2008-09 Jewish population survey : preliminary findings : Melbourne & Sydney : Gen08

"This report presents the preliminary findings for Melbourne and Sydney of the Gen08 Jewish population survey which was conducted from September 2008 to April 2009 in Australia and New Zealand ... it considers six thematic areas: sense of identity, sense of community, including connectedness and disconnectedness; perceptions and experiences of antisemitism; attitudes to Israel; education; and life satisfaction. It then considers the impact, necessarily briefly, of two cross-cutting variables: patterns of religious (and non-religious) identification with birthplace, with reference to three major immigrant groups, most of whose members arrived over the last three decades. It then considers issues related to the incidence of poverty. The third section looks at the key findings in the context of change over time, benchmarking findings against early survey work conducted in Melbourne, and compares the findings for Melbourne and Sydney with some major Jewish population centres in the Diaspora."--Introduction, p. 3.… (more)