The Berman Jewish DataBank, founded as the North American Jewish Data Bank, is the central online source for social scientific studies of North American Jewry and world Jewish populations and communities. The DataBank's primary functions are to acquire and archive materials from quantitative studies of North American Jews, including data sets and reports, and to encourage and aid the production and utilization of quantitative research on North American Jews.
The DataBank maintains partnerships with the
Berman Jewish Policy Archive
The Berman Jewish Policy Archive (BJPA), housed at thGraduate School of Education at Stanford Universityis a centralized electronic database of Jewish communal policy research. Its collection contains more than 20,000 documents, with holdings spa ...
and the
University of Connecticut’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life.
The DataBank holds more than 375 surveys and studies of North American Jews, including more than 200 local community studies usually commissioned by local
Jewish federations.
Funding for the DataBank comes from an endowment provided by the
Mandell and Madeleine Berman Foundation The Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation was founded by Mandell L. Berman as a vehicle for his charitable giving. The foundation supports research and study of the American Jewish community.Snyder, Tamar"A Philanthropist Crunches The Numbe ...
and from
The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), and management is provided by JFNA. The DataBank's professional staff includes Laurence Kotler-Berkowtiz, Director of the Berman Jewish DataBank;
Ron Miller, Senior Research Consultant at the Berman Jewish DataBank; and
Arnold Dashefsky, Director Emeritus and Senior Academic Consultant of the Berman Jewish DataBank.
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The Berman Jewish DataBank was founded as the North American Jewish Data Bank in 1986 and operated under that name until July 2013. Funded throughout that time by the Berman Foundation under an arrangement with the Jewish Federation system, the North American Jewish Data Bank was located at the City University of New York from 1986 until 2002, at Brandeis University (2003–04) and the University of Connecticut (2004-2013) before moving to JFNA and changing names as of July 2013.
See also
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Arnold Dashefsky, Director Emeritus
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Ron Miller, Senior Research Consultant
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Mandell L. Berman
Mandell "Bill" Berman (1917–2016) was the businessman (housing construction industry) and philanthropist behind the Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation,McGinity, KerenAssociation for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Lifetime A ...
, founder of the
Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation The Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation was founded by Mandell L. Berman as a vehicle for his charitable giving. The foundation supports research and study of the American Jewish community.Snyder, Tamar"A Philanthropist Crunches The Numbe ...
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The Jewish Federations of North America
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External links
*{{Official website
*http://www.bjpa.org/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20130921185835/http://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/research.html
*https://web.archive.org/web/20150420011832/http://databib.org/repository/343
*https://web.archive.org/web/20150907210804/https://www.lib.umn.edu/indexes/moreinfo?id=13726
*https://web.archive.org/web/20130702162135/https://libraries.ucsd.edu/info/resources/north-american-jewish-data-bank
*http://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases/north-american-jewish-data-bank
*http://bcldatabases.blogspot.com/2010/09/home-north-american-jewish-data-bank.html
Jewish society
Demographics of North America
University of Connecticut
Online archives of the United States
Jews and Judaism in the United States
Social sciences literature
Sociology of religion