Prof. Sergio DellaPergola

Jewish Demography and Statistics

Prof. Sergio DellaPergola

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1. Personal Background

1942 Sep. 7 - Born in Trieste, Italy.

1943-1945 - Family displaced to Switzerland.

1945-1966 - Lived in Milan, Italy.

1966 - Moved to Jerusalem, Israel.

Married: Miriam Toaff; 4 children (born 1970, 1971, 1972, 1982).

Office: The A. Harman Institute of Contempoary Jewry

The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus

Jerusalem 91905, Israel.

Telephone: (972-2) 588-2470 or 588-2472; Fax (972-2) 588-1243 or 588-1002.

Email: sergioa@huji.ac.il

Home: Rehov Habanai 29a, Jerusalem 96264, Israel.

Telephone: (972-2) 652-7867; Fax: (972-2) 654-0708.

2. Higher Learning

1973 - Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dissertation in Contemporary Jewry/

Demography; instructor: Prof. R. Bachi).

1966 - Dr. [M.A.] in Political Sciences Cum Laude, Universita degli Studi, Pavia (Thesis

in Social Statistics; instructor: Prof. P. Gennaro).

3. Academic Ranks

1994 - Professor, The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry (ICJ), The Hebrew

University of Jerusalem.

1987 - Associate Professor.

1980 - Senior Lecturer (tenure: 1982).

1973 - Lecturer.

1971 - Instructor, ICJ.

1968 - Teaching Assistant, Department of Demography, The Hebrew U.

4. Research and Teaching Positions

2000 - Chairman, The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry (ICJ), The Hebrew

University of Jerusalem.

1986-pres. - Head, Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics, ICJ.

1998 - Visiting Professor, Institute of Human Geography, University of Milano.

1994-1998 - Chairman, ICJ.

1993/94 - Visiting Scholar, Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, and Department of

Sociology, University of California-UCLA, Los Angeles, Ca., USA.

1993/94 - Baldwin Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, Ca., USA.

1992-pres. - Senior Research Fellow, The Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, Jerusalem.

1991/92 - Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew U. (Study group:

Religion and Society in Contemporary Jewry).

1991 - Chairman, ICJ.

1990,91,92 - Visiting Professor, Istituto di Statistica, Universita di Pavia.

1985/86 - On sabbatical leave, visited and lectured at higher learning institutions in nine countries

in Western Europe, North America and Latin America.

1980/81 - Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew U. (Study Group:

Demography of the Jews).

1978/79 - Visiting Research Associate, Population Studies and Training Center, Department of

Sociology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

1973-1976 - Teaching Fellow (Lecturer), Dept. of Sociology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan.

5. Award

1999 - Marshall Sklare Award for distinguished scholarship, The Association for the Social

Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ).

6. Research Projects (principal or main associate investigator)

1997-1998 - (With Uzi Rebhun) Jerusalem Strategic Masterplan: Demographic Projections,

Jerusalem Municipality, Research and Development Division.

1998 - (With Rosa Geldstein) Sociodemographic Survey of the Jewish Population of the

Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, with Asociacion Mutualista Israelita Argentina AMIA

and Centro Nacional de Estudios de Poblacion CENEP.

1998-pres. - (With Salomon Benzaquen and Tony Beker Veinraub) Sociodemographic Profile of the

Jewish Community in Venezuela, with Asociacion Israelita de Venezuela and Union Israelita

de Caracas.

1996-1999 - (With Uzi Rebhun, Mark Tolts) World Jewish Population Projections, with Israel

Humanitarian Foundation, New York.

1995-pres. - World Jewish Population Trends, with the American Jewish Committee, New York.

1993-1998 - Data Bank on Jewish Educational Statistics, with The Joint Authority for Jewish

Zionist Education.

1993 - (With Eugenio Sonnino) Survey of Jewish Community in Rome, with the Vigevani Fund

of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Universita La Sapienza, Roma, Dipartimento

di Demografia.

1990-1998 - (With Susan Lerner) Mexican Jewish Population Study, with Centro de Estudios

Demograficos y de Desarrollo Urbano (CEDDU), El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City.

1989-1991 - (With Eric Peritz) Never Married Jewish Women in Israel, with The National

Insurance Institution, Jerusalem, Ministry of Labor and Welfare, The Demographic Center,

Jerusalem.

1984-1988 - (With Roberto Bachi and Vivian Klaff) Urban Ecology of the Jews in the Diaspora,

United States-Israel Binational Scientific Foundation (Grant 82-03427).

1981-1995 - (With U.O. Schmelz) Evaluation of World Jewish Population Trends, with the

American Jewish Committee, New York.

1979-1991 - Jewish Educational Statistics, The Joint Program for Jewish Education of the

State of Israel, Ministry of Education and Culture, The Jewish Agency for Israel, and

the World Zionist Organization; later: The L.A. Pincus Fund for Jewish Education.

1976-1978 - (With Allie Dubb) South African Jewish Population Study, with South African Jewish

Board of Deputies, Johannesburg.

1974-1978 - (With Amedeo Tagliacozzo) Italian Immigrants in Israel, Consiglio Nazionale delle

Ricerche (CNR), Rome.

1972-1984 - (With Doris Bensimon) French Jewish Population Study, with Centre National de la

Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris.

1972-1974 - (With U.O. Schmelz) The Jewish Population of Argentina, with Asociacion Mutual

Israelita Argentina (AMIA), Buenos Aires, and David Horowitz Institute, Tel Aviv University.

1970-1971 - (With Nathanel Lichfield and others) New Towns in Israel, Institute of Planning

and Development, Tel Aviv, and State of Israel, Ministry of Housing, Jerusalem.

1964-1972 - (With Roberto Bachi and Franco Sabatello) Italian Jewish Population Study, with

Universita di Pavia, and Unione delle Comunita Israelitiche Italiane (UCII), Roma.

7. Committees and Other Academic Activities

2000-pres. - Public Council, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

1999-pres. - Academic committee, Center for European Studies, The Hebrew University.

1998-pres. - Board of Directors and Academic Committee, Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies.

1997-pres. - Strategic Planning Sub-committee and Aliyah and Rescue Task Force, Jewish

Agency for Israel.

1997-pres. - Steering Committee and Head of Demographic-Social Committee, Jerusalem

Strategic Masterplan, Jerusalem Municipality.

1996-pres. - Board of Overseers and Academic Advisory Committee, The Hebrew University’s

Mandel Center for Jewish Continuity.

1995-1996 - Chairman, The Hebrew University President’s Committee on The University of

the Jewish People.

1995 - Organizer (with Jeannette Schoorl), Session II.1, Demography of ethnic and

religious groups, refugees and asylumseekers, European Association for Population

Studies (EAPS), 3rd European Population Conference, Milano, September.

1993-pres. - Public Council, The Demographic Center, State of Israel, Ministry of Labor and

Social Affairs.

1993-pres. - Committee on Israel-Diaspora Relations, State of Israel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1993-pres. - Board, World Union for Jewish Studies.

1993 - Organizer, Session 28, Demographic Processes and their Impact on the Identity and Survival

of Minorities, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), General Conference,

Montreal, August.
1991-pres.- (Since 1999, Chairman) Academic Advisory Committee, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew U.

1991,94-7 - Steering Committee, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew U.

1990-1992 - Editorial Board, Atlas Histoire universelle des Juifs de la Genese a la fin du XXe

siecle, Paris, Hachette.

1990-1996 - Elected member of the Senate, The Hebrew U. (representing Associate Professors).

1989-1993 - Project Director, World Directory of University Teaching of Jewry, International

Center for the University Teaching of Jewry, Jerusalem, Presidency of the State of Israel.

1989-1997 - Computers Committee, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew U.

1988-pres. - Steering Committee and International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC), The

Association for Demographic Policy of the Jewish People, State of Israel, The Demographic Center,

and World Zionist Organization, Jerusalem.

1986-1993 - Frank Committee for the Study of the Jewish Experience in Europe, Faculty

of Humanities, The Hebrew U.

1985-1989 - Steering Committee, Israel Family and Fertility Study, The Hebrew U., School of

Medicine and Hadassa, and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities.

1984-pres. - National Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC), US National Jewish Population

Study, Council of Jewish Federations, New York.

1980-1988 - Steering Committee, Jewish Historical Demography, The Israel Historical Society

and Association for Jewish Demography and Statistics.

1980-1988 - Steering Committee, Curriculum in Demography for Israeli High Schools, State of

Israel, Ministry of Labor and Welfare, Demographic Center, Jerusalem.

1975-1994 - Chairman or member, ICJ's Steering, Planning, Budgets, Scholarships, Teaching,

and Students' adviser committees.

1975-pres. - Board of Directors, Hevrat Yehude Italia Lef'ulah Ruhanit and Centro per lo Studio

dell'Ebraismo Italiano (central religious, cultural and research organization of Italian immigrants

in Israel), Jerusalem.

1973-pres. - Honorary Treasurer, Association for Jewish Demography and Statistics, Jerusalem.

8. Teaching Courses and Seminars (1983-2000)

- Introduction to Demography of the Jews (CJ 33866)

- Introduction to Sociology of the Jews (CJ 33871)

- Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods (CJ 33961)

- Contemporary Jewish Society: Demography, Sociology, Identification (CJ 33410)

- Jewish Population and Community: (a) Western Europe (CJ 33797); (b) North America; (c) Latin

America

- Migration, Aliyah and Immigrants Absorption: General and Jewish International Migration (CJ 33928)

- Demography and Sociology of the Jewish Family: From Tradition to Assimilation (CJ 33867)

- Jews in Cities: Territorial and Sociodemographic Aspects (CJ)

- Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora: Comparative Demography (CJ 33998-33999)

- Family and Community among North African Jews: Countries of Origin and Resettlement (CJ)

- Sociodemographic Aspects of Jewish Education in the Diaspora (CJ)

- Italy and the Jews: history, politics, identity (CJ 33922)

- Demography of the Mediterranean Area and of the Middle East (University of Pavia)

- Comparative Studies of Jewish Communities in the U.S. and Abroad (UCLA, Soc 159)

- Contemporary Issues of the Jewish Community in a Historical Perspective (University of Judaism,

Mgt 442)

- Sociology of the Jews (University of Judaism, Soc 203/303)

- Demografia, sociedad y identificacion judia en el siglo 20 (Universidad Iberoamericana)

9. Membership in Scholarly Organizations

IUSSP - International Union for the Scientific Study of Population

PAA - Population Association of America

EAPS - European Association for Population Studies

AIDELF - Association Internationale des Demographes de Langue Francaise

SIDES - Societa Italiana di Demografia Storica

CISR - Conference Internationale de Sociologie des Religions

WUJS - World Union of Jewish Studies

ISS - Israel Sociological Society

IHS - Israel Historical Society

AJS - Associacion of Jewish Studies

ASSJ - Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry

LAJSA - Latin American Jewish Studies Association

AJDS - Association for Jewish Demography and Statistics

10. Research Institutions at which Lectured out of Israel
United States

(1979, 1986) Department of Sociology, Population Studies and Training Center; Department of History; Hillel Faculty Club, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (Profs. S.Goldstein, C.Goldscheider, F.Kobrin Goldscheider, R.Lichfield).

(1981, 1986, 1999) CUNY Graduate Center; Department of Sociology, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York (Profs. P.Ritterband, S.M.Cohen, S.Heilman, M.Verbit).

(1982, 1984, 1986, 1991) Center for Modern Jewish Studies; Horenstein Program in Jewish Communal Service, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (Profs. M.Sklare, J.Reinharz, B.Reisman, G.Tobin).

(1984) Latin American Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Prof. G.Merks).

(1986) Departments of Sociology and Judaic Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (Profs. H.Himmelfarb, M.Raphael).

(1991, 1993/94) Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, Program in Judaic Studies, and Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, California (Profs. G.Sabagh, A.Band, I.Szeleny, R.Waldinger).

(1991) Department of Public Health, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii (Profs. C.Chung, J.Michael).

(1993/94) Departments of Business Administration and Sociology, University of Judaism, Los Angeles (Profs. H.Alexander, S.Lowenstein).

Canada

(1986) Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal (Prof. M.Weinfeld).

(1994) Department of History, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta (Prof. E.Lee).

(1997) Jewish Studies Program, York University, York, Ontario (Prof. I. Abella).

Mexico

(1990, 1994) Centro de Estudios Demograficos y de Desarrollo Urbano (CEDDU), El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico, D.F. (Profs.G. Cabrera, S.Lerner).

(1997) Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, D.F. (Prof. Judit Bokser Liwerant).

Argentina

(1985) Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad Nacional, Buenos Aires (Prof. H.Bustamante).

(1985, 1998) Centro de Estudios de Poblacion (CENEP), Buenos Aires (Prof. E.Panthelides, V.Moreno).

(1994) Academia de la Historia, Buenos Aires (Prof. Tau Anzuategui).

(1998) Instituto Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Prof. F. Schuster).

Brazil

(1985, 2000) Centro de Estudos de Demografia Historica da America Latina (CEDHAL), Universidade de Sao Paulo (Profs. M.L.Marcilio, E.de Mesquita Samara).

(2000) Centro de Edudos Judaicos, Universidade de Sao Paulo (Prof. B.Waldman).

(2000) Centro Simao Mathiat de Estudos em Historia da Ciencia, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo (Prof. J.L.Goldfarb).

Uruguay

(1985) Facultad de Letras, Universidad Nacional, Montevideo (Prof. E.Tenenbaum).

Venezuela

(1989) Escuela de Geografia, Universidad Central, Caracas (Prof. P.Cunill).

Italy

(1985, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1999) Facolta di Scienze Politiche, Universita degli Studi, Pavia (Profs. P.Scaramozzino, F.Ge Rondi).

(1985) Dipartimento di Statistica, Universita degli Studi, Firenze (Profs. M. Livi Bacci, A.Santini, C.Corsini).

(1985) Dipartimento di Statistica, Universita degli Studi, Bologna (Profs. F.Tassinari, A.Schiaffino, R.Finzi).

(1985, 1991) Dipartimento di Demografia, Universita La Sapienza, Roma (Profs. N.Federici, E.Sonnino, G.Caselli).

(1991, 1994, 1998) Dipartimento di Geografia, Universita degli Studi, Milano (Profs. L.Corna Pellegrini, L.Scaramellini, M.C. Zerbi, A.Treves, E.Bianchi).

(1993) Dipartimento di Pianificazione e Scienza del Territorio, Universita Federico II, Napoli (Profs. C. Beguinot, U.Cardarelli).

(1998) Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Universita di Lecce (Prof. A. Donno).

(1999) Dipartimento di Studi delle Civilta del Mediterraneo, Universita di Trieste (Prof. G. Trisolini).

(1999) Dipartimento per lo Studio delle Civilta Mediterranee, Universita di Bari (Profs. M.Maestro, L. Di Comite)

France

(1978, 1986, 1992) Ecole des Hautes Etudes du Judaisme, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Universite de Paris 5, Clichy (Profs. R. Sirat, D.Bensimon, M.Hadas-Lebel).

(1986) Societe des Etudes Juives, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Universite de la Sorbonne, Paris (Prof. G. Nahon).

(1986) Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques (INED), Paris (Mr. G.Calot, M.Levy, P.Festy, Ms. J.Hecht).

(1995) Centre de Recherche et d’Etudes Juives (CIREJ), Universite de Toulouse (Prof. C.Benayoun).

Belgium

(1967) Institut de Sociologie, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Prof. A. Doucy)

(1976, 1986, 1991) Centre des Hautes Etudes du Judaisme, Institut Martin Buber, Universie Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles (Mr. M. Gottschalk, W.Bok, Prof. S.Feld).

The Netherlands

(1988) Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Prof. P.VanPraag).

Spain

(1989) Facultad de Historia y Geografia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Prof. R.Puyol).

(1992) Universidad Internacional Menendez y Pelayo, Santander (Prof. P.Perez-Fuentes Hernandez).

United Kingdom

(1986, 1992, 1997) Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Judaic and Hebrew St, Oxford (Profs. D.Patterson, J.Webber, B.Wasserstein).

Romania

(1998) M.Carmilly Center for Hebrew and Judaic Studies, The History and Philosophy Department, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Prof. L. Gyemant)

Russia

(1991) Center for International Studies, University of Moscow, Moscow (Prof. B.Gontarev).

(1991) Center for Demographic Studies, Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Moscow (Profs. V.Rybakowsky, W.Shapiro).

Ukraine

(1995) Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev (Prof. G.Aronov, Y.Sayenko).

South Africa

(1994) Kaplan Center for Jewish Studies, University of Cape Town (Prof. M.Shain).

11. Main Publications
a. Books and Monographs

Jewish and Mixed Marriages in Milan, 1901-1968; with an Appendix: Frequency of Mixed Marriages Among Diaspora Jews. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, Jewish Population Studies, No. 3, 1972, 166 pp.

(U.O. Schmelz, P. Glikson, S. DellaPergola, eds.) Papers in Jewish Demography 1969. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1973, 372 pp.

(U.O. Schmelz, S. DellaPergola) Demography of the Jews in Argentina and in Other Latin American Countries. Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University, Horowitz Institute, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, 1974, 208 pp. (in Hebrew, mimeo).

Anatomia dell'ebraismo italiano: caratteristiche demografiche, economiche, sociali, religiose e politiche di una minoranza. Roma-Assisi, Carucci, 1976, xvi + 358 pp.

Population: Demographic Trends in the World, among Diaspora Jews and in Israel. Jerusalem, Israel Information Center, 1976, 80 pp.

(U.O. Schmelz, P. Glikson, S. DellaPergola, eds.) Papers in Jewish Demography 1973. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1977, 463 pp.

(S. DellaPergola, A. Tagliacozzo) Gli Italiani in Israele. Roma, La Rassegna Mensile di Israel, 1978, xii + 153 pp.

(U.O. Schmelz, P. Glikson, S. DellaPergola, eds.) Papers in Jewish Demography 1977. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1980, 408 pp.

La trasformazione demografica della diaspora ebraica. Torino, Loescher, 1983, 288 pp.

Schmelz, P. Glikson, S. DellaPergola, eds.) Papers in Jewish Demography 1981. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1983, 457 pp.

(D. Bensimon, S. DellaPergola) La population juive de France: socio-demographie et identite. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University; Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, 1984, 436 pp.; 2nd printing, Paris, 1986.

(R. Bachi, S. DellaPergola, V. Klaff) Urban Ecology of the Jews in the Diaspora. Final Report Submitted to the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, BSF Grant 82-03427. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1988, 207 pp. (mimeo).

(H.S. Himmelfarb, S. DellaPergola, eds.) Jewish Education Worldwide: Cross-cultural Perspectives. Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America, 1989, xvi + 616 pp.

(U.O. Schmelz, S. DellaPergola, eds.) Papers in Jewish Demography 1985. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1989, 415 pp.

(U.O. Schmelz, S. DellaPergola, Uri Avner) Ethnic Differences Among Israeli Jews: A New Look. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, and New York, The American Jewish Committee, 1991, 204 pp.

(S. DellaPergola, L. Cohen, eds.) World Jewish Population: Trends and Policies. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1992, 332 pp.

Aspetti socio-culturali della demografia dei paesi del Mediterraneo sud-orientale e del Medio Oriente. Pavia, Facolta di Scienze Politiche, Istituto di Statistica, 1992, 176 pp (mimeo).

(U.O. Schmelz, S. DellaPergola, eds.) Papers in Jewish Demography 1989. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1993, 320 pp.

(S. DellaPergola, S. Lerner) La poblacion judia de Mexico: Perfil demografico, social y cultural. Mexico-Jerusalen, Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalem; El Colegio de Mexico; Asociacion Mexicana de Amigos de la Universisad Hebrea de Jerusalem, 1995, 188 pp.

(R.S.Wistrich, S. DellaPergola, eds.) Fascist Antisemitism and the Italian Jews. Jerusalem, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University, 1995, 97 pp.

(S. DellaPergola, J.Even, eds.) Papers in Jewish Demography 1993 in Memory of U.O.Schmelz. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1997, 389 pp.

World Jewry Beyond 2000: The Demographic Prospects. Oxford, Oxford Centre of Judaic and Hebrew Studies, 1999, 78 pp.

(S.DellaPergola, U.Rebhun) Summary of Jerusalem Population Projections, 1995-2020. Jerusalem, Jerusalem Municipality Strategic Masterplan, 90 pp. (forthcoming, Hebrew).

World Jewry and American Jews: Comparing Socio-demographic Profiles. Albany, State University of New York Press (in preparation).

b. Articles and Reports

La popolazione ebraica d'Italia: caratteristiche demografiche, economiche e sociali. Genus, Vol. 24. Roma, 1968, pp. 135-175.

A Note on Marriage Trends among Jews in Italy. The Jewish Journal of Sociology, Vol. 14, n. 2. London, 1972, pp. 197-205.

The Geography of Italian Jews: Countrywide Patterns, in E. Toaff (ed.) Studi sull'ebraismo italiano. Roma, Barulli - Istituto Superiore di Studi Ebraici del Collegio Rabbinico Italiano, 1974, pp. 93-128.

(S. DellaPergola, E.F. Sabatello) The Italian Jewish Population Study, in U.O. Schmelz et al. (eds.) Studies in Jewish Demography; Survey for 1969-1971. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, and London, Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1975, pp. 53-152.

Quelques problemes methodologiques dans les juives (1880-1978); Sources et methodes de recherche. Paris, Institut National des Langues et Civilizations Orientales et Centre Interuniversitaire des Hautes Etudes du Judaïsme Contemporain, 1979, pp. 215-247.

Some Occupational Characteristics of Western Jews in Israel, in U.O. Schmelz et al. (eds.) Papers in Jewish Demography 1977. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1980, pp. 255-281.

Patterns of American Jewish Fertility. Demography, Vol. 17, n. 3. Washington, Population Association of America, 1980, pp. 261-273.

Quantitative Aspects of Jewish Assimilation, in B. Vago (ed.) Jewish Assimilation in Modern Times. Boulder, Westview Press, 1981, pp. 185-206.

Appunti sulla demografia della persecuzione antiebraica in Italia. La Rassegna Mensile di Israel, Vol. 47, n. 1-3. Milano, 1981, pp. 120-137.

(U.O. Schmelz, S. DellaPergola) World Jewish Population. American Jewish Year Book, Vols. 82-96. New York-Philadelphia, 1982-1996 (yearly publication).

(H.S.Himmelfarb, S. DellaPergola) Enrollment in Jewish Schools in the Diaspora; Late 1970s. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, 1982, 97 pp. (Project for Jewish Educational Statistics, Research Report n. 1).

Recent Demographic Trends among Jews in Western Europe, in E. Stock (ed.) European Jewry; A Handbook. Ramat Gan, Turtledove Press, 1983, pp. 19-62.

Contemporary Jewish Fertility: An Overview, in U.O. Schmelz et al. (eds.) Papers in Jewish Demography 1981. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1983, pp. 215-238.

(U.O. Schmelz, S. DellaPergola) The Demographic Consequences of US Jewish Population Trends. American Jewish Year Book, Vol. 83. New York-Philadelphia, 1983, pp. 141-187.

L'effet des mariages mixtes sur la natalite dans une sous-population: quelques problemes et resultats concernant la diaspora juive. Demographie et destin des sous-populations. Paris, Association Internationale des Demographes de Langue Francaise, 1983, pp. 223-236.

(S. DellaPergola, N. Genuth) Jewish Education Attained in Diaspora Communities; Data for 1970s. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, 1983, 73 pp. (Project for Jewish Educational Statistics, Research Report n. 2).

(R. Bachi, S. DellaPergola) Gli ebrei italiani nel quadro della demografia della diaspora. Quaderni Storici, n. 55. Roma, 1984, pp. 155-191.

On the Differential Frequency of Western Migration to Israel. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 1, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1984, pp. 292-315.

A Note on Dutch Jewish Demography, in J. Michman, T. Levie (eds.) Dutch Jewish History. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Herusalem, The Institute for Research on Dutch Jewry, 1984, pp. 551-653.

(U.O. Schmelz, S. DellaPergola) The Demography of Latin AmeJewry. American Jewish Year Book, Vol. 85. New York-Philadelphia, 1985, pp. 51-102.

(N. Genuth, S. DellaPergola, A.A. Dubb) First Census of Jewish Schools in the Diaspora 1981/2-1982/3; International Summary. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, 1985, 138 pp. (Project for Jewish Educational Statistics, Research Report n. 3).

(U.O. Schmelz, S. DellaPergola) Demography and Jewish Education - The Project for Jewish Educational Statistics. Yahadut Zemanenu - Contemporary Jewry, A Research Annual, Vol. 2. Jerusalem, 1984, pp. 375-410 (in Hebrew).

Contemporary Jewish Family Patterns in France: A Comparative Perspective, in S.M. Cohen, P.E. Hyman (eds.) The Jewish Family: Myths and Reality. New York, Holmes and Meier, 1986, pp. 148-171.

Aliya and Other Jewish Migrations: Toward an Integrated Perspective, in: U.O. Schmelz and G. Nathan (eds.), Studies in the Population of Israel in Honor of Roberto Bachi. Jerusalem, Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1986, pp. 172-209 (Scripta Hierosolymitana, Vol. 30).

(A. Dubb, S. DellaPergola) First Census of Jewish Schools in the Diaspora 1981/2-1982/3; United States of America. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, 1986, 102 pp. (Project for Jewish Educational Statistics, Research Report n. 4).

Demographic Trends of Latin American Jewry, in J. Laikin Elkin, G.W. Merkx (eds.) The Jewish Presence in Latin America. Boston, Allen and Unwin, 1987, pp. 85-133.

Aspetti e problemi della demografia degli ebrei nell’epoca preindustriale, in G. Cozzi (ed.) Gli ebrei e Venezia; secoli XIV-XVIII, Milano, Edizioni di Comunita, 1987, pp. 201-210.

Toward a System of Statistical Indicators on Jewish Education in the Diaspora: First Data on Hours of Total and Judaic Instruction in Jewish Schools, in J. Aviad (ed.) Studies in Jewish Education, Vol. 3 Jerusalem, 1988, pp. 226-245.

Jewish Population in the 19th and 20th Centuries, in J.M. Landau (ed.) The Jews in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1914). Jerusalem, Misgav Yerushalaim, 1988, pp. 27-62 (in Hebrew).

Some Effects of Religion on Population Trends: the Case of the Jews, Pro Mundi Vita Studies, 5, Brussels, 1988, pp. 40-48.

(U.O. Schmelz, S. DellaPergola) Basic Trends in American Jewish Demography. New York, American Jewish Committee, 1988, 44 pp.; appeared also in S. Bayme (ed.) Facing the Future: Essays on Contemporary Jewish Life. New York, Ktav - American Jewish Committee, 1989, pp. 72-111.

(S.DellaPergola, A.A. Dubb) South African Jewry: A Sociodemographic Profile. American Jewish Year Book, Vol. 88. New York-Philadelphia, 1988, pp. 59-140.

Jewish Urban Ecology in European Cities. Papers in Jewish Demography 1985. Jerusalem, 1989, pp. 303-336.

Distribution residentielle des Juifs dans quelques villes europeennes et a Rome en particulier (Recherche en cours). La Revue des Etudes Juives, Vol. 148, n. 1-2. Paris, 1989, pp. 95-119.

(D. Bensimon, S. DellaPergola) Structures socio-demographiques de la population juive originaire d'Afrique du Nord, in J.C. Lasry, C. Tapia (eds.), Les Juifs du Maghreb: diasporas contemporaines. Paris, l'Harmattan, Montreal, Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 1989, pp. 179-206.

(S. DellaPergola, U.O. Schmelz) Demographic Transformations of US Jewry: Marriage and Mixed-Marriage in the 1980s. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 5. New York, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 169-200, 209-214.

Marriage, Conversion, Children and Jewish Continuity: Some Demographic Aspects of "Who is a Jew?", in W. Frankel, A. Lerman (eds.) Survey of Jewish Affairs 1989. Oxford, Institute of Jewish Affairs - Basil Blackwell, 1989, pp. 171-187.

Mass "Aliyah" - A Thing of the Past? Jerusalem Quarterly, n. 51. Jerusalem, 1989, pp. 96-114.

Trasformazioni sociodemografiche degli ebrei a Trieste e in Italia nord-orientale (XIX e XX secolo), in G. Todeschini, P.C. Ioly Zorattini (eds.) Il mondo ebraico: Gli ebrei tra Italia nord-orientale e Impero asburgico dal Medioevo all'Italia contemporanea. Pordenone, Edizioni Studio Tesi, 1991, pp. 517-552.

The Demographic Context of the Soviet Aliya. Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Vol. 3 (16). Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 41-56.

New Data on Demography and Identification among U.S. Jews: Trends, Inconsistencies, Disagreements. Contemporary Jewry, Vol 12. New York, 1991, pp. 67-97. Appeared also in Judaica; Beitrage zur Verstandis des judischen Schicksals in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, vol. 50, n. 4, Basel, 1994, pp. 211-237.

Recent Trends in Jewish Marriage, in S. DellaPergola, L. Cohen (eds.) World Jewish Population: Trends and Policies. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1992, pp. 65-92.

Major Demographic Trends of World Jewry: The Last Hundred Years, in B. Bonne-Tamir, A. Adam (eds.) Genetic Diversity Among Jews: Diseases and Markers at the DNA Level. New York, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 3-30.

Israel and World Jewish Population: A Core-Periphery Perspective, in C. Goldscheider (ed.) Population and Social Change in Israel. Boulder, Westview Press, 1992, pp. 39-63.

Precursori, convergenti, emarginati: trasformazioni sociodemografiche degli ebrei in Italia, 1870-1945, in S. Simonsohn (ed.) Gli ebrei nell'Italia unita, 1870-1945, Italia Judaica, Vol. 4. Roma, Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Ufficio Centrale per i Beni Archivistici, 1993, pp. 48-81.

Modern Jewish Demography, in J. Wertheimer (ed.) The Modern Jewish Experience: A Reader's Guide. New York, New York University Press, 1993, pp. 275-290.

Histoire demographique du peuple juif: bref apercu, in S. Trigano (ed.) La societe juive a travers l’histoire. Paris, Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1993, Vol. 4, pp. 574-619, 727-732.

Demographic Changes in Israel in the Early 1990s, in Y. Kop (ed.) Israel Social Services, 1992-93. Jerusalem, The Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, 1993, pp. 57-115.

Jews in the European Community: Sociodemographic Trends and Challenges. American Jewish Year Book, Vol. 93. New York-Philadelphia, 1993, pp. 25-82.

Sociodemographic Surveys of World Jewry in the 1990s: Aims, Techniques, Implications, in U.O. Schmelz, S. DellaPergola (eds.) Papers in Jewish Demography 1989. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 1993, pp. 14-23.

Demographic Processes and Their Impact on the Identity and Survival of Minorities, in International Population Conference, Proceedings of the XXIInd General Population Conference. Montreal, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 1993, Vol. 3, pp. 89-98.

An Overview of the Demographic Trends of European Jews, in J. Webber (ed.) Jewish Identities in the New Europe. London, The Littman Library, 1994, pp. 57-73.

Changing Cores and Peripheries: Fifty Years in Socio-demographic Perspective, in R.S. Wistrich (ed.) Terms of Survival: The Jewish World Since 1945. London, Routledge, 1995, pp. 13-43.

(S. DellaPergola, F. Goldberg, with the Bibliographical Center of the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry) World Register of University Studies in Jewish Civilization, in M. Davis (ed.) Teaching Jewish Civilization: A Global Approach to Higher Education. New York, New York University Press, 1995, pp. 187-189.

La demografia del pueblo judio, Kivunim, Jerusalem, 1995, pp. 34-56.

Religious, Ethnic, Linguistic Identifications and Demographic Research. Organizer’s paper, 3rd European Population Conference, Milano, 1995, 14 pp.

Population and Society: Trends, Projections and Policy, in Y. Kop (ed.) Israel Social Services 1994/95. Jerusalem, Israel Center for Social Policy Studies, 1995, pp. 187-200 (Hebrew).

Betwen Science and Fiction: Notes on the Demography of the Holocaust, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Washington, D.C., United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Vol. 10, N. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 34-51.

The Demography of Contemporary Jewry, in The Tribes of Israel Togehter: A Dialogue with the President of Israel. Jerusalem, The President’s House, 1996, pp. 210-217.

Jewish Intermarriage in America: Some Thoughts of a Non-American, Gesher, Journal of Jewish Affairs, Vol. 42, n. 133. Jerusalem, The Institute of the World Jewish Congress, Summer 1996, pp. 7-24 (He).

(S.DellaPergola, G.Sabagh, M.Bozorgmehr, C.Der-Martirosian, S.Lerner) Hierarchic Levels of Subethnicity: Near Eastern Jews in the U.S., France and Mexico, in E.Krausz, G.Tulea (eds.) Sociological Papers. Ramat Gan, Bar Ilan University, Vol. 5, n. 2, 1996, pp. 1-42. (Presented at American Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion, Los Angeles, 1994.)

The Jewish People Toward the Year 2020: Sociodemographic Scenarios, in A.Gonen, S.Fogel (eds.) The Macro Scenarios: Israel and the Jewish People, pp. 37-41, 155-187. Haifa, The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1996, “Israel 2020” Master Plan for Israel in the 21st Century (Hebrew).

The World Jewish Migration System: Country-Level Data, 1881-1988, in Fonti archivistiche e ricerca demografica. Roma, Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Ufficio Centrale per I Beni Archivistici, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 1298-1323.

Roberto Bachi’s Contribution to the Investigation of Demography of the Jews, in In Memory of Roberto Bachi or the Thirtieth Day after His Death. Jerusalem, The Israeli National Academy of Sciences, 1996, pp. 13-25 (Hebrew).

Le systeme mondial de migration juive en perspective historique. Revue europeenne des migrations internationales, Vol. 12, n. 3, Poitiers, 1996, pp. 9-31.

World Jewish Population, American Jewish Year Book, Vols. 97-, New York, 1997- (yearly publication).

La popolazione ebraica in Italia nel contesto ebraico globale, in: C.Vivanti (ed.) Storia d’Italia. Gli ebrei in Italia, Torino, Einaudi, Annali, 11 ,1997, vol 2, pp. 895-936.

(S.DellaPergola, E.Bassan, U.Rebhun, D.Sagi) A Census of Jewish Schools in the Former Soviet Union for 1993/94 School Year. Journal of Jewish Education, Vol. 63, n.1-2, 1997, pp. 20-30.

(S.DellaPergola, U.Rebhun) Sociodemographic Aspects of Jews of Sephardi and Asian-African Origin in the United States in 1990, in M.Abitbol, G.Hasan-Rokem, Y.T.Assis (eds.) Hispano-Jewish Civilization after 1492. Jerusalem, Misgav Yerushalayim, 1997. pp. 105-135 (Hebrew).

(S.DellaPergola, S.Lerner) Jewish Population, Community and Continuity in Mexico: The 1991 Sociodemographic Study, in S. DellaPergola, J.Even (eds.) Papers in Jewish Demography 1993. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, 1997, pp. 325-347.

Aspects socio-demographiques de l’integration des minorites en Israel: convergences ou divergences? in J.L.Rallu, J.Courbage, V.Piche (eds.) Old and New Minorities -Anciennes et nouvelles minorites. Paris, John Libbey Eurotext, Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques - INED, 1997, pp. 229-250.

(U.Rebhun, S.DellaPergola) Socio-demographic and Identity Aspects of Intermarriage among the Jews of the United States, in I.Bartal, I.Gafni (eds.) Sexuality and the Family in History. Tel Aviv, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 1998, pp. 369-398 (Hebrew).

Popolazione ebraica, in S.Minerbi (ed.) Israele mezzo secolo, Quaderni Nuova Storia Contemporanea, supplemento n. 3/98, 1998, pp. 95-109.

The Global Context of Migration to Israel, in E.Leshem, J.T.Shuval (eds.), Immigration to Israel: Sociological Perspectives, Studies of Israeli Society, Vol 8. New Brunswick-London, Transaction, 1998, pp. 51-92. Also in D.J.Elazar, M.Weinfeld (eds.) Still Moving: Recent Jewish Migration in Comparative Perspective, New Brunswick-London, Transaction, 2000, pp. 13-59.

(U. Rebhun, S. DellaPergola, M. Tolts) American Jewry: A Population Projection, 1990-2020, in R.Rosenberg Farber, C.I.Waxman (eds.) Jews in America. Hanover/London, Brandeis University Press, 1999, pp. 33-50.

(A.Raas-Rothshild, R.Bargal, S.DellaPergola, M.Zeigler, G.Bach) Mucolipidosis Type IV: The Origin of the Disease in the Ashkenazi Jewish Population. European Journal of Human Genetics, 7,1999, pp. 496-498.

Arthur Ruppin Revisited: The Jews of Today, 1904-1994, in S.M.Cohen, G.Horenczyk (eds.) National Variations in Modern Jewish Identity: Implications for Jewish Education. Albany, SUNY Press, 1999, pp. 53-84.

Asimilacion/continuidad judia: tres enfoques, in J.Bokser-Liwerant, A.Gojman-Backal, H.B.Soriano (eds.) Encuentro y alteridad; Vida y cultura judia en America Latina. Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1999, pp. 467-485.

Fertility and Other Demographic Variables in Multicultural Jerusalem, 1995-2020, in C.Chiswick, T.Lecker (eds.) Contemporary Jewry, 20, New York, 1999, pp. 214-239.

(S.DellaPergola, U.Rebhun, M.Tolts) Prospecting the Jewish Future: Population Projections 2000-2080, American Jewish Year Book, Vol. 100, New York, 2000, pp. 103-146.

(S.DellaPergola, U.Rebhun, R.P.Raicher) The Six-Day War and Israel-Diaspora Relations: An Analysis of Quantitative Indicators, in E.Lederhendler (ed.) The Six Day War and World Jewry. Baltimore, University of Maryland Press, 2000, pp. 11-50 (forthcoming).

Some Fundamentals of Jewish Demographic History, in R.J.Desnick (ed.), Advances in Jewish Genetic Disease. New York, Oxford University Press, 25 pp. (forthcoming).

Jerusalem’s Population, 1995-2020: Demography, Multiculturalism and Urban Policies. European Journal of Population, Vol. 17, 2, 2001, 22 pp. (forthcoming).

Jewish Women in Transition: A Comparative Sociodemographic Perspective, in J.Frankel (ed.) Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 16, New York, 2000, pp. 209-242 (forthcoming).

Thoughts of a Jewish Demographer in the Year 2000; Marshall Sklare Award Address, in. R. Geffen (ed.) Contemporary Jewry, 21, New York, 2000, 20 pp. (forthcoming).

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