L Saxe
Biographic Data
| ID | 17069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Saxe |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Saxe |
| SIGNATURE | SAXE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3381-8637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1941 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Antisemitism, Israel, and political ideology on the American college campus
Jewish Educational Interventions in an Era of Diversity: Birthright Israel’s Impact on Participants from Different Religious and Cultural Backgrounds
Ensuring that Jewish educational initiatives address the growing diversity of the US Jewish community requires, in part, understanding the background characteristics of participants and how a given educational program affects the trajectory of Jewish engagement for those with little, moderate, or a substantial amount of prior Jewish education and experiences. The present paper undertakes this analysis using the example of Birthright Israel. First…
According to their Numbers: Assessing the Pew Research Center’s Estimate of 7.5 Million Jewish Americans
The Pew Research Center’s survey, Jewish Americans in 2020 , was designed to provide estimates of the size of the US Jewish population, sociodemographic data on issues such as intermarriage, child-rearing, engagement in Jewish communal life, and a description of American Jewish attitudes. A sophisticated sample design was employed to ensure accurate and generalizable assessments of the population. Because Jews are a small sub-group and the US gov…
Charles Kadushin, z’l: A Life-Long Student of How We Are Connected to One Another
The Reach and Impact of Birthright Israel: What We Can Learn from Pew’s “Jewish Americans in 2020”
The Pew Research Center’s 2020 survey of American Jews is a valuable resource to scholars of American Jewry, enabling interrogation of questions using data that no other source can reliably provide. One set of questions pertains to the reach and impact of Birthright Israel, the largest extant Jewish educational program targeted at Jewish young adults, on American Jews. Pew’s nationally representative sample provides important validation of previo…
Social Science and Consensus in Estimates of the US Jewish Population: Response to Sasson and DellaPergola
In response to Isaac Sasson and Sergio DellaPergola’s commentaries on our assessment of the validity of the Pew Research Center's 2020 estimate of 7.5 million US Jewish adults and children (Tighe et al. 2022), we address key points of agreement and contention in the validity of the estimate; in particular, how the Jewish population is identified and defined. We argue that Pew’s definition of the Jewish population is consistent with major studies …
Antisemitism and polarization: The political dynamics of American Jewish concerns about traditional and Israel-related antisemitism
Notwithstanding the increasing alignment between social and political identities, political divisions exist within social groups as well as between them. Despite their shared traditions, American Jews face similar political divisions as Americans in general. But could the perception of a common threat, such as antisemitism, alter the dynamics of political polarization within a social group? American Jews' concerns about antisemitism might themsel…
In Honor of Joseph Neubauer, Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, and Alan Cooperman, Mandell L. Berman Service Awardees 2021
Is Criticism Disloyal? American Jews' Attitudes toward Israel
To what extent is it possible for American Jews to maintain a deep emotional connection to Israel while criticizing the actions of the Israeli government? This long-debated question echoes earlier investigations of different forms of patriotism toward one's home country. Drawing on two 2019 surveys of American Jews, we find that, like Americans in general, Jewish liberals and conservatives express different forms of patriotism toward both Israel …
Trends in Jewish Young Adult Experiences and Perceptions of Antisemitism in America from 2017 to 2019
Since 2016, a series of horrific acts motivated by antisemitism appear to have caused a fundamental shift in the prevalence of antisemitism in the United States. Little is known, however, about how the events during this time have affected the day-to-day experiences and concerns of American Jews. Using repeated cross-sectional data from surveys of Jewish young adults who applied to Birthright Israel, this paper analyzes recent trends in Jewish yo…
Lonely in Lockdown: Predictors of Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties Among Jewish Young Adults during the Covid-19 Pandemic
As individuals undergoing a developmental process characterized by identity exploration, Jewish young adults are particularly vulnerable to the disruption of social connections related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent research has demonstrated that young adults, including young Jews, have experienced higher rates of mental health difficulties than older individuals during the pandemic. Using data from a survey of Jewish young adults who applied t…
A New Approach to Understanding Contemporary Jewish Engagement
Although researchers have long recognized the multidimensional nature of Jewish life (e.g., Hartman in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Oxford University Press, New York, 2014; Himmelfarb in Understanding American Jewry, Brandeis University, Waltham, 1982), most sociodemographic studies examine Jewish behaviors and attitudes in isolation rather than considering their complex interactions. Examining each of these behaviors and dimensions separately …
Assessing the Validity of Data Synthesis Methods to Estimate Religious Populations
The present study tests the validity of a data synthesis approach to population estimates of religiously defined groups. This is particularly important in places like the United States, where there is no definitive source of official data on its population's religious composition, and researchers must rely on costly, large-scale surveys, or congregational membership studies. Each approach has limitations, especially for estimation of small religi…
Millennial Children of Intermarriage: Religious Upbringing, Identification, and Behavior Among Children of Jewish and Non-Jewish Parents
‘All Politics is Local’: Challenges in the Study of Local Jewish Communities
Reflections on the Science of the Social Scientific Study of Jewry: Marshall Sklare Award Lecture
Does Taglit-Birthright Israel Foster Long-Distance Nationalism
Taglit-Birthright Israel has brought hundreds of thousands of diaspora Jewish young adults on tours of Israel. Drawing on data from a large-scale program evaluation, we ask how the program affects participants' feelings of homeland attachment and political views on contentious homeland issues. North Americans who traveled to Israel with Taglit between 2010 and 2012 were surveyed together with a comparison group of applicants to the program who di…
Teaching Israel at American Universities: Growth, Placement, and Future Prospects
The teaching of Israel at American universities has grown dramatically in recent years and has become normalized in the curriculum. A census was conducted at 316 schools to assess 2011-2012 course offerings related to Israel in order to analyze growth over time, characteristics of courses, and institutional characteristics that contribute to growth. Results indicate a small increase in Israel-focused courses between 2008-09 and 2011-12, following…
Estimating and Understanding the Jewish Population in the United States: A Program of Research
Using Consumer Panels to Understand the Characteristics of US Jewry
Introduction: Special Issue on Jewish Demography in the United States
Understanding Young Adult Attachment to Israel: Period, Lifecycle and Generational Dynamics
How Socially Integrated into Mainstream America are Young American Jews
Loyalty and Love of Israel by Diasporan Jews
Loyalty and Love of Israel by Diasporan Jews Leonard Saxe (bio) and Matthew Boxer (bio) The relationship of Diaspora Jewry to Israel has been the focus of intense, sometimes bitter debate, both before and after the establishment of the State of Israel.1 The creation of Israel in the shadow of the Holocaust and the "ingathering" of Jews from around the world in its first decade muted critical voices, even those who had been ambivalent.2 In the ear…
Intermarriage: The Impact and Lessons of Taglit-Birthright Israel
National Jewish population survey 2000–01: A guide for the perplexed
Physical attractiveness and its relationship to sex-role stereotyping
Why It Is So Difficult to Form Effective Community Coalitions
Reviews of large‐scale community coalition evaluations suggest that most have not been successful either in involving a broad array of institutions or in meeting their outcome goals. Informed by the literature and by insights from fieldwork, a social‐structural theoretical explanation is offered for this lack of success. To summarize: coalition structures and the concept of community are loosely defined; local structures attempt to cope with prob…
Cross-Survey Analysis to Estimate Low-Incidence Religious Groups
Population-based surveys are of limited utility to estimate rare or low-incidence groups, particularly for those defined by religion or ethnicity not included in the U.S. Census. Methods of cross-survey analysis and small area estimation, however, can be used to provide reliable estimates of such low-incidence groups. To illustrate these methods, data from 50 national surveys are combined to examine the Jewish population in the United States. Hie…
The Visibility of Illicit Drugs: Implications for Community-Based Drug Control Strategies
Objectives. This study examined differences between the visibility of drugs and drug use in more than 2100 neighborhoods, challenging an assumption about drug use in poor, minority, and urban communities. Methods. A telephone survey assessed substance use and attitudes across 41 communities in an evaluation of a national community-based demand reduction program. Three waves of data were collected from more than 42 000 respondents. Results. Measur…
Does Taglit-Birthright Israel Foster Long-Distance Nationalism
Taglit-Birthright Israel has brought hundreds of thousands of diaspora Jewish young adults on tours of Israel. Drawing on data from a large-scale program evaluation, we ask how the program affects participants' feelings of homeland attachment and political views on contentious homeland issues. North Americans who traveled to Israel with Taglit between 2010 and 2012 were surveyed together with a comparison group of applicants to the program who di…
Perceptions of similarly and dissimilarly attractive couples and individuals
Estimating and Understanding the Jewish Population in the United States: A Program of Research
Social Attitudes of Russian Immigrants to the United States
This study examined attitudes of Russian immigrants to the United States on women's equality, abortion, homosexuality, and Blacks. Interviews with first-generation immigrants were conducted, and their attitudes were compared with those reported in the 1991 General Social Survey of U.S. residents. The immigrants held more pro-abortion, anti-homosexual, and anti-Black attitudes than the Americans did; they were also less supportive of women's equal…
Reaction to Attitudinal Deviance: Impact of Deviate's Direction and Distance of Movement
Loyalty and Love of Israel by Diasporan Jews
Loyalty and Love of Israel by Diasporan Jews Leonard Saxe (bio) and Matthew Boxer (bio) The relationship of Diaspora Jewry to Israel has been the focus of intense, sometimes bitter debate, both before and after the establishment of the State of Israel.1 The creation of Israel in the shadow of the Holocaust and the "ingathering" of Jews from around the world in its first decade muted critical voices, even those who had been ambivalent.2 In the ear…
Triangulation and Mixed Methods Designs: Practicing What We Preach in the Evaluation of an Israel Experience Educational Program
This article clarifies the role of triangulation in mixed methods research designs. Triangulation is used to describe "severe" statistical tests of correlation between alternative quantitative measurements and is employed to test the accuracy of those measurements. In contrast, the broader concept of mixed methods describes the integration of diverse qualitative and quantitative approaches and is employed to build theory. The concepts are develop…
Guest-Host Encounters in Diaspora-Heritage Tourism: The Taglit-Birthright Israel Mifgash (Encounter)
More than 300,000 diaspora Jewish young adults and tens of thousands of their Israeli peers have participated in structured, cross-cultural encounters—mifgashim—in the context of an experiential education program known as Taglit-Birthright Israel. Drawing on field observations, interviews, and surveys, the formal and informal components of the encounters are described, and the meanings participants attach to the experience are analyzed. For North…
Assessing the Validity of Data Synthesis Methods to Estimate Religious Populations
The present study tests the validity of a data synthesis approach to population estimates of religiously defined groups. This is particularly important in places like the United States, where there is no definitive source of official data on its population's religious composition, and researchers must rely on costly, large-scale surveys, or congregational membership studies. Each approach has limitations, especially for estimation of small religi…
Using Consumer Panels to Understand the Characteristics of US Jewry
Interpreting the Fort Bragg Children's Mental Health Demonstration Project: The cup is half full
Policymakers' Use of Social Science Research: Technology Assessment in the U.S. Congress
Technology assessment (TA) is one model for synthesizing social science research and theory for policymakers. TA requires an unbiased assessment of social research presented in understandable and policy-relevant form. This article describes the conduct of three studies for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) concerned with psychotherapy, treatment for alcoholism, and the conduct of polygraph tests. The studies indicate the pot…
Is Criticism Disloyal? American Jews' Attitudes toward Israel
To what extent is it possible for American Jews to maintain a deep emotional connection to Israel while criticizing the actions of the Israeli government? This long-debated question echoes earlier investigations of different forms of patriotism toward one's home country. Drawing on two 2019 surveys of American Jews, we find that, like Americans in general, Jewish liberals and conservatives express different forms of patriotism toward both Israel …
Teaching Israel at American Universities: Growth, Placement, and Future Prospects
The teaching of Israel at American universities has grown dramatically in recent years and has become normalized in the curriculum. A census was conducted at 316 schools to assess 2011-2012 course offerings related to Israel in order to analyze growth over time, characteristics of courses, and institutional characteristics that contribute to growth. Results indicate a small increase in Israel-focused courses between 2008-09 and 2011-12, following…
Introduction: Special Issue on Jewish Demography in the United States
The dependence potential of short half-life benzodiazepines: A meta-analysis
OBJECTIVES. The dependence potential of benzodiazepine medications is now widely recognized, but uncertainty exists as to whether use of short half-life vs long half-life drugs results in greater dependence. The present study reports a meta-analysis of the extant research to evaluate the dependence potential of different types of benzodiazepines. METHOD. Seven studies were found that specifically compared long half-life and short half-life benzod…
The Judicial Council of the State of New York; Its Objectives, Methods, and Accomnlishments. I
The Judicial Council and Its Objectives . My assignment is to implement Professor Sunderland's brilliant primer on judicial councils by a more specific presentation utilizing the experiences of the New York State Judicial Council. Of the three elements that enter into a consideration of the judicial branch of government, the first—the substantive law, the law of rights and duties—is not within the province of the judicial council either in New Yo…
Extreme Dissent, Conformity Reduction and the Bases of Social Influence
This study investigated how “correct” and “incorrect” dissenters from erroneous group consensus affect conformity on visual and opinion stimuli under normative and informational social pressure. Subjects were female undergraduates exposed to group pressure in a Tuddenbam-type electrical signaling apparatus. Results indicated that the relative impact on con-fortuity of “correct” and “incorrect” dissenters was not significantly affected by type of …
Importance of Locus of Help Initiation and Type of Outcome as Determinants of Reactions to Another's Help Attempt
Physical attractiveness and its relationship to sex-role stereotyping
Reaction to Attitudinal Deviance: Impact of Deviate's Direction and Distance of Movement
Perceptions of similarly and dissimilarly attractive couples and individuals
The Ubiquity of Physical Appearance as a Determinant of Social Relationships
Teachers' Information Processing: Effect of Information about Pupils on Teachers' Expectations and Affect
The present study investigated how elementary teachers (18 men and 25 women) react on the basis of information available about a pupil. Information in the form of attributions affects teachers' expectations and feelings of satisfaction. Sex differences in teachers' reactions and differential responses to sex of the pupil were observed
Recent unobtrusive studies of Black and White discrimination and prejudice: A literature review
Recent unobtrusive studies of Black and White discrimination and prejudice: A literature review
Reimbursement for psychotherapy: Linking efficacy research and public policymaking
Reimbursement for psychotherapy: Linking efficacy research and public policymaking
Umpiring controversy
Policymakers' Use of Social Science Research: Technology Assessment in the U.S. Congress
Technology assessment (TA) is one model for synthesizing social science research and theory for policymakers. TA requires an unbiased assessment of social research presented in understandable and policy-relevant form. This article describes the conduct of three studies for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) concerned with psychotherapy, treatment for alcoholism, and the conduct of polygraph tests. The studies indicate the pot…
Children's mental health: The gap between what we know and what we do
Children's mental health: The gap between what we know and what we do
Lying: Thoughts of an applied social psychologist
Lies are considered bad, immoral, and reprehensible. Yet there is considerable evidence that prevarication is a ubiquitous feature of human interaction. Psychologists, as well as others in society, often use deceptive techniques for the social good, and there are a number of conditions under which lying is seen as acceptable. There are also numerous situations in which the truth cannot be discerned. This article argues that a psychology of lying …
Lying: Thoughts of an applied social psychologist
Robert Chin (Chen Yuli) (1918–1990): Obituary
The dependence potential of short half-life benzodiazepines: A meta-analysis
OBJECTIVES. The dependence potential of benzodiazepine medications is now widely recognized, but uncertainty exists as to whether use of short half-life vs long half-life drugs results in greater dependence. The present study reports a meta-analysis of the extant research to evaluate the dependence potential of different types of benzodiazepines. METHOD. Seven studies were found that specifically compared long half-life and short half-life benzod…
Social Attitudes of Russian Immigrants to the United States
This study examined attitudes of Russian immigrants to the United States on women's equality, abortion, homosexuality, and Blacks. Interviews with first-generation immigrants were conducted, and their attitudes were compared with those reported in the 1991 General Social Survey of U.S. residents. The immigrants held more pro-abortion, anti-homosexual, and anti-Black attitudes than the Americans did; they were also less supportive of women's equal…
Evaluating systems of care for children: Utility of the clinical case conference
A clinical assessment of the Mental Health Services Program for Youth, a national initiative to integrate systems and coordinate care for severely emotionally disturbed children, was designed to augment and enrich the larger evaluation of program structure. Case conferences were used as a method of examining the effects of collaborative systems of care on vulnerable individuals and of generating clinical insight and understanding. Case vignettes …
Interpreting the Fort Bragg Children's Mental Health Demonstration Project: The cup is half full
Using Multilevel Modeling in the Evaluation of Community-Based Treatment Programs
The Visibility of Illicit Drugs: Implications for Community-Based Drug Control Strategies
Objectives. This study examined differences between the visibility of drugs and drug use in more than 2100 neighborhoods, challenging an assumption about drug use in poor, minority, and urban communities. Methods. A telephone survey assessed substance use and attitudes across 41 communities in an evaluation of a national community-based demand reduction program. Three waves of data were collected from more than 42 000 respondents. Results. Measur…
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