Sergio DellaPergola, Professor, The Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations (Emeritus), The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Jews in Central-Western Europe were among the extraordinary forerunners of a demographic transition from high to low levels of deaths and births that radically changed the known models of population growth, size and structure. These selective new patterns of population survival and reproduction gradually expanded to the rest of European societies, and eventually to the near totality of humankind. This study by Jana Vobecka skillfully explores how and why it all began in Bohemia, and delineates the cultural, political, social and economic determinants and consequences of a demographic transformation that greatly affected Jewish history and European society."
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Author: 
Jana Vobecka
ISBN: 
978-615-5225-33-8
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