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Bruce Phillips, Ph.D.

Professor of Jewish Communal Service

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school/program: Louchheim School for Judaic Studies, Rabbinical School (US)
academic field: Contemporary Jewish Studies, Israel Studies
campus: Los Angeles

Bruce A. Phillips is Professor of Sociology and Jewish Communal Studies at 51黑料网, and University Fellow at Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. He is one of the leading researchers in the demography and sociology of American Jewry and is the 2017 recipient of the Marshall Sklare award for his contributions to this field. He is the leading researcher on Jewish interfaith marriage in the United States, having published influential studies over the past three decades, including 鈥淚ntermarriage in the 21st Century: New Perspectives鈥 in the American Jewish Year Book. His current research focuses on Jewish adults who grew up in interfaith homes and re-examining Jewish suburbanization.

Intermarriage

听鈥淣ew demographic perspectives on studying intermarriage in the United States.鈥 Contemporary Jewry 33:1-2, April-July 2013.

听鈥淚ntermarriage in the Twenty-First Century: New Perspectives鈥 in Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin (eds.). American Jewish Year Book 2017, pp. 31-119.

听鈥淲hy intermarried couples avoid Jewish neighborhoods: The Case of Chicago鈥 in Uzi Rebhun and Sergio DellaPergola (eds.). Jewish Population and Identity: Concept and Reality. Cham Switzerland: Springer.) 2018.

Interfaith Marriage and American Jews, Springer (forthcoming, 2023) with co-Author Arnold Dashefsky.

Re-Examining Intermarriage. Brookline MA. Wilstein Institute for Jewish Policy Studies. 1996.

听鈥淐hildren of Intermarriage: How ‘Jewish’?鈥 Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century. P. Medding.(ed). New York, Oxford University Press. 1998.

鈥淐atholic (and Protestant) Israel: The Permutations of Denominational Differences and Identities in Mixed Families鈥 in Eli Lederhendler (ed.) Studies in Contemporary Jewry Annual, Vol. XXI赂 Oxford University Press. 2005.

听鈥淎ssimilation, Transformation, and the Long-Range Impact of Intermarriage.鈥澛 Contemporary Jewry. Vol. 25 pp 50-74. 2005.

Los Angeles Jewry and other Urban/Suburban Research

“Los Angeles Jewry:聽 A Demographic Profile,” American Jewish Yearbook, Vol 86.

听鈥淔aultlines: The Seven Socio-Ecologies of Jewish Los Angeles.鈥in The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review, Vol. 5. B. Zuckerman and J. Schoenberg (eds), Purdue University Press. 2007.

听鈥淣ot Quite White: The Emergence of Jewish 鈥楨thnoburbs鈥 in Los Angeles, 1920-2010. American Jewish History, Volume 100, Number 1, January 2016, pp. 73-104.

听鈥The Legacy of Religious Diversity in Los Angeles and Southern California,鈥 in Richard Flory and Diane Winston (eds.) Southern California Religion Routledge. 2021.

听鈥淐omplicating Whiteness: Jews of Color in the American West鈥 in.聽 Ellen Eisenberg (ed.) Jews as Whites, Jews as Others: Relational Identities in the American West. Waltham MA. Brandeis University Press. 2022.

鈥淲hen Transnational is Local: Jewish Ethnoburbs.鈥 Contemporary Jewry April 2022.聽

Intermarriage

Los Angeles Jewish history

Jews of Color

Future of Judaism in America

Blacks and Jews

Intermarriage

American Jews in the 21st Century

B.A., Brandeis University

M.A., UCLA

Ph.D., UCLA