By Uzi Rebhun

Uzi Rebhun presents the reader with a radical description and research of the multifaceted nature of Jewish inner migration within the usa. utilizing info from the 1990 and 2000 NJPS, and during up to date ways within the social sciences, he lines alterations within the degrees, instructions, and kinds of Jewish migration, comparing the altering social and fiscal features of the migrants. eventually, Rebhun exams the relationships among migration and Jewish habit in either the non-public and public spheres, his findings contributing to the theoretical literature on inner migration and to a greater knowing of yank ethnicity. The Wandering Jew in the United States is a wonderful source for college kids of migration, ethnicity, and sociology of faith, in addition to these attracted to Jewish existence in the USA.

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12). 7). For the country as a whole, the South was the main destination for temporary movers. 3 percent 56 Geographic Dispersion and Mobility Ta b l e 2 . S. S. 9 percent reported spending most of their absence from home in this region. Each of the other three regions was ‘home base’ to a larger proportion of bilocal residents than it was a temporary residence. For Northeastern Jews who moved temporarily from their region of residence to another region, the preferred destination was the South, attracting one-third of the bilocals.

Accordingly, Jews in non-metropolitan areas have a weaker sense of belonging to the Jewish people, they tend less to observe the Shabbat and major Jewish holidays, and they have a lower level of synagogue attendance. It should be noted that during the same time the proportion of total Americans living in metropolitan areas has increased slightly (Perry and Mackun, 2001). The slight shift by Jews to non-metropolitan residence may reflect a growing preference for residence in smaller towns and outlying areas, resulting possibly from greater concern with environmental issues and facilitated by computer technology.

The findings that emerged from different local studies were not always consistent across communities. Cohen (1983) and Goldscheider (1986) showed that people living in Greater Boston who were born outside of it, and especially recent migrants (shortly before 1975), were young and had a high proportion of singles or families with no children; these in-migrants were also highly educated and, on the average, their income was lower than that of the more veteran Jewish inhabitants. A later study of the same community from 1985 indicated a very similar socio-demographic selectivity of migrants as compared to local-born Jews, which was further reflected in the larger concentration of the former in professional occupations (Rebhun, 1991).

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