Visit Jewish Demography
Demography is a fundamental existential process present in the daily
experience of every society at the individual and collective levels. More
than once throughout history, the existence of the Jews was radically
modified by events that embedded elements of demographic change.
This was the case with the repeated instances of massive coerced and
voluntary migrations and relocation of Jews across seas and continents; the
major increase in Jewish population size - mostly in Eastern Europe - from
the late middle ages to the early decades of the 20th century; the massive
destruction of Jewish communities through the Shoah; and the emergence
of contemporary America and Israel as major Jewish population centers.
In each instance, demographic change itself was not only the dependent
variable but also played an important independent role in shaping those
historic transformations.
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