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Using the NJPS 2000 and other Jewish population studies, the Jewish identity of mixed-parentage and Jewish parentage respondents is compared. In the abstract respondents of mixedparentage are oriented to the Jewish people, but at a concrete level their communal ties are tenuous and their children’s Jewish identity is doubtful.
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Phillips, B. Assimilation, transformation, and the long range impact of intermarriage. Cont Jewry 25, 50–84 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02965420
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