Jewish Population Growth Through the Ages

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The opening of this shiur, in Jewish History Soundbites’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] a date which will live in information [Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the Guerrera team members slain in West Germany the Olympic Games good job out of the 24 who were killed were out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn in heaven I say one million Jewish children who were made to be cut losers [Music] whoever heard such beautiful words it is never too little it is never too late and it is never enough different and we'll be discussing the history of Jewish demographics in other words the growth or questions surrounding the growth of the Jewish people um over the centuries and um it's a bit different first of all because it's very very macro it shouldn't cover a long range and also because demographics is not exactly history over here I'm just going to try to do a little bit of the history of demographics and a little bit of what the population growth of the Jewish people throughout history can tell us people throughout history can tell us um and therefore this is going to be a little bit of of a different uh idea in this episode and I hope it comes out okay and everyone enjoys and it answers some questions we may have about the history of Jewish demographics so first of all what is demographics it's simply the size or measuring the size of Any Given population and anything that those indicators those those size or number indicators can tell us about an ethnic group or nation in any given historical

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1. 0:02[Music] a date which will live in information [Music] both of those projects initiatives got off…
2. 4:12I pronounced that correctly um he's an Italian Jew but he's Israeli now he's a professor…
3. 8:20century but that means that the the birth capability the growth potential of Europe is completely…
4. 11:56weren't strong enough or they surround funding societies were very strong sometimes it was forced assimilation…
5. 16:01population explosion takes place in the 19th century in the tsarist Russian Empire in the pale…
6. 20:08lives in Eastern Europe or had recently emigrated from Eastern Europe which is fascinating and let's…
7. 23:45now uh like I said so there's there's a lot of uh changes in Jewish demographics…
8. 27:55May enhance the understanding of various associate and dependent processes and he goes on and he…
9. 31:32again this is Tanakh it tells us that there was between two and two and a…
10. 35:42provides plenty of statistical data some of these can be accepted at face value some others…

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