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Demographic Trends among the Jews of the Former Soviet Union
Author(s): Tolts, Mark
Date: 2003
Topics: Main Topic: Demography and Migration, Demography, Aliyah, Emigration, Censuses
Abstract: This analysis has revealed the important role of the negative vital balance in Jewish demographic decline in the Russian Federation and the FSU as a whole (see Tables 5 and 6). At the same time, the birth dynamics show that the Jews and their relatives who emigrated to Israel escaped the dramatic fertility reduction which was characteristic of the FSU population as a whole and the Jews in particula
Aliya from the Russian Federation: An Analysis of Recent Data
Author(s): Tolts, Mark
Date: 2002
Topics: Main Topic: Demography and Migration, Aliyah, Emigration, Economy, Poverty
Abstract: Emigration from the Russian Federation to Israel is examined by region of origin and in relation to the socioeconomic situation. Detailed monthly data on migration in the period before and after the financial crash of 1998 are discussed. Finally, the severe vital crisis of Russia’s Jewry and its consequences for the prospects of emigration to Israel are studied.
Demography: Soviet Union, the Russian Federation and other Successor States
Author(s): Tolts, Mark
Date: 2009
Topics: Main Topic: Demography and Migration, Jewish Women, Demography, Soviet Jewry, Censuses, Ageing and the Elderly, Emigration, Divorce, Marriage
Post-Soviet Jewish Demographic Dynamics: An Analysis of Recent Data [Revised as of February 18, 2018]
Author(s): Tolts, Mark
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Demography and Migration, Demography, Censuses, Ageing and the Elderly, Aliyah, Emigration
Abstract: 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.
Sources for the Demographic Study of the Jews in the Former Soviet Union
Author(s): Tolts, Mark
Editor(s): Rebhun, Uzi
Date: 2014
Topics: Demography, Bibliography and Literature Reviews, Main Topic: Demography and Migration, Censuses, Aliyah, Migration, Soviet Jewry
Abstract: The article shows that demographic study of the Jews in the Former Soviet Union has a long and well established tradition based on the very rich amount of data: i.e., vital and migration statistics, and census results. The analysis started from an overview of the Tsarist and Soviet statistical legacies. However, most of the attention is focused on findings of the last quarter century. The study examines both the role of the Soviet internal passport which, because it listed ethnicity, was the basis for Jewish statistics, and the consequences of the elimination of compulsory ethnic identification in the post-Soviet Slavic countries.