William Helmreich (August 25, 1945 – March 28, 2020) was a Swiss-born American professor of sociology at the City College of New York Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
[2][3][4] Helmreich was a distinguished professor at the City University of New York,[4] who specialized in race and ethnic relations, religion, immigration, risk behavior, the sociology of New York City, urban sociology, consumer behavior, and market research.
[7] In 1946, he was brought to the US as an infant,[8][3] and grew up in New York City on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
[13][14][15] Helmreich revised his 1982 The World of the Yeshiva 18 years later[1] by comparing sociological changes "among the strictly Orthodox" since his 1980 research.
Two areas about the new edition highlighted by The New York Times are the doubling in those doing full-time "collegiate and graduate"-level religious studies and population growth.