jpr / Planning for Jewish Communities: report No.4 - 2003

The Jews of Leeds in 2001:
portrait of a community

Stanley Waterman


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Introduction
In 1997 the Institute for Jewish Policy Research
(JPR) embarked on a major and innovative research project concerning the Jewish voluntary sector (JVS)...
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1 Why choose Leeds?
Leeds exemplifies those more substantial Jewish
communities in the United Kingdom outside
Greater London...
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2 Survey findings
The first three questions on the questionnaire were general ones. Two of these were designed to
emphasize, at the outset, the fact that the survey
was principally concerned with respondents'
Jewishness and knowledge of Jewish services...
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3 Socio-economic profile of the survey and Census populations
Demographic characteristics
Gender
There were 711 male and 721 female respondents to the survey questionnaire, representing a male to female ratio of 49.7:50.3 (the information was missing on 4 per cent of questionnaires)...

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4 Conclusions
This short study based on the Leeds Jewish
community survey has provided the opportunity
for an invaluable exercise in comparative social research...

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Appendix: The JPR Leeds survey sample
After several decades of residential relocation within Leeds, the Jewish community is still spatially compact.

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Front and back cover
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