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CHAIM I. WAXMAN
Mishmar Ha’am St. 11
Jerusalem 93226
ISRAEL
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Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Retired, 7/1/06. Undergraduate Sociology Department Chair, 1978-81, 1985-86, 1992-93;
Senior Fellow, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.
Fellow, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
Community Organizer, Yonkers (NY) Community Action Program, 1984-66.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Central Connecticut State College, 1966-72; Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 1972-75.
Visiting Professor: Tel-Aviv University (1982-84), Yale University (1968-69), Yeshiva University (1976-2001), University of Pittsburgh (1976).
Senior Fellow, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, Jerusalem, 2006-09.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. The New School for Social Research, Sociology, 1974.
M.A. The New School for Social Research, 1965.
M.H.L. Yeshiva University, Jewish Philosophy, History, Sociology, 1966.
B.A. Yeshiva University, Sociology, 1963.
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
IGGUD: Selected Essays in Jewish Studies, Vol. 2, History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewish Society (Co-Ed. with Gershon Bacon, Albert Baumgarten, Jacob Barnai, and Israel J. Yuval). Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 2009.
Religious Zionism Post Disengagement: Future Directions. New York & Jersey City, NJ: Yeshiva University Press/Ktav Publishing House, 2008.
Historical Dictionary of Zionism, Second Edition (Co-Author, with Rafael Medoff). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. Paperback Edition titled, The A to Z of Zionism, 2009. First Edition, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000.
Flipping Out? Myth or Fact: The Impact of the “Year in Israel” (Co-Author with Shalom Z. Berger and Daniel Jacobson). New York: Yashar Books, 2007.
Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns (Co-Ed., with Uzi Rebhun). Hanover: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2004.
Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader (Co-Ed., with Roberta Rosenberg Farber). Hanover: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 1999.
Tikkun Olam: Social Responsibility in Jewish Thought and Law (Co-Ed., with David Shatz and Nathan J. Diament).Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1997.
Study Guide to accompany W. E. Thompson and J. V. Hickey, Society in Focus: An Introduction to Sociology, Second Edition. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
Israel as a Religious Reality (Ed.). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1994.
American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1989.
America’s Jews in Transition. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1983.
Ethnicity, Identity and History (Co-Ed., with Joseph B. Maier). New Brunswick, Transaction Books, 1983.
The Stigma of Poverty: A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies, Second Edition. New York, Pergamon Press, 1983. First Edition, New York, Pergamon Press, 1977.
The Palestinians: People, History, Politics (Co-Ed., with Michael Curtis, Joseph Neyer, and Allen Pollack). New Brunswick, Transaction Books, 1975.
The End of Ideology Debate (Ed.). New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1969. Paperback Edition, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1969.
Poverty: Power and Politics (Ed.). New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1968. Paperback Edition, Universal Library, 1968.
ARTICLES & REPORTS:
"Reflections on the War on Poverty," Yeshiva University Alumni Review, April 1967.
"Culture, Poverty and Ideology," in D. I. Offenbacher and C. H. Poster, eds., Social Problems and Social Policy, New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970.
"Israel's Black Panthers," The American Zionist, September 1971.
"Jerusalem: 1967-1971--An Annotated Bibliography," American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East, Fall 1971.
"The Politics of Religion in Israel," The American Zionist, March 1972.
"Arab Ideology and the Middle East Conflict," American Report, July 21, 1972.
"The Challenge of Bir'im and Ikrit," Congress Bi-Weekly, Nov.10, 1972.
"American Jewry: Winds of Change," Congress Bi-Weekly, June 15, 1973.
"Varieties of Middle East Nationalisms," Middle East Information Series, No. XXV, Winter 1973-74. Reprinted in M. Curtis, J. Neyer, C. I. Waxman, A. Pollack (eds.), The Palestinians: People, History, Politics, New Brunswick, Transaction Books, 1975.
"On American Jewish Identity," Congress Bi-Weekly, Sept. 27, 1974. Reprinted in Focus, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 1974. Translated as "Al zehutam shel Yehudai America," Gesher (Israel), Vol. 82, No. 1, Spring 1975.
"The Centrality of Israel in American Jewish Life: A Sociological Analysis," Judaism, Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring 1976.
"Religious and Communal Elements of Ethnicity: American Jewish College Students and Israel" (with W. B. Helmreich), Ethnicity, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1977.
"The Family and Jewish Identity: A Working Paper," American Jewish Committee, Jewish Communal Affairs Department, Nov. 1976.
"Modern Jewish Orthodoxy in America--Toward the Year 2000" (with E. Mayer), Tradition, Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 1977. Reprinted in R. P. Bulka. ed., Dimensions of American Orthodox Judaism, New York, Ktav Publishing House, 1983.
"Family and Identity in the American Jewish Community," American Jewish Committee, Jewish Communal Affairs Dept., February 1977.
"The Changing Identity of American Jewish College Youth" (with W. B. Helmreich), Forum, No. 27, Spring 1977.
"Psalms of a Sober Man: The Sociology of Marshall Sklare," Contemporary Jewry: A Journal of Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 4, No. 1, Fall/Winter 1977-78.
"An End to Ideological Ethnicity?," Society, Vol. 15, No. 6, September/October 1978.
Report of the AJC Task Force on Jewish Family Policy. New York, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Communal Affairs Dept., Dec. 1978.
"Bringing the Poor Back In: Jewish Poverty in Education for Jewish Communal Service, Forum, No. 35, Spring/Summer 1979.
Single-Parent Families: A Challenge to the Jewish Community. New York, National Jewish Family Center, American Jewish Committee, January 1980.
"The Centrality of the Family in Defining Jewish Identity and Identification," Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Vol. LV, No. 2, June 1979.
"The Threadbare Canopy: The Vicissitudes of the Jewish Family in Modern American Society," American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 23, No. 4, March/April 1980. Reprinted in M. Sklare, ed., American Jews/A Reader. New York, Behrman House, 1983.
"The Impact of Feminism on American Jewish Communal Institutions," Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Vol. LVII, No. 1, Fall 1980.
"The Fourth Generation Grows Up: The Contemporary American Jewish Community," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 454, March 1981. Reprinted in Adelphi University School of Social Work, eds., Issues in Social Welfare, Lexington, Ginn Press, 1985.
"The Sabbath as Dialectic: Its Meaning and Role," Judaism, Vol. 31, No. 1, Winter 1982.
"How Many Are We? Where Are We Going?/The Demographic Facts of Life--and Death," Jewish Life, Vol. VI, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1982.
"Perspectives on Poverty in Early American Sociology," in J. B. Maier and C. I. Waxman, eds., Ethnicity, Identity and History, New Brunswick, Transaction Books, 1983.
"The Stigma of Poverty," in J. A. Jones and H. W. Polsky, eds., Readings on the Urban Environment: Perspectives from the Social Sciences, Lexington, Ginn Publishing Co. 1983.
"Kinship and Consent--A Review Essay," Forum, No. 50, Winter 1983/84.
"The Jewish Father: Past and Present." National Jewish Family Center, American Jewish Committee, January 1984. Reprinted in H. Brod, ed., A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity, Freedom, Calif, Crossing Press, 1988.
"Distorted Image," The Jerusalem Post, June 13, 1984.
"American Israelis in Judea and Samaria: An Empirical Analysis," Middle East Review, Vol. XVII, No. 2, Winter 1984/85.
"Political and Social Attitudes of Americans Among the Settlers in the Territories," in D. Newman, ed., The Impact of Gush Emunim: Politics and Settlement in the West Bank, London, Croom Helm, 1985.
"Confronting Modernity: American Orthodox Judaism in the 20th Century," Journal of Jewish Thought (Jerusalem), Jubilee Issue, 1985. Reprinted in Yearbook of Religious Zionism, 1985/86, Jerusalem, 1985.
"Beyond the Green Line: American Jewish Settlers in Judea, Samaria and Gaza," Jerusalem Newsletter, No. 84, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 17, 1985.
"Challenges to Consensus in the Contemporary American Jewish Community," in S. A. Cohen and E. Don-Yehiya, eds., Conflict and Consensus in Jewish Political Life, Ramat Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1986.
""Those Crazy Americans"?," Midstream, Vol. 32, No. 3, March 1986.
"To Israel and Back: American Aliya and Return Migration" (with M. Appel). American Jewish-Israel Relations Institute, American Jewish Committee, Sept. 1986.
"American Aliya: Dream and Reality," Morasha, Vol. 2, No. 3, Winter-Spring 1987.
"Messianism, Zionism, and the State of Israel," Modern Judaism, Vol. 7, No. 2, May 1987.
"The Limits of Futurology: Conflicting Perspectives on American Jewry," in William Frankel, Ed., Survey of Jewish Affairs, 1987, Cranbury and London, Associated University Presses, 1988.
"The Epithet of Messianism," Morasha, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring- Summer, 1988.
"The Impact of Aliyah and the American Jewish Community," in Steven Bayme, Ed., Facing the Future: Essays on Contemporary Jewish Life, Hoboken, NJ and New York, Ktav and American Jewish Committee, 1989.
"An American Tragedy: Meir Kahane and Kahanism," American Jewish History, Vol. 78, No. 3, March 1989.
"The Return Migration of American Olim," Forum, No. 62, Winter/Spring, 1989.
"The Emancipation, the Enlightenment and the Demography of American Jewry," Judaism, Vol. 38, No. 4, Fall 1989.
"Zion in Jewish Culture," Yearbook of Religious Zionism, 1989-90, Jerusalem, 1989.
"Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?: Perspectives on the Future of the American Jewish Community," in Seymour M. Lipset, Ed., American Pluralism and the Jewish Community, New Brunswick, Transaction Books, 1990.
"Whither American Jewry?," Society, Vol. 28, No. 1, Nov./Dec. 1990.
"Religion and State in Israel: The Perspective of American Jewry," in Eliezer Don-Yehiya, Ed., State and Diaspora: The State of Israel and Jewish Diaspora--Ideological and Political Perspectives, Ramat Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1991.
"Toward a Sociology of Psak," Tradition, Vol. 25, No. 3, Spring 1991.
"The Israeli-Jewish Presence in the Territories," in Bernard Reich and Gershon R. Kieval, Eds., Israeli Politics in the 1990s, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1991.
"An Ambivalent American Jewish Sociologist: The Perspectives of Charles Liebman," American Jewish History, Vol 80, No. 4, Summer 1991.
"Orthodox Judaism and Israeli Society, Midstream, Vol. 37, No. 9, December 1991.
"Assimilation," in Jack Fischel and Sanford Pinsker, Eds., Encyclopedia of American Jewish History and Culture, New York, Garland Publishing Co., 1992.
"Contemporary America's Jews" (in Hebrew), in Lloyd P. Gartner and Jonathan D. Sarna, Eds., The Jews of the United States (in Hebrew), Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 1992.
"Toward a Sociology of Pesak," in M. Sokol, Ed., Rabbinic Authority and Personal Autonomy, Northvale, NJ, Jason Aronson, 1992.
"Are America's Jews Experiencing a Religious Revival," Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer 1992.
Guest Editor, Tradition, Vol. 26, No. 4, Summer 1992.
"Religious Strife in Israel: Contemporary Issues," Tradition, Vol. 26, No. 4, Summer 1992.
"All In the Family: American Jewish Attachments to Israel," in Peter Y. Medding, Ed., A New Jewry?: America Since the Second World War (Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 8), New York, Oxford University Press, 1992.
"Dilemmas of Modern Orthodoxy: Sociological and Philosophical, Judaism, Vol 42, No. 1, Winter 1993.
"Studying Israeli Society and Culture," in Jack Wertheimer, ed., The Modern Jewish Experience, New York, New York University Press, 1993.
"Religious Culture and Religio-Politics in Israel," in Jack Wertheimer, ed., The Modern Jewish Experience, New York, New York University Press, 1993.
"Heightening Ideology, Diminishing Community: A Review Essay." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol 12, No. 2, Winter 1994.
"Religious and Ethnic Patterns of American Jewish Baby Boomers," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 33, No. 1, March 1994.
"America's Jews: Ideology of Cultural Pluralism/Reality of Melting Pot. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, Spring 1994.
"Families of American Jewish Baby Boomers: Implications for Jewish Family Policy," in Steven Bayme and Gladys Rosen, eds., The Jewish Family and Jewish Continuity: Social Theory and Policy Perspectives, New York and Hoboken, American Jewish Committee and Ktav, 1994.
"Is Fundamentalism Inherent to Jewish Traditionalism?," Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Vol 13, No. 3, Spring 1995.
Guest Editor, Contemporary Jewry, Vol 16, 1995.
"In the End Is It Ideology?: Religio-Cultural and Structural Factors in American Aliya," Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 16, 1995.
"The Myth of Transformation: A Review-Essay," Contemporary Jewry, Vol 16, 1995.
"Implications of the Rabin Assassination for Jewish Education: Sociological Perspectives," Journalof Jewish Education, Vol.62, No. 2, Spring 1996.
More than 20 entries in the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, New York, Macmillan, 1996.
"Weakening Ties: The Changing Relationship of American Jewish Baby Boomers and Israel," in Allon Gal, ed., Envisioning Israel: The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jewry. Jerusalem, Magnes Press, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1996. Hebrew version, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press and Hassifriya Hazionit, 1999.
"Is Jewish Identity the Real Issue," in David Zisenwine, ed., Making a Difference: Jewish Identity and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, 1997.
"Critical Sociology and the End of Ideology in Israel," Israel Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1997.
"Change in the Wind on Intermarriage," The Jewish Week, August 29, 1997.
"The Haredization of American Orthodox Jewry," Jerusalem Letter/Viewpoints, No. 376, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 15 February 1998. Translated into French as "L'irrésistible ascension des ultras au sein de l'orthodoxie juive américaine," in Pards 25,1998.
"American Aliya: Religious, Cultural and Social Characteristics," [Hebrew] in Dvora Hacohen, ed., Mass Migration or Selective Migration [Hebrew], Jerusalem, Mercaz Zalman Shazar, 1998.
"Congregation, Community, and Continuity: Denominational Affiliation as an Indicator of Jewish Identity" [in Hebrew], Gesher: Journal of Jewish Affairs [Hebrew] 44 (#138), Winter 1998.
"The Sociohistorical Background and Development of America's Jews," in Roberta Rosenberg Farber and Chaim I. Waxman, eds., Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader. Hanover: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 1999.
"Center and Periphery: Israel in American Jewish Life," in Roberta Rosenberg Farber and Chaim I. Waxman, eds., Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader. Hanover: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 1999.
"Postmodernity and the Jews: Identity, Identification, and Community," with Roberta Rosenberg Farber, in Roberta Rosenberg Farber and Chaim I. Waxman, eds., Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader. Hanover: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 1999.
"Language and Identity Among America’s Jews," in David Zisenwine and David Schers, eds., Present and Future: Jewish Culture, Identity and Language. Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University, School of Education, 1999.
"The 'Americanization' of Israel: A Demographic, Cultural and Political Evaluation" (with Uzi Rebhun), Israel Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2000.
"Religio-Politics and Social Unity in Israel: Israel's Religious Parties," in Robert O. Freedman, ed., Israel's First Fifty Years. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.
"The Limited Impact of the Six-Day War on America's Jews," in Eli Lederhendler, ed., The Six-Day War and World Jewry. Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 2000.
"Congregation, Community, and Continuity: Denominational Affiliation as an Indicator of Jewish Identity," in Sergio DellaPergola and Judith Even, eds., Papers in Jewish Demography 1997 (Jewish Population Studies 29).. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, 2001.
"Jewish Education Does Matter," in David Zisenwine, ed., Knowing What Jewish Culture, Identity and Language [Studies in Culture, Identity and Community], Tel Aviv University, School of Education, 2003
"American Immigrants: A Blessing Not a Curse" (with Uzi Rebhun), Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2002
"The American Mizrachi Organization, American Orthodoxy, and the American Jewish Community," Hadoar, Vol. 82, No. 1, Sept. 2002 (Hebrew).
Four entries in Paul A. Djupe and Laura R. Olson, eds., Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics. New York: Facts on File, 2003.
"What We Don’t Know About the Judaism of America’s Jews," Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 23, 2002.
"Identity and Identification of Jewish Baby Boomers," in Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yosef Gorny and Yacov Ro'i, Eds., Contemporary Jewries: Convergence and Divergence [Jewish Identities in a Changing World, Vol. 2] Leiden: Brill, 2003.
"Israel in the Early Twenty-first Century: Challenging Internal and Global Developments," with Uzi Rebhun, Israel Affairs, Vol. 9, No. 4, Summer 2003.
"Religion in the Israeli Public Square," in Uzi Rebhun and Chaim I. Waxman, Eds, Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns. Hanover and London: University Press of New England/Brandeis University Press, 2003.
"Challenges for the 21st Century," (with Uzi Rebhun), in Uzi Rebhun and Chaim I. Waxman, Eds, Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns. Hanover and London: University Press of New England/Brandeis University Press, 2003.
“From Institutional Decay to Primary Day: American Orthodox Jewry Since World War II,” American Jewish History Vol. 91, Nos:3-4, Sept-Dec 2003.
“American Modern Orthodoxy: Confronting Cultural Challenges,” Edah Journal, Vol.4, No. 1, May 2004 (Iyar 5764).
34 entries in the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa, 2nd Ed., Phillip Mattar, Ed. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.
"The Enduring Significance of Denomination" [Hebrew], Gesher: Journal of Jewish Affairs 50, No. 150, Winter 2004.
"American Jewry," in Nicholas de Lange and Miri Freud-Kandel, Eds., Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
"Critical Theory, Post-Zionism, and Israeli Sociology," Rutgers Student Journal of Israel Affairs, Issue 2, Spring 2005.
“Religion, Spirituality, and the Future of American Judaism,” in Adam Mintz and Lawrence Schiffman, eds., Jewish Spirituality and Divine Law. Jersey City, NJ and New York: Ktav/Yeshiva University Press, 2005.
"The Sociology of Psika (Halakhic Ruling): An Example from American Jewry" [Hebrew], in Eliezer Don Yehiya, ed., Between Tradition and Innovation: Studies in Judaism, Zionism, and the State of Israel [Hebrew]. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2005.
“Patterns of American Jewish Religious Behavior,” in Dana Evan Kaplan, ed., The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism. New York and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
"Winners and Losers in Denominational Memberships in the United States," Changing Jewish Communities, No. 1, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, October 16, 2005.
"The Transatlantic Commuter -- Living in Israel, Working in the States," (with Dodi Tobin), Jewish Action, Vol. 66,No. 2, Winter 2005.
“Reb David — Ha-Rav David Lifshitz: An Intimate Portrait” and “Nostalgia Isn’t What it Used to Be: Reflections on Yeshiva College and Modern Orthodoxy,” in Zev Nagel and Menachem Butler, eds., My Yeshiva College: 75 Years of Memories. New York: Yashar Books, 2006.
“Time-sharing Aliyah” (with Sergio DellaPergola), Haaretz, Jan. 26, 2007.
“The Role and Authority of the Rabbi in American Society,” in Suzanne Last Stone, ed., Rabbinic and Lay Communal Authority. Jersey City, NJ and New York: Ktav/Yeshiva University Press, 2007.