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Modern Jewish fertility / edited by Paul Ritterband.
LIBRA DS143 .M6
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in Judaism in modern times ; v. 1.
- Studies in Judaism in modern times ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Statistics, Vital.
- Jews.
- Fertility, Human.
- Jews--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 293 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 1981.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC:
- 7845061
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