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The Jewish Emigration from the Former Soviet Union to Germany
Author(s) -
Dietz Barbara,
Lebok Uwe,
Polian Pavel
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2435.00189
Subject(s) - emigration , judaism , immigration , german , successor cardinal , soviet union , political science , population , fertility , economic history , government (linguistics) , demographic economics , development economics , political economy , demography , history , sociology , economics , politics , law , mathematics , archaeology , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy
Since the end of the 1980s a massive emigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union (FSU) can be observed. Israel and the United States were the most important receiving countries, followed by Germany, a comparatively new immigration destination for Jews from the successor states of the USSR. One of the reasons the German Government allowed the admission of Jews from post‐Soviet states was the Jewish community’s claim that this immigration might rejuvenate the German Jewish population in the longer run. Using an index of demographic aging (Billeter’s J), the following article examines if this has actually happened. Findings suggest that immigration actually initiated a process of rejuvenation in the Jewish population in Germany. However, it was reversed during the end of the 1990s because of an unaffected low fertility.