository of quantitative data on North American Jewry, is pleased to accept the responsibility of continuing to provide these vital statistics on the Jewish population of the United States along with those for world Jewry. Even as Adler noted “the spread of Jews all over our vast country,” we observe this phenomenon even more so today. Basic research and policy planning require that the population statistics which have been a standard feature of the Year Book since 1899 be continued. The NAJDB was established in 1986 through the generosity of Mandell L. (Bill) Berman. It was first administered by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York with the support of the Council of Jewish Federations and its successors, the United Jewish Communities and the Jewish Federations of North America. In addition, it was originally co-sponsored by Brandeis University and the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Later, the NAJDB moved from the City University of New York to Brandeis University and since 2004 is located at the University of Connecticut. While the divine promise that the Jewish people “will multiply . . . as the stars of heaven, and as the sand by the seashore” (Genesis 22.17) has not been actualized, we do not feel free to desist from the task of enumerating them. This is our legacy and this is our mandate. We would like to express our appreciation to Mandell L. (Bill) Berman for his strong support of this initiative. |
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