ABSTRACT
The small-town Jews studied in 1958 seemed caught in a peculiar dilemma. The projected follow-up study of the children of the 1958 respondents provided a chance to become reacquainted with participants in the original study. The median age of the children of the small-town Jews was 32 at the time of the follow-up study. For the first part of the study, a new questionnaire was designed, incorporating a number of questions from the old schedule, measuring satisfaction with village life, group membership, socioeconomic levels, as well as religious attitudes and practices. Some new questions were also included to assess parental transmission of religious traditions and values to children. The questionnaire designed for the children who grew up in small towns included many questions asked of their parents in 1958 and 1976—about education, socioeconomics, satisfaction with community, as well as those measuring religious attitudes and observances.
