Modern Jewish Fertility

Ritterband, Paul (editor). Modern Jewish Fertility. Leiden: Brill, 1981. First edition. Octavo. (12), 293, (1)pp. Index. Forest green cloth stamped in gilt, publisher’s device on front cover. An ex-private library copy with a donation bookplate on front pastedown and a library pocket on rear pastedown, otherwise a fine copy without any other markings.

“This volume presents a set of papers dealing with the demographic transition of the Jewish people in seven countries from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries….” (Preface)

Contents: An historical perspective on eighteenth century Jewish family households in Eastern Europe / Andrejs Plakans and Joel M. Halpern — Correlates, causes, and consequences of Jewish fertility in the USSR / Zvi Gitelman — The fertility of modern Polish Jewry / Lucjan Dobroszycki — Jewish fertility in nineteenth century France / Paula Hyman — Voluntary and involuntary limitation of fertility in nineteenth century Bavarian Jewry / Steven M. Lowenstein — Some demographic characteristics of village Jews in Germany / Alice Goldstein — The demography of Jews in early America / Robert Cohen — Jewish fertility in contemporary America / Sidney Goldstein — Why contemporary American Jews want small families / Steven Martin Cohen and Paul Ritterband — Patterns of Jewish fertility in Israel / Calvin Goldscheider and Dov Friedlander — The politics of fertility policy in Israel / Gary S. Schiff.

Volume 1 of the Brill series, “Studies of Judaism in Modern Times” edited by Jacob Neusner.
Note: this 10 volume series is no longer published or listed by E. J. Brill. (ISSN: 0169-9660) (53346) $65