Demographic Avant-Garde
Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah
9786155225338
252 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
This book studies the unique demographic behavior of Jews in Bohemia (the historic part of the Czech Republic), starting from a moment in history when industrialization in Central Europe was still far away in the future, and when Jews were still living legally restricted lives in ghettos. Very early on, however, from the 18th century onwards, Jews developed patterns of decreasing mortality and fertility that was not observed among the gentile majority in Bohemia; patterns which established them as a demographic avant-garde population in all of Europe.Author Bio
Jana Vobecká holds a PhD in demography from the University of Burgundy in Dijon and Charles University in Prague. She is a Researcher in social demography at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences) and at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
