Uzi Rebhun is Associate Professor and head of the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The author of The Wandering Jew in America and co-author of American Israelis: Migration, Transnationalism, and Diasporic Identity, he specializes in the demography of world Jewry, Jewish migration, Jewish identification, and the Jewish family.

Symposium
The Social Scientific Study of Jewry: Sources, Approaches, Debates
Jewish Demography: Fundamentals of the Research Field, Sergio DellaPergola
Measuring the Size and Characteristics of American Jewry: A New Paradigm to Understand an Ancient People, Leonard Saxe, Elizabeth Tighe, and Matthew Boxer
U.S. Jewish Population Studies: Opportunities and Challenges, David Dutwin, Eran Ben Porath, and Ron Miller
Studies of Jewish Identity and Continuity: Competing, Complementary, and Comparative Perspectives, Harriet Hartman
Defining and Measuring the Socioeconomic Status of Jews, Esther Isabelle Wilder
The Professional Dilemma of Jewish Social Scientists: The Case of the ASSJ, Chaim I. Waxman
Contradictory Constructions of "Jewish" in Britain's Political and Legal Systems, David J. Graham
Sources for the Demographic Study of the Jews in the Former Soviet Union, Mark Tolts
Latin American Jewish Social Studies: The Evolution of a Cross-disciplinary Field, Judit Bokser Liwerant
Jews in Israel: Effects of Categorization Practice on Research Findings and Research Frameworks, Aziza Khazzoom
Jewish Majority and Jewish Minority in Israel: The Demographic Debate, Arnon Soffer
Essay
Avi Picard, Funding Aliyah: American Jewry and North African Jews, 1952-1956
Review Essays
The Postwar Era: Repatriation, Resettlement, and Justice
Gabriel Finder, Toward a Broader View of Jewish Rebuilding after the Holocaust
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, The Holocaust and Its Aftermath in the Yishuv
and the State of Israel
Laura Jockusch, Beyond Nuremberg: New Scholarship on Nazi War Crimes Trials
in Germany
Olga Litvak, The God of History
Book Reviews
Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide
David Bankier and Dan Michman (eds.), Holocaust and Justice: Representation
and Historiography of the Holocaust in Post-war Trials, Laura Jockusch
Shlomo Bar-Gil and Ada Schein, Viyshavtem betah: nitzolei hashoah bahityashvut
ha'ovedet (Dwell in safety: Holocaust survivors in the rural cooperative
settlement), Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
Yehuda Bauer, The Death of the Shtetl, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
John Cramer, Belsen Trial 1945: Der Lüneburger Prozess gegen Wachpersonal der
Konzentrationslager Auschwitz und Bergen-Belsen, Laura Jockusch
Margarete Myers Feinstein, Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany, 1945-1957,
Gabriel N. Finder
Jonathan C. Friedman (ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust, Dan
Michman
Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied
Germany, Gabriel N. Finder
Patricia Heberer and Jürgen Matthäus (eds.), Atrocities on Trial: Historical
Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes, Laura Jockusch
Ariel Hurwitz, Jews without Power: American Jewry during the Holocaust, Rafael
Medoff
Tomaz Jardim, The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany,
Laura Jockusch
Laura Jockusch, Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early
Postwar Europe, Gabriel N. Finder
Otto Dov Kulka and Eberhard Jäckel (eds.), The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports
on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945, trans. William Templer,
Marion Kaplan
Tamar Lewinsky, Displaced Poets: Jiddische Schriftsteller im
Nachkriegsdeutschland, 1945-1951, Gabriel N. Finder
Anna Lipphardt, Vilne: Die Juden aus Vilnius nach dem Holocaust. Ein
transnationale Beziehungsgeschichte, Tobias Brinkmann
Dalia Ofer, Françoise S. Ouzan, and Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz (eds.),
Holocaust Survivors: Resettlement, Memories, Identities, Gabriel N.
Finder
Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz (eds.), "We Are Here": New Approaches
to Jewish Displaced Persons in Germany, Gabriel N. Finder
Dina Porat, Israeli Society: The Holocaust and Its Survivors, Judith Tydor
Baumel-Schwartz
Kim C. Priemel and Alexa Stiller (eds.), Reassessing the Nuremberg Military
Tribunals: Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography,
Laura Jockusch
Shimon Redlich, Life in Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950, Gabriel N.
Finder
Alan Rosen, The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David
Broder, Gabriel N. Finder
Cultural Studies, Literature and Thought
Leora Batnitzky, How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern
Jewish Thought, Hanoch Ben-Pazi
David Biale, Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought, Robert
M. Seltzer
Leonid Livak, The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian
Literature, Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan
Shachar Pinsker, Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in
Europe, Jordan Finkin
Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus, Jeffrey Shandler
Art Spiegelman, MetaMaus, Jeffrey Shandler
Michael Weingrad, American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity
in the United States, Jordan Finkin
History, Social Sciences, and Biography
Rebecca T. Alpert, Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball, Ezra Mendelsohn
Gur Alroey, Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Letters from Jewish Migrants in the
Early 20th Century, Frank Wolff
Yaakov (Jacob) Barnai, Shmuel Ettinger: Historiyon, moreh veish tzibur (Shmuel
Ettinger: Historian, teacher and public figure), Olga Litvak
Albert I. Baumgarten, Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews, Olga Litvak
Michael Brenner, Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History, trans. Steven
Rendall, Olga Litvak
David Cesarani, Tony Kushner, and Milton Shain (eds.), Place and
Displacement in Jewish History and Memory: Zakor V'makor, Natasha
Gordinsky
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan M. Meir, and Israel Bartal (eds.),
Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History, Brian
Horowitz
Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore (eds.), Gender and Jewish History,
Vicki Caron
John Doyle Klier, Russians, Jews and the Pogroms of 1881-1882, Brian Horowitz
Rebecca Kobrin, Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora, Gur Alroey
Zionist, Israel, and the Middle East
Shaul Kelner, Tours that Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright
Tourism, Jackie Feldman
Henry Near, Where Community Happens: The Kibbutz and the Philosophy of
Communalism, Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Noam Pianko, Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Cohen,
Allan M. Arkush
Leonard Saxe and Barry Chazan, Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in
Young Adult Identity, Jackie Feldman
Matthew Silver, Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's
Founding Story, Ariel Feldestein
Gadi Taub, The Settlers and the Struggle over the Meaning of Zionism, Michael
Feige
Contents for Volume XXVIII
Note on Editorial Policy

Continuing its distinguished tradition of focusing on central political, sociological, and cultural issues of Jewish life in the last century, this latest volume in the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series focuses on how Jewry has been studied in the social science disciplines. Its symposium consists of essays that discuss sources, approaches, and debates in the complementary fields of demography, sociology, economics, and geography.
The social sciences are central for the understanding of contemporary Jewish life and have engendered much controversy over the past few decades. To a large extent, the multitude of approaches toward Jewish social science research reflects the nature of population studies in general, and that of religions and ethnic groups in particular. Yet the variation in methodology, definitions, and measures of demographic, socioeconomic, and cultural patterns is even more salient in the study of Jews. Different data sets have different definitions for what is "Jewish" or "who is a Jew." In addition, Jews as a group are characterized by high rates of migration, including repeated migration, which makes it difficult to track any given Jewish population. Finally, the question of identification is complicated by the fact that in most places, especially outside of Israel, it is not clear whether "being Jewish" is primarily a religious or an ethnic matter - or both, or neither.
This volume also features an essay on American Jewry and North African Jewry; review essays on rebuilding after the Holocaust, Nazi war crimes trials, and Jewish historiography; and reviews of new titles in Jewish studies.