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  • 1
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2020
    Titel der Quelle: Studia Judaica
    Angaben zur Quelle: 23,2 (2020) 235-280
    Keywords: Jews Registers ; Jews Population ; Jews History 19th century ; Jews History 20th century
    Abstract: Vital records are one of the main sources providing insight into the demographic past. For most of the nineteenth century, however, the degree of under-registration of vital events among Jews was much higher than among non-Jews. These omissions undermine the credibility of demographic data on fertility and mortality published in contemporary statistical yearbooks. The analysis shows that the male-to-female ratio at birth aggregated on a regional level reveals the highest under-registration among Jews in the Russian Empire, including Congress Poland, until World War I. On the other hand, Prussian registration covers the Jewish population most completely and already in the 1820s shows no signs of under-registration. Despite the general low quality of registration systems, records from selected individual towns still pass quality tests. Top-down imposition of the registration duties, corporatism, defective legal regulations, bureaucratic inefficiency and personal characteristics of civil registrars were the main reasons for under-registration.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789004518575
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 226 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Studia judaeoslavica volume14
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jankowski, Tomasz M. Demography of a shtetl
    Keywords: Jews History 19th century ; Jews History 20th century ; Jews History ; History, Modern ; History ; Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland) Ethnic relations
    Abstract: "This quantitative study of Piotrków Trybunalski traces the evolution of the population in the typical early modern semi-agrarian town in which the majority of activity was concentrated in the Jewish suburbs into a provincial capital in Congress Poland. Through the use of longitudinal aggregations and family reconstruction it explores fertility, mortality, and marriage patterns from the early nineteenth century, when civil records were introduced, until the Holocaust, revealing key differences as well as striking similarities between local Jews and non-Jews. The example of Piotrków set in a broader European context highlights variations in the pre-transitional demography of Ashkenazi Jewry and lack of universal model describing the "traditional" or "eastern European" Jewish family"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Quality of Vital Registration -- The Jewish Town of Piotrków -- Marriage and Household Formation -- Births and Fertility -- Deaths and Mortality.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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