I was dismayed when I read the first posting - I thought there was an error.
Some 40 years ago, Commentary magazine, I believe, ran a profile of American Jewry, and one of the stats cited then was that Jews accounted for some 20% of the books bought in the U.S. Not bad for 3% of the total population. What did they base this on? Perhaps on some study done by the American Jewish Committee? That was then. I have no idea what the number would be today. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
