American Jewish Year Book 1991 Volume 91

The 1991 American Jewish Year Book, the 91st in the series, continues to offer a unique chronicle of developments in areas of concern to Jews around the world. Recent trends in American Jewish intellectual and cultural life are the focus of three special articles: “Jewish Theology in North America: Notes on Two Decades,” by Arnold Eisen; “American Jewish Fiction Turns Inward, 1960-1990,” by Sylvia Barack Fishman; and “American Jewish Museums: Trends and Issues,” by Ruth R. Seldin. Regular articles covering Jewish life in the United States are “Intergroup Relations,” by Earl Raab and Douglas Kahn; “The United States, Israel, and the Middle East,” by Kenneth Jacobson; and “Jewish Communal Affairs,” by Lawrence Grossman. Jewish life around the world is reported on in a series of articles about Israel, Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Austria, West Germany, East Germany, the Soviet Union, and various countries of Eastern Europe. This year's Israel section includes a separate article on Israeli culture. Updated estimates for the U.S. Jewish population are provided by Barry Kosmin and Jeffrey Scheck-ner and for the world Jewish population by U.O. Schmelz and Sergio DellaPergola. Both articles discuss preliminary results of the 1990 U.S. National Jewish Population Survey. Carefully compiled directories of national Jewish organizations, periodicals, and federations and welfare funds, as well as religious calendars and obituary notices, round out this highly regarded reference work.