Modern Jewish fertility
By: edited by Paul Ritterband.
Contributors: Ritterband, Paul.
Series: Studies in Judaism in modern times ;; v. 1
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Jews -- Statistics, Vital.; Fertility, Human.; Jews -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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.