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Publication Date: January 1989
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Jewry
Author(s): Uziel O. Schmelz
Research Area: Population and demographics
Keywords: Jewish Identification; Fertility; Demography
Type: Report
Coverage: Israel
Abstract:
This article suggests that it is of demographic significance whether Jews live in Israel or the Diaspora. Israel's Jews are not exposed to mixed marriages and losses due to assimilation, and immigrants to Israel from Europe and America have attained a fertility level that much surpasses that in the Diaspora. The author argues that in the demographic balance sheet of World Jewry, Israel's natural increase counteracts the diminution of the Diaspora.
In World Jewish population: trends and policies, edited by Sergio DellaPergola and Leah Cohen. Jerusalem, Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics, 1992, pp.:37-52.