Growth, calamity and continuity: the Jewish people before and after the Shoah: a demographic overview
TitleGrowth, calamity and continuity: the Jewish people before and after the Shoah: a demographic overview
Author
Call numberS940.5318/009
Object number08258h
Place of publicationJerusalem, Israel
PublisherYad Vashem
Year of publication
2010
Dimensionspp32-43
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the journal 'Legacy' pp 32-43 Vol.2 2010
Description
This article provides a demographic overview of the short- and long-term ramifications of the Holocaust on the future of the Jewish people. He points out the disturbing fact that the demographic rehabilitation rate of the Jewish people, which initially showed a robust growth of one million Jews in the first decade-and-a-half after the Holocaust, has slowed considerably.