Language:
English
Pages:
293 S.
Year of publication:
1981
Series Statement:
Studies in Judaism in modern times 1
Series Statement:
Studies in Judaism in modern times
DDC:
305.8/924
Keywords:
Jews
;
Statistics, Vital
;
Fertility, Human
;
Jews
;
Social conditions
Description / Table of Contents:
An historical perspective on eighteenth century Jewish family households in Eastern Europe / Andrejs Plakans and Joel M. Halpern - Correlates, causes, and consequences of Jewish fertility in the USSR / Zvi Gitelman - The fertility of modern Polish Jewry / Lucjan Dobroszycki - Jewish fertility in nineteenth century France / Paula Hyman - Voluntary and involuntary limitation of fertility in nineteenth century Bavarian Jewry / Steven M. Lowenstein - Some demographic characteristics of village Jews in Germany / Alice Goldstein - The demography of Jews in early America / Robert Cohen - Jewish fertility in contemporary America / Sidney Goldstein - Why contemporary American Jews want small families / Steven Martin Cohen and Paul Ritterband - Patterns of Jewish fertility in Israel / Calvin Goldscheider and Dov Friedlander - The politics of fertility policy in Israel / Gary S. Schiff
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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