American Jewish Year Book 2023

Arnold Dashefsky, Ph.D. 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 is the co-author, editor, or co-editor of seventeen books, including Americans Abroad, Charitable Choices, Ethnic Identification Among American Jews, among others, as well as numerous scholarly articles. A former associate head of the sociology department, he was the founding director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, located in the Thomas J. Dodd Center for Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, and is the director emeritus and current senior academic consultant of the Berman Jewish DataBank.Ira M. Sheskin, Ph.D. is the director of the Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami and professor of geography and sustainable development at the sameinstitution. He has completed more than 50 major Jewish community studies for Jewish Federations throughout the country and was a member of the National Technical Advisory Committee of the Jewish Federations of North America from 1988 to 2003, which completed both the 1990 and 2000-01 National Jewish Population Surveys. His publications include books entitled Survey Research for Geographers, How Jewish Communities Differ, and Comparisons of Jewish Communities: A Compendium of Tables and Bar Charts.

• Part I.- Chapter 1. "Jewish Museums.” Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett.- Chapter 2. “Sephardic Jews in the US.” Henry Green and Ira M. Sheskin.- Chapter 3. “Denominational Affiliations of US Jews: What It Means in 2023.” Leonard Saxe, Janet Krasner Aronson, and Matthew Brookner.- Chapter 4. “American Jews and the Domestic Arena (December 2022 – November 2023).” Sylvia Barack Fishman.- Chapter 5. American Jews and the International Arena (December 2022 – November 2023.” Mitchell Bard.- Chapter 6. “United States Jewish Population, 2023.” Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky.- Chapter 7. “Canadian Jewish Population, 2023.” Robert Brym.- Chapter 8. “World Jewish Population, 2023.” Sergio DellaPergola.- Part II.- Chapter 1. “Local Jewish Organizations.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 2. “Jewish Museums and Holocaust Museums, Memorials, and Monuments.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 3. “Jewish Overnight Camps.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 4. “National Jewish Organizations.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 5. “Jewish Press.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 6.” Academic Resources.” Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, Sarah Markowitz, and Kimberly Soby.- Chapter 7. “Transitions: Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries.” Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, Sarah Markowitz, Arno Rosenfeld, and Kimberly Soby.