Tag: Demography

  • How Israel Defied the Second Demographic Transition—Thus Far

    How Israel Defied the Second Demographic Transition—Thus Far

    Israel’s extreme demographic exceptionalism can be summarized in the following figure: Each point in the chart represents one of the OECD countries, a group commonly used as a reference for Israel in socio-economic comparisons. Along the horizontal axis, the countries are ordered by their total fertility rate (TFR) in 1960. The TFR is the standard…

  • Pogroms, Networks, and Migration: The Jewish Migration from the Russian Empire to the United States 1881–1914

    Pogroms, Networks, and Migration: The Jewish Migration from the Russian Empire to the United States 1881–1914

    The migration of one and a half million Jews from the Russian Empire to the United States during the years 1881–1914 is commonly linked to the occurrence of pogroms, eruptions of anti-Jewish mob violence, that took place mainly in two waves in 1881–1882 and in 1903–1906. Although the common perception that pogroms were a major…

  • A New Map of Jewish Communities in the Russian Empire

    A New Map of Jewish Communities in the Russian Empire

    This map shows the precise place of residence of over 4.3 million Jews at the time of the Russian census of 1897. The census enumerated over 5 million Jews living in the Pale of Settlement, the 25 western provinces of the Russian Empire in which Jews were generally free to reside. Together with the Jewish…