Abstract
The Berman Award honors the memory of a great philanthropist who championed development of systematic data about American Jewry. Our honorees – Joseph Neubauer, Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer and Alan Cooperman – are owed a debt of gratitude for their support and leadership of the Pew Research Center's studies of US Jewry. The studies have provided data that has helped to create a new narrative of American Jewish life. It is a complex narrative that has fostered discourse about it means to be a Jewish American.