1st Edition
Demographic Avant-Garde Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah
By Jana Vobecká
Copyright 2013
252 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
List of Tables, List of Figures, Preface and Acknowledgements, Part 1. The Concept of a Demographic Avant-Garde: Three Keys, Part 2. Jewish Population Development in Bohemia: Trends and Transitions from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century, Part 3. Social and Economic Characteristics of Jews in Bohemia, Appendices
Biography
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.
