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Calvin Goldscheider

Calvin Goldscheider is Ungerleider Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies and Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. His major research publications have focused on the sociology and demography of ethnic populations, historically and comparatively, with a particular emphasis on family and immigration. He has published extensively in these fields in the leading sociology and demography journals and has edited eight collections of original scholarly research in demography. His major authored and co-authored books include: Population, Modernization and Social Structure; The Population of Israel; The Ethnic Factor in Family Structure and Mobility; The Transformation of the Jews; Jewish Continuity and Change; Leaving Home Before Marriage: Ethnicity, Family and Generational Relations; Israel's Changing Society: Population Ethnicity and Development; and The Transition to Adulthood.

Calvin Goldscheider
This volume illuminates changes in Israeli society over the past generation. Goldscheider identifies three key social changes that have led to the transformation...