Mark Tolts, PhD

Current Position: Senior Research Associate, Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics,

Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel (email: mtolts@mscc.huji.ac.il)

Areas of Specialization: Family Demography; Migration; Ethnicity; Demographic Statistics

Subjects of Study: Demography of the former USSR, especially of (ex-) Soviet Jewry; 

Demography of Jews in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe

Selected Publications/Papers:

· “The Demographic Profile of the Bukharan Jews in the Late Soviet Period,” I. Baldauf, M. Gammer and T. Loy (eds.), Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century: History, Experience and Narration. Wiesbaden: Reichert-Verlag, 2008. – 15 pp. [forthcoming].

· “Population since World War I,” G.D. Hundert (ed.), The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 1429-1434.

· “Migration since World War I,” G.D. Hundert (ed.), The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 1434-1440.

· "Population Trends in the Russian Federation: Reflections on the Legacy of Soviet Censorship and Distortions of Demographic Statistics," Eurasian Geography and Economics (Columbia, MD), 2008, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 87–98.

· “Demography of North Caucasian Jewry: A Note on Population Dynamics and Shifting Identity,” M. Gammer (ed.), Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder. London and New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 212-224.

· "The Jews in the Three Post-Soviet Slavic Countries: Selected Population Trends," W. Moskovich and L. Finberg (eds.), Jews and Slavs, Vol. 19. Jerusalem–Kyiv: Hebrew University; [Ukrainian] Institute of Jewish Studies, 2007, pp. 187-196 [in press].

· “Postsovetskie evrei v sovremennom mire” (Post-Soviet Jewry in the Contemporary World), Demoscope Weekly (Internet Journal), 2007, No. 303-304.

· “Post-Soviet Jewish Demography, 1989-2004,” Z. Gitelman and Y. Ro’i (eds.), Revolution, Repression and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, pp. 283-311.

· "Contemporary Trends in Family Formation among the Jews in Russia,” Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe (Jerusalem), 2006, No. 2 (57), pp. 5-23.

· “Demography: Jewish Women in the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation and other Successor States,” P. Hyman and D. Ofer (eds.), Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing; Jewish Publication Society of America. CD-ROM edition, 2006. – [12 pp.]

· “Ethnic Composition of Kazakhstan on the Eve of the Second World War: Re-Evaluation of the 1939 Soviet Census Results,” Central Asian Survey (London), 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1-2, pp. 143-148.

· “Extra-Marital Conceptions in Contemporary Russia’s Fertility,” Research Note Prepared for the European Population Conference, Liverpool, UK, 21-24 June 2006 (with O. Antonova and E. Andreev).

· “Contemporary Jewish Diaspora in Global Context: Human Development Correlates of Population Trends,” Israel Studies (Bloomington, IN), 2005, Vol. 10, No.1, pp. 61-95 (with S. DellaPergola and U. Rebhun).

· “Demographic Trends Among the Jews in the Three Post-Soviet Slavic Republics,” Paper presented at the 14th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, July 31 - August 4, 2005.

· “Demographische Trends unter den Juden der ehemaligen Sowjetunion” (Demographic Trends among the Jews of the Former Soviet Union), Menora: Jahrbuch für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte 2004. Band 15. Berlin/Vienna: Philo, 2005, pp. 15-44.

· “Rozhdaemost’ i transformatsiia instituta sem’i v sovremennoi Rossii” (Fertility and Transformation of the Institution of the Family in Contemporary Russia), Voprosy statistiki (Moscow), 2005, No. 7, pp. 51-60 [with O. Antonova and E. Andreev; published in different form in: Demoscope Weekly (Internet Journal), 2006, No. 229-230].

· “The Post-Soviet Jewish Population in Russia and the World,” Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe (Jerusalem), 2004, No. 1 (52), pp. 37-63.

· “Tainy sovetskoi demografii” (Secrets of Soviet Demography), Demoscope Weekly (Internet Journal), 2004, No. 171-172.

· “Mixed Marriage and Post-Soviet Aliyah,” The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Conference Transcripts: International Intermarriage Roundtable Conference (December 17-18, 2003).

· “Mass Aliyah and Jewish Emigration from Russia: Dynamics and Factors,” East European Jewish Affairs (London), 2003, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 71-96.

· “Rossiiskaia emigratsiia v Izrail / Emigration en Israël hors de Russie,” Naselenie i obshchestvo / Population et Société (Moscow), 2003, No. 71, pp. 1-4.

· “Demography of the Jews in the Former Soviet Union: Yesterday and Today,” Z.  Gitelman with M. Glants and M.I. Goldman (eds.), Jewish Life After the USSR. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003, pp. 173-206.

· “Aliya from the Russian Federation: An Analysis of Recent Data,” Jews in Eastern Europe (Jerusalem), 2002, No. 1-2 (47-48), pp. 5-23 [Partial Russian translation published in: Monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniia (Moscow), 2002, No. 6, pp. 37-43; Demoscope Weekly (Internet Journal), 2003, No. 105-106].

· “Statistical Analysis of Aliyah and Jewish Emigration from Russia,” V.A. Iontsev (ed.), International Migration of Population: Russia and the Contemporary World. Vol. 10. Moscow: Lomonosov University of Moscow, 2002, pp. 171-185; for Russian translation, see: http://www.demostudy.ru/books/volume 10_rus.pdf.

· “The Failure of Demographic Statistics: A Soviet Response to Population Troubles,” Paper presented at the IUSSP XXIVth General Population Conference, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, August 18-24, 2001 [for supplemented version, see: http://dmo.econ.msu.ru/demografia/Rus_census2002/History/].

· “Jewish Demography of the Former Soviet Union,” S. DellaPergola and J. Even (eds.), Papers in Jewish Demography 1997. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 2001, pp. 109-139; for partial internet version, see: “The Post-Soviet Jewish Emigration,” Paper presented at the European Population Conference, Helsinki, Finland, June 7-9, 2001.

· “Russian Jewish Migration in the Post-Soviet Era,” Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2000, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 183-199.

· “Jews in the Russian Federation: A Decade of Demographic Decline,” Jews in Eastern Europe (Jerusalem), 1999, No. 3 (40), pp. 5-36.

· “Jews in Russia: A Century of Demographic Dynamics,” Diasporas (Moscow), 1999, No. 1, pp. 180-198.

· “Yiddish in the Former Soviet Union Since 1959: A Statistical-Demographic Analysis,” G. Estraikh and M. Krutikov (eds.), Yiddish in the Contemporary World. Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 1999, pp. 133-146.

· “Recent Jewish Emigration and Population Decline in Russia,” Jews in Eastern Europe (Jerusalem), 1998, No. 1 (35), pp. 5-24.

· “Demographic Trends among the Jews in the Three Slavic Republics of the Former USSR: A Comparative Analysis,” S. DellaPergola and J. Even (eds.), Papers in Jewish Demography 1993. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1997, pp. 147-175.

· “The Interrelationship between Emigration and the Socio-Demographic Profile of Russian Jewry,” N. Lewin-Epstein, Y. Ro’i and P. Ritterband (eds.), Russian Jews on Three Continents. London: Cass, 1997, pp. 147-176.

· “Ethnicity, Religion and Demographic Change in Russia: Russians, Tatars and Jews,” Evolution or Revolution in European Population (European Population Conference, Milano 1995), Vol. 2. Milan: EAPS and IUSSP, 1996, pp. 165-179.

· “The Jewish Population of Russia, 1989-1995,” Jews in Eastern Europe (Jerusalem), 1996, No. 3 (31), pp. 5-19.

· “Modernization of Demographic Behaviour in the Muslim Republics of the Former USSR,” Y. Ro’i (ed.), Muslim Eurasia: Conflicting Legacies. London: Cass, 1995, pp. 231-253. 

· “Trends in Soviet Jewish Demography since the Second World War,” Y. Ro’i (ed.), Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union. London: Cass, 1995, pp. 365-382.

· “Indeksy brachnosti” (Nuptiality Indexes), “Ovdovenie” (Widowhood), “Prekrashchenie braka” (Marital Dissolution), “Prodolzhitel’nost’ braka” (Length of Married Life), “Razvodimost’” (Divorce), A. Ya. Kvasha et al. (eds.), Narodonaselenie, Entsiklopedicheskii slovar’ (Population, Encyclopedic Dictionary). Moscow: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 1994, pp. 150-151, 279-280, 347-349, 357-358, 367-370 (with T.L. Kharkova).

· “Jews in the Russian Republic since the Second World War: The Dynamics of Demographic Erosion,” International Population Conference, Montreal 1993, Vol. 3. Liège: IUSSP, 1993, pp. 99-111.

· “The Balance of Births and Deaths among Soviet Jewry,” Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (Jerusalem), 1992, No. 2 (18), pp. 13-26.

· “Jewish Marriages in the USSR: A Demographic Analysis,” East European Jewish Affairs (London), 1992, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 3-19.

· “Perepis’ prigovorennaia k zabveniiu” (The Census Condemned to Obscurity), A.G. Vishnevsky (ed.), Sem’ia i semeinaia politika. Moscow: Institute for Socioeconomic Studies of Population, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1991, pp. 161-178.

· “Nedostupnoe izmerenie” (Unattainable Measurement), A.G. Vishnevsky (ed.), V chelovecheskom izmerenii. Moscow: Progress, 1989, pp. 325–342.

· “Evolutsiia brachnosti i rozhdaemosti v Sovetskii period” (The Evolution of Nuptiality and Fertility in the Soviet Era), L.L. Rybakovsky (ed.), Naselenie SSSR za 70 let. Moscow: Nauka, 1988, pp. 75-114 (with A.G. Vishnevsky).

· Demographic Tables. Moscow: UN Fund for Population Activities and Lomonosov University of Moscow, 1986. – 97 pp. (with L.E. Darsky).

· “Demograficheskii analiz brachnosti: Problemy, metody, interpretatsiia rezul’tatov” (Demographic Analysis of Nuptiality: Problems, Methods and Interpretations), A.G. Vishnevsky (ed.), Metody issedovaniia. Moscow: Mysl’, 1986, pp. 79-95.

· “Sistema demograficheskikh pokazatelei brachnosti” (The System of Demographic Measures of Nuptiality), M.S. Matskovsky (ed.), Metodicheskie problemy i metodiki issledovaniia braka i sem’i. Moscow: Institute of Sociology, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1986, pp. 4-14.

· “Vzaimosviazi brachnogo i reproduktivnogo povedeniia” (The Relationship between Marital and Reproductive Behaviour), A.I. Antonov (ed.), Detnost’ sem’i. Moscow: Mysl’, 1986, pp. 39-53.

· “Nachal’nye etapy realizatsii reproduktivnoi funktsii zhenshchin” (The Initial Stages of Female Reproduction Life), Zdravookranenie Rossiiskoi Federatsii (Moscow), No. 7, 1984, pp. 13-15 (with L.Ya. Oberg and O.A. Shishko).

· “Brachnost’ naseleniia Rossii v kontse XIX - nachale XX v.” (Nuptiality of the Population of Russia at the Close of the 19th - Beginning of the 20th Century), A.G. Vishnevsky (ed.), Brachnost’, rozhdaemost’, smertnost’ v Rossii i v SSSR. Moscow: Statistika, 1977, pp. 138-159.

· “A Description of Some Components of the Birthrate in a Large City,” Soviet Sociology (New York), 1975, Vol. XIV, No. 2, pp. 51-62 [previously published in Russian: “Kharakteristika nekotorykh komponentov rozhdaenosti v bol’shom gorode”, D.I. Valentei (ed.), Demograficheskii analiz rozhdaemosti. Moscow: Statistika, 1974, pp. 45-55].