Conference Information
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN JEWRY
October 23-24, 2011 Brandeis University

Plenary 4 Background Papers:
Numbering the Jews
(Rapaporte Treasure Hall)
Moderator: Sylvia Barack Fishman (Brandeis University)
Speakers:
Sergio DellaPergola (The Hebrew University)
How Many Are We Today? The Demographic Perspective
- Jewish Demography and Peoplehood
- Was It the Demography?: A Reassessment of U.S. Jewish Population Estimates, 1945-2001
- World Jewish Population, 2010
- How Many Are We Today? The Demographic Perspective (PowerPoint presentation)
Arnold Dashefsky (University of Connecticut, North American Jewish Databank)
Numbering American Jews: A Composite Estimate (with Ira Sheskin)
- US Jewish Community Population Estimation Procedure: Guide for Interviewers Seeking Community Estimates
- Jewish Population in the United States, 2010
Leonard Saxe (Brandeis University)
Creating Valid Estimates of the Size and Character of the American Jewish Population
- Cross-Survey Analysis to Estimate Low-Incidence Religious Groups
- Measuring the Size and Characteristics of American Jewry: A New Paradigm to Understand an Ancient People
- Estimating the Jewish Population of the United States: 2000-2010
- Estimating the Jewish Population of the United States: 2000-2010, Supplementary Materials (Appendix A, B, C)
- Profile of American Jews: Results from the Survey of American Jews 2010
Ariela Keysar (Trinity College)
Religious and Secular Jews
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