...individual.

Daniel J. Elazar, Community and Policy: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996), 71--77.

...America.

Mary C. Waters, Ethnic Options (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).

...similar.

Waters, 90--91.

...symbolic.

For a full discussion of the concept of symbolic ethnicity, see Herbert Gans, ``Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups in America,'' Ethnic and Racial Studies 2 no. 1 (1979).

...child-centered).

Summarized in Marshall Sklare, America's Jews (New York, Random House, 1971). 114--117.