Demography of a Shtetl. The Case of Piotrkow Trybunalski

Demography of a Shtetl. The Case of Piotrkow Trybunalski

Jankowski, Tomasz

Brill

09/2022

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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 Piotrkow Trybunalski


?8?Conclusions





2 The Jewish Town of Piotrkow


?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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Ashkenazi Jews; Congress Poland; Jewish History; Piotrków Trybunalski; demographic transition; demography of the Jews; east-central Europe; family history; fertility; historical demography; marriages; mortality; shtetl; social history