Chaim I. Waxman

Chaim Isaac Waxman (born February 26, 1941 ) is an American sociologist.

Waxman studied Jewish philosophy , sociology and history at Yeshiva University and sociology at the New School for Social Research , where he earned his MA in 1965 and his PhD in 1974. From 1978 to 2006 he taught at Rutgers University , New Brunswick / New Jersey, most recently as professor of sociology and Jewish studies. He retired in 2006 and lives in Jerusalem, where he was a Senior Fellow at the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute until 2009 .

His main areas of work are the sociology of religion and ethnicity with a focus on the group of Jews in the USA and Israel.

Fonts (selection)

as an author

• America's Jews in Transition . Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1983, ISBN 0-87722-321-1 .
• American aliya. Portrait of an innovative migration movement . University Press, Wayne, Mich. 1989, ISBN 0-8143-1936-X .
• Historical dictionary of zionism . Fitzroy Dearborn Publ., Chicago 2000, ISBN 1-57958-286-9 (with Rafael Medoff).
• Israel as a religious reality . Aronson Books, Northvale, NJ 1994, ISBN 1-56821-077-9 .
• The Stigma of Poverty. A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies . 2nd edition, Pergamon Press, New York 1983, ISBN 0-08-029407-3 .

as editor

• The End of Ideology Debate . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1969.
• Jews in America. A Contemporary Reader . Brandeis University Press, Hanover, NH 1999, ISBN 0-87451-899-7 (together with Roberta Rosenberg Farber).
• Jews in Israel. Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns . Brandeis University Press, Hanover, NH 2004, ISBN 1-58465-327-2 (together with Uzi Rebhun).
• The Palestinians. People, History, Politics . Transaction Books, New Brunswick 1975, ISBN 0-87855-112-3 (with Michael Curtis and Joseph Neyer).
• Poverty. Power and Politics . Grosset and Dunlap, New York 1968.

Web links

• Homepage Waxman