I M Sheskin
Biographic Data
| ID | 17084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I M Sheskin |
| GIVEN NAMES | I M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheskin |
| SIGNATURE | SHESKIN I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8039-0429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sergio DellaPergola: US Jews, Reflections on Identity and Demography, Studies of Jews in Society, Volume 7
How Many Jews of Color Are There? Recognizing Jewish Diversity: Science and Controversy
First, this paper contends that, in 2013, the best estimate of the percentage of Jews who are Jews of Color (JoC) was about 6%, and in 2020, it was about 8%. We rely on two sources to support this conclusion: national Jewish population studies and local Jewish community studies. This paper also presents evidence that members of some groups (Hispanic Jews in particular) may not consider themselves to be "of color," and Black, Hispanic, Asian, and …
"Where" Matters: The Importance of Geographic Factors in Understanding American Jewry, Sklare Address
A Comparison of FSU Jews and Non-FSU Jews in the USA
Social Class and Social Cohesion among American Jews
Background Distinctions in social class and their implications for social cohesion have periodically emerged among American Jews, but they largely receded in the last quarter of the 20th century as most Jews reached middle and upper class status. The connections between them have received little attention since then. Purpose We revisit the relationship between social class and social cohesion among American Jews. Though American Jews have been di…
What's in a Name? Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability Key Words and Program Names
The academic discipline of geography, faced with increasing competition from cognate fields and declining undergraduate enrollments, continues to suffer an identity crisis. In recent decades, many geography programs have instituted department or degree name changes, or otherwise rebranded, without any evidence guiding these decisions. This study begins to build an evidence base for these decisions by presenting results from a survey of 4,388 unde…
The Political Consequences of Trauma: Holocaust Exposure and Emotional Attachment to Israel Among American Jews
When Sociology Meets Geography: Spatial Variations in Jewish Family Types
Good Practices in Local Jewish Community Studies
Denominational Variations Across American Jewish Communities
This article explores the Jewish identity of different Jewish denominational identification groups using the Decade 2000 Data Set with its 19,800 interviews of Jewish households in 22 American Jewish communities. We relate the Jewish identity of individuals in each denominational group (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform/Reconstructionist) to the denominational composition of the community. Communities are clustered via k‐means cluster analysis based…
Strands of Diaspora: The Resettlement Experience of Jewish Immigrants to Australia
The (Dis)similarity of a Minority Religion to Its Broader Religious Context: The Case of American Jews
While much research shows the relationship between individual-level variables, such as Jewish background, education, age, and income and an individual's Jewish identity, very little research has systematically addressed the question of community context, either general or Jewish, as a factor influencing Jewish religious or ethnic identity. This lack of research has been partially a result of the lack of an adequate data set to facilitate such ana…
Uses of Local Jewish Community Study Data for Addressing National Concerns
The Relationship of Jewish Community Contexts and Jewish Identity: A 22-Community Study
Attachment of American Jews to Israel: Perspectives from Local Jewish Community Studies
A Geographical Approach to an Analysis of the Distancing Hypothesis
Comparisons between local Jewish community studies and the 2000–01 national Jewish population survey
Geographical Identities of Ethnic America
Kate A. Berry and Martha L. Henderson, eds. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2002. xv and 311 pp., maps, diags., photos., and index. $29.95 paper (ISBN 0-87417-487-2).Reflecting a growing interest...
The California Cauldron: Immigration and the Fortunes of Local Communities . William A. V. Clark; The Atlas of Ethnic Diversity in Wisconsin . Kazimierz J. Zaniewski and Carol J. Rosen
Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More . Eileen Boris and Elisabeth Pr gl, editors; Stairways to the Stars . Anthony Aveni; Britain's Cities: Geographies of Division in Urban Britain . M…
Local jewish population studies: Still necessary after all these years
Jewish identity in the sunbelt: The jewish population of orlando, florida
Jewish Metropolitan Homelands
This article establishes three criteria for the identification of an ethnic homeland. First, the ethnic group in question must recognize that a particular area has a special significance for itself; it must feel "at home" in such an area. Second, the American public in general must recognize that a particular area holds special significance for a particular group. Third, the imprint of the ethnic group in question should be visible on the landsca…
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory , Edward W. Soja; Cities in China , Urbanization of the Earth Series, No. 7, Alfred Schinz; Cities in Space, Cities as Place …
(1991). Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory, Edward W. Soja; Cities in China, Urbanization of the Earth Series, No. 7, Alfred Schinz; Cities in Space, Cities as Place, David T. Herbert and Colin J. Thomas. Urban Geography: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 93-98
A comparative profile of Jewish elderly in South Florida and Israel
Consumer Behavior in Different Areas∗
Some facets of the evolution of consumer food shopping behavior are examined by a comparison of revealed preference studies in regions of differing economic development: Aguascalientes, Mexico (1968); Iowa (1934); Iowa (1960); and Michigan (1966–1968). The majority of rural Mexicans obey the Christallerian nearest neighbor axiom, but a few patronize the capital and regional centers regardless of distance. This behavioral variance is a function of…
Denominational Variations Across American Jewish Communities
This article explores the Jewish identity of different Jewish denominational identification groups using the Decade 2000 Data Set with its 19,800 interviews of Jewish households in 22 American Jewish communities. We relate the Jewish identity of individuals in each denominational group (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform/Reconstructionist) to the denominational composition of the community. Communities are clustered via k‐means cluster analysis based…
The (Dis)similarity of a Minority Religion to Its Broader Religious Context: The Case of American Jews
While much research shows the relationship between individual-level variables, such as Jewish background, education, age, and income and an individual's Jewish identity, very little research has systematically addressed the question of community context, either general or Jewish, as a factor influencing Jewish religious or ethnic identity. This lack of research has been partially a result of the lack of an adequate data set to facilitate such ana…
Uses of Local Jewish Community Study Data for Addressing National Concerns
What's in a Name? Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability Key Words and Program Names
The academic discipline of geography, faced with increasing competition from cognate fields and declining undergraduate enrollments, continues to suffer an identity crisis. In recent decades, many geography programs have instituted department or degree name changes, or otherwise rebranded, without any evidence guiding these decisions. This study begins to build an evidence base for these decisions by presenting results from a survey of 4,388 unde…
Strands of Diaspora: The Resettlement Experience of Jewish Immigrants to Australia
Social Class and Social Cohesion among American Jews
Background Distinctions in social class and their implications for social cohesion have periodically emerged among American Jews, but they largely receded in the last quarter of the 20th century as most Jews reached middle and upper class status. The connections between them have received little attention since then. Purpose We revisit the relationship between social class and social cohesion among American Jews. Though American Jews have been di…
When Sociology Meets Geography: Spatial Variations in Jewish Family Types
Jewish Metropolitan Homelands
This article establishes three criteria for the identification of an ethnic homeland. First, the ethnic group in question must recognize that a particular area has a special significance for itself; it must feel "at home" in such an area. Second, the American public in general must recognize that a particular area holds special significance for a particular group. Third, the imprint of the ethnic group in question should be visible on the landsca…
Natural Gas: A Geographical Perspective
The paper attempts to illustrate the utility of a linear programming model for predicting natural gas flows between producers and local distributors. The model is used to replicate past flow patterns. Natural gas flows are derived from estimate of 1980--1990 supply and demand, assuming that wholesalers will attempt to obtain natural gas from the least expensive available supplier in terms of wellhead price and transportation costs combined, and t…
Consumer Behavior in Different Areas∗
Some facets of the evolution of consumer food shopping behavior are examined by a comparison of revealed preference studies in regions of differing economic development: Aguascalientes, Mexico (1968); Iowa (1934); Iowa (1960); and Michigan (1966–1968). The majority of rural Mexicans obey the Christallerian nearest neighbor axiom, but a few patronize the capital and regional centers regardless of distance. This behavioral variance is a function of…
Natural Gas: A Geographical Perspective
The paper attempts to illustrate the utility of a linear programming model for predicting natural gas flows between producers and local distributors. The model is used to replicate past flow patterns. Natural gas flows are derived from estimate of 1980--1990 supply and demand, assuming that wholesalers will attempt to obtain natural gas from the least expensive available supplier in terms of wellhead price and transportation costs combined, and t…
Spatial variations in attitudes toward expanded public transit service
La Ville Americaine: Histoire, Architecture, Urbanisme, Geographie, Aspects Sociaux . Jean Soumagne (photographs by Mme. C. Soumagne-Papy, J. Soumagne, and others), and Urbanizatsiia v S.Sh.A . (Urban…
(1988). La Ville Americaine: Histoire, Architecture, Urbanisme, Geographie, Aspects Sociaux. Jean Soumagne (photographs by Mme. C. Soumagne-Papy, J. Soumagne, and others), and Urbanizatsiia v S.Sh.A. (Urbanization in the United States). Valerii Mikhailovich Kharitonov; Stadtepolitik, Stadtumbau und Stadterhaltung in der DDR. Peter Scholler; The Middle East City, Ancient Traditions Confront a Modern World. Abdulaziz Y. Saqqaf, editor. Urban Geogra…
Estimating the number of Jews in the service area of the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County: Lessons for all Jewish Communities
A comparative profile of Jewish elderly in South Florida and Israel
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory , Edward W. Soja; Cities in China , Urbanization of the Earth Series, No. 7, Alfred Schinz; Cities in Space, Cities as Place …
(1991). Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory, Edward W. Soja; Cities in China, Urbanization of the Earth Series, No. 7, Alfred Schinz; Cities in Space, Cities as Place, David T. Herbert and Colin J. Thomas. Urban Geography: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 93-98
Jewish Metropolitan Homelands
This article establishes three criteria for the identification of an ethnic homeland. First, the ethnic group in question must recognize that a particular area has a special significance for itself; it must feel "at home" in such an area. Second, the American public in general must recognize that a particular area holds special significance for a particular group. Third, the imprint of the ethnic group in question should be visible on the landsca…
Local jewish population studies: Still necessary after all these years
Jewish identity in the sunbelt: The jewish population of orlando, florida
Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More . Eileen Boris and Elisabeth Pr gl, editors; Stairways to the Stars . Anthony Aveni; Britain's Cities: Geographies of Division in Urban Britain . M…
The California Cauldron: Immigration and the Fortunes of Local Communities . William A. V. Clark; The Atlas of Ethnic Diversity in Wisconsin . Kazimierz J. Zaniewski and Carol J. Rosen
Geographical Identities of Ethnic America
Kate A. Berry and Martha L. Henderson, eds. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2002. xv and 311 pp., maps, diags., photos., and index. $29.95 paper (ISBN 0-87417-487-2).Reflecting a growing interest...
Comparisons between local Jewish community studies and the 2000–01 national Jewish population survey
A Geographical Approach to an Analysis of the Distancing Hypothesis
The Relationship of Jewish Community Contexts and Jewish Identity: A 22-Community Study
Attachment of American Jews to Israel: Perspectives from Local Jewish Community Studies
The (Dis)similarity of a Minority Religion to Its Broader Religious Context: The Case of American Jews
While much research shows the relationship between individual-level variables, such as Jewish background, education, age, and income and an individual's Jewish identity, very little research has systematically addressed the question of community context, either general or Jewish, as a factor influencing Jewish religious or ethnic identity. This lack of research has been partially a result of the lack of an adequate data set to facilitate such ana…
Uses of Local Jewish Community Study Data for Addressing National Concerns
Denominational Variations Across American Jewish Communities
This article explores the Jewish identity of different Jewish denominational identification groups using the Decade 2000 Data Set with its 19,800 interviews of Jewish households in 22 American Jewish communities. We relate the Jewish identity of individuals in each denominational group (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform/Reconstructionist) to the denominational composition of the community. Communities are clustered via k‐means cluster analysis based…
Strands of Diaspora: The Resettlement Experience of Jewish Immigrants to Australia
Good Practices in Local Jewish Community Studies
The Political Consequences of Trauma: Holocaust Exposure and Emotional Attachment to Israel Among American Jews
When Sociology Meets Geography: Spatial Variations in Jewish Family Types
What's in a Name? Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability Key Words and Program Names
The academic discipline of geography, faced with increasing competition from cognate fields and declining undergraduate enrollments, continues to suffer an identity crisis. In recent decades, many geography programs have instituted department or degree name changes, or otherwise rebranded, without any evidence guiding these decisions. This study begins to build an evidence base for these decisions by presenting results from a survey of 4,388 unde…
Sociology (29 works) · Geography (22 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (19 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (19 works) · Judaism (19 works) · Sociology of religion (16 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Social science (13 works) · Demography (12 works) · Political science (12 works)