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: Mark.Tolts@mail.huji.ac.il)
Areas of Specialization: Demographic Statistics; Ethnicity; Family Demography;
Migration; Historical Demography and History of Demography
Subjects of Study: Demography of the FSU, especially of (ex-) Soviet Jewry; Demography of Jews in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe; Demography of the
Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora; Soviet/FSU Censuses; The Kulischer Family – Scholars of
World Migrations Selected Publications/Papers:
“Post-Soviet Jewish Demographic
Dynamics: An Analysis of Recent Data,” forthcoming in S. DellaPergola and U. Rebhun (eds.), Papers in Jewish Demography 2013.
New York: Springer, 2018. – 16 pp. “Demography of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora,” Z. Gitelman (ed.),
The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States,
Israel, and Germany. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016, pp. 23-40. “Demographic Transformations among
Ex-Soviet Migrants in Israel,” E. Lederhendler and U. Rebhun (eds.), Research
in Jewish Demography and Identity. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2015, pp. 146-168. “An Unnoticed Contribution to
Demographic Transition Theory,” Demographic Review. English Selection
(Moscow), 2015, Vol. 2, pp. 62-81 (with A.G. Vishnevsky). "Jewish Demography: From the
Soviet Past to the Post-Soviet Present," M. Beizer (ed.), History of
the Jews in Russia: From the Revolution of 1917 to the Fall of the Soviet Union.
Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2015, pp. 315-337 [in
Hebrew]. “Sources
for the Demographic Study of the Jews in the Former Soviet Union,” Studies
in Contemporary Jewry (New
York), 2014, Vol. 27, pp. 160-177. “For
Him London was a Fruitful Transitory Stop: The Migrant’s Destiny of Miron
Kantorowicz,” Jewish Journal of Sociology (London), 2014,
Vol. 56, No. 1-2, pp. 99-117. “The
Jews in Georgia in the Late Soviet Period: A Demographic Profile,” G.
Akhiezer, R. Enoch and S. Weinstein (eds.), Studies in Caucasian, Georgian,
and Bukharan Jewry: Historical, Sociological, and Cultural Aspects. Ariel
University, Institute for Research of Jewish Communities of the Caucasus and
Central Asia, 2014, pp. 102-116. “Post-Soviet Jewish Demographic
Dynamics: An Analysis of Recent Data,” Paper presented at the 16th World
Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 28 July – 1 August 2013 [Revised as of 18 February 2018]. - “Demography of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora,” Paper presented
at the conference on the contemporary Russian-speaking Jewish Diaspora, Harvard University, 13-15 November 2011.
- “Population
since World War I [up to the 21st Century]," The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe / Online Edition, 2010.
- “Migration
since World War I [up to the 21st Century]," ibid.
- “Mixed
Marriage and Post-Soviet Aliyah,” S. Reinharz and S.
DellaPergola (eds.), Jewish Intermarriage Around the World.
New Brunswick, USA
and London, UK: Transaction Publishers,
2009, pp. 89-104.
- “Post-Soviet Aliyah and Jewish Demographic Transformation” Paper presented at the
15th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 2-6 August 2009.
- “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, pp. 77-90.
- “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.
- “Population since World War I [up to the 21st Century],” 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 [up to the 21st Century],” ibid, 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.
“The Jews in the Three Post-Soviet Slavic Countries: Selected Population Trends,” W. Moskovich and L. Finberg
(eds.), Jews and Slavs, Vol. 19. Jerusalem and Kiev: Hebrew
University; [Ukrainian] Institute of Jewish Studies, 2008, pp. 200-208.
- “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.
- “After the Exodus:
Post-Soviet Jewry in the Contemporary World,” V.A. Iontsev (ed.), International Migration: Economics and Politics. Moscow:
Lomonosov University
of Moscow,
2006, pp. 62-70.
- "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.
- “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,
31 July - 4 August 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, S. 15-44; for internet
version in English, see: "Demographic Trends among the Jews of
the Former Soviet Union," Paper presented at the International Conference in
Honor of Professor Mordechai Altshuler on Soviet and Post-Soviet Jewry, Jerusalem, 28-30 December 2003.
- “The Post-Soviet Jewish Population in Russia and the World,” Jews
in Russia and Eastern
Europe (Jerusalem),
2004, No. 1 (52), pp. 37-63.
“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.
- “Statistical Analysis of Aliyah and Jewish Emigration from Russia,” V.A. Iontsev
(ed.), The World in the Mirror of
International Migration. Moscow:
Lomonosov University
of Moscow,
2002, pp. 172-186.
- “The Failure of Demographic Statistics: A Soviet Response to Population Troubles,”
Paper presented at the IUSSP XXIVth General Population Conference, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, 18-24 August 2001 [Revised as of 12 July 2012].
- “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, 7-9 June 2001.
- “Jewish
Population of the Russian Federation, 1989-1999,” W. Moskovich (ed.), Jews and Slavs, Vol. 9. Jerusalem and Vienna: Hebrew University
and University of Vienna, 2001, pp. 305-323 [Hebrew translation published in: The
Jews of the Former Soviet Union in Israel and in the Diaspora (Jerusalem),
2002, Vol. 5 (20-21), pp. 307-324].
- “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.
- “Jewsin Russia: A Century of Demographic Dynamics,” Paper presented at the
conference “Population of Russia in the 20th Century” (Moscow, 21–22 December 1998) [partly published in: Diaspory/Diasporas (Moscow), 1999, No. 1, pp. 180-198].
- “Yiddish in the Former Soviet Union Since 1959: A Statistical-Demographic Analysis,” Paper
Presented at the Conference “Yiddish in the Contemporary World”,
University of Oxford, 19-21 April 1998 (Revised as of 4 May 2012) [partly published in: 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: Frank 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.
World and Regional Jewish Population Projections: Russian Republic, 1994-2019 (Interim Report). Jerusalem: The Avraham Harman Institute of
Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (with S. DellaPergola and U. Rebhun).
- “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: Frank Cass, 1995, pp. 231-253.
-
“The Soviet Censuses of 1937 and 1939: Some Problems of Data Evaluation,” Paper presented at the International Conference on Soviet
Population in the 1920s and 1930s, Toronto, 27-29 January 1995 [Revised as of 30 May 2009].
- “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: Frank Cass, 1995,
pp. 365-382.
- “Figures
that Came in from the Cold,” Jews in Eastern
Europe (Jerusalem), 1994, No. 3 (25), pp. 79-84.
- “Changes in the Composition of the Jewish Population of the USSR: Aging and the Marriage Market," Yahadut
Zemanenu (Jerusalem),
1994, Vol. 9, pp. 243-258 [in Hebrew].
- “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.
- “Some Basic Trends in
Soviet Jewish Demography,” U.O. Schmelz and S. DellaPergola (eds.), Papers
in Jewish Demography 1989. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1993, pp. 237-243
- “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.
For Russian language
publications, see: Публикации на русском языке
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