Demography of a Shtetl. The Case of Piotrków Trybunalski /

Demography of a Shtetl. The Case of Piotrków Trybunalski / / Tomasz M. Jankowski.

This quantitative study of Piotrków Trybunalski traces the evolution of the population in the typical early modern semi-agrarian town in which the majority of activity was concentrated in the Jewish suburbs into a provincial capital in Congress Poland. Through the use of longitudinal aggregations a...

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Superior document:Studia Judaeoslavica ; 14
VerfasserIn:
Jankowski, Tomasz M.,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studia Judaeoslavica ; 14.
Physical Description:1 online resource (238 pages)
Notes:A quantitative study of the pre-war population of Piotrków Trybunalski in Central Poland reveals key demographic similarities and differences between local Jews and non-Jews and places them in a European perspective.
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Table of Contents:
  • Note on Place Names and Their Transliteration
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Quality of Vital Registration
  • 1 Legal and Ideological Context
  • 2 Sex Ratio at Birth as a Quality Measure
  • 3 Regional Perspective
  • 4 Local Perspective
  • 5 Additional Indicators of Registration Quality
  • 6 Causes of Under-Registration
  • 7 Vital Registration in Piotrków Trybunalski
  • 8 Conclusions
  • 2 The Jewish Town of Piotrków
  • 1 What Is a Shtetl?
  • 2 The Twin-Town
  • 3 Economic Conditions
  • 4 Social Inequalities
  • 5 Naming Patterns and Social Attitudes
  • 6 Population Dynamics
  • 7 Conclusions
  • 3 Marriage and Household Formation
  • 1 Quality of Marriage Registration
  • 2 Age at Marriage
  • 3 Permanent Celibacy
  • 4 Marriage and Socio-Economy
  • 5 Remarriage
  • 6 Divorce
  • 7 Household Formation
  • 8 Endogamy and Social Networks
  • 9 Conclusions
  • 4 Births and Fertility
  • 1 Marital Fertility
  • 2 Premarital Conceptions and First Birth Interval
  • 3 Birth Intervals and Spacing
  • 4 Nonmarital Births
  • 5 Conclusions
  • 5 Deaths and Mortality
  • 1 Infant and Child Mortality
  • 2 Distribution of Age at Death
  • 3 Breastfeeding, Mortality and Natural Increase
  • 4 Maternal Mortality
  • 5 Causes of Death
  • 6 Local Health Care
  • 7 Conclusions
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Archival Primary Sources
  • Printed Primary Sources
  • Data Sources for Figures 3–7
  • Secondary Sources.

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