Calvin Goldscheider
Ungerleider Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies
Brown University and American University

Calvin Goldscheider is Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies Emeritus and Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Brown University. He is currently a Scholar in Residence in Israel Studies and Jewish Studies at American University, Washington DC. He was Professor of Sociology and Demography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He was a Visiting Professor at Brandeis University and the Demography Unit at the University of Stockholm, Sweden under a Fulbright Award. He graduated with Honors from Yeshiva University in New York and received his MA and Ph.D. from Brown University. He was awarded the Marshall Sklare Award of the Association of Jewish Studies (2001) for distinguished contributions to Jewish studies.

 

Selected Publications

Jewish Americans: Three Generations in a Jewish Community, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968 (with Sidney Goldstein).

The Transformation of the Jews, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984 (with Alan Zuckerman). .

Jewish Continuity and Change: Emerging Patterns in America, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Cultures in Conflict: The Arab-Israeli Conflict. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Studying the Jewish Future, Seattle: University of Washington Press, Stroum Lecture Series, 2004.

Israeli Society in the Twenty First Century: Immigration, Inequality and Religious Conflict, Brandeis University Press, 2015