The Demographic Crisis of Diaspora Jewry (background paper no. 4)


 

Publication Date: January 1979

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Author(s): Roberto Bachi

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Demography; World Jews; Jewish identification

Type: Report

Abstract:

The article discusses the 'demographic crisis' of the Jewish Diaspora population. The author tries to identify among other factors, three aspects which are directly or indirectly with assimilatory processes: The estrangement of the Jews from traditional nuptial and fertility habits; mixed marriages; numerical losses to Jewish population due to formal and informal withdrawal from Judaism. Since the demographic crisis has its roots in long-range developments. In order clarify its factors, meaning and future implications, the author outlines in the article the numerical evolution of the Jewish world population in the 19th and 20th centuries.