Editing Jewish identity (section)

==In contemporary sociology==
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{{See also|Sociology of Jewry}}
Jewish identity began to gain the attention of Jewish sociologists in the United States with the publication of [[Marshall Sklare]]'s "Lakeville studies".<ref>Sklare, Marshall, Joseph Greenblum, and Benjamin Bernard Ringer. The Lakeville Studies. Under the Dir. of Marshall Sklare. Basic books, 1967.</ref> Among other topics explored in the studies was Sklare's notion of a "good Jew".<ref>Sklare, Marshall. "The Image of the Good Jew in Lakeville." Observing America’s Jews. Brandeis University Press, 1993.</ref> The "good Jew" was essentially an idealized form of Jewish identity as expressed by the Lakeville respondents. Today, sociological measurements of Jewish identity have become the concern of the Jewish Federations who have sponsored numerous community studies across the U.S.;<ref>Sheskin, Ira M. "Comparisons between local Jewish community studies and the 2000–01 National Jewish Population Survey." ''[[Contemporary Jewry]]'' 25, no. 1 (2005): 158-192.</ref> policy decisions (in areas such as funding, programming, etc.) have been shaped in part due to studies on Jewish identity.