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Florence G. Heller - JCC Association Research Center

Professor Steven M. Cohen
Director, Florence G. Heller - JCC Association Research Center

STEVEN M. COHEN, a sociologist of American Jewry, is Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at HUC-JIR and Director of the Florence G. Heller / JCCA Research Center. In 1992 he made aliya and taught for 14 years at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previously, he served as Professor of Sociology at Queens College, as well as a visiting professor at Yale, Brandeis, and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

He has written or edited a dozen books and scores of scholarly articles and reports on such issues as Jewish community, Jewish identity, and Jewish education. With Arnold Eisen, he wrote, The Jew Within: Self, Family and Community in America . Steven is also the co-author with Charles Liebman of Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experiences , as well as Cosmopolitans and Parochials: Modern Orthodox Jews in America , with Samuel Heilman. His earlier books include American Modernity & Jewish Identity, and American Assimilation or Jewish Revival? He also co-authored books on the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, and on Jewish identities of Great Britain. His current research interests extend to emerging forms of Jewish community organizing among younger Jews in the United States.

His other positions include serving research consultant to the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and to the Charles H. Revson Foundation.

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