Post-Soviet Jewish Demographic Dynamics: An Analysis of Recent Data [Revised as of February 18, 2018]
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Results of the recent censuses of the FSU countries clearly demonstrated that Jewish demographic decline has transpired rather quickly in most of them. Our analysis shows that aging reached a very advanced level among all post-Soviet Jews, with the exception of those in Azerbaijan. Especially high indicators of aging were found in Belarus and St. Petersburg. Based on the data of Russian censuses we also found that low fertility persisted among the Jewish population. Germany and the USA ceased to be a major destination for ex-Soviet Jewish emigration as immigration rules became more stringent in these countries. At the same time, a severe economic crisis led to a great increase in emigration from Russia and Ukraine to Israel in recent years, whereas return migration, as seen in Russian data, reached its lowest level.
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Former Soviet Union (FSU) Russia Azerbaijan Ukraine Belarus Uzbekistan Moldova Georgia Latvia Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan Tajikistan Lithuania Turkmenistan Estonia Armenia
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Revised version of paper presented at the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem, July
28 – August 1, 2013)
28 – August 1, 2013)
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PDF (via academia.edu), Post-Soviet Jewish Demographic Dynamics: An Analysis of Recent Data [Revised as of February 18, 2018]
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Post-Soviet Jewish Demographic Dynamics: An Analysis of Recent Data [Revised as of February 18, 2018]. 2018: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-fsu107
