Tag: Demography
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How Israel Defied the Second Demographic Transition—Thus Far
Israel’s extreme demographic exceptionalism can be summarized in the following figure: A much expanded version of this post was published on Tablet Magazine as The Israel Exception: Why Israelis continue to have babies and defy the collapse in fertility that has swept Western societies (Sep. 24, 2026). Each point in the chart represents one of…
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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…
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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…
