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JEWISH MORTALITY RECONSIDERED

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2014

LAURA DANIEL STAETSKY  and
ANDREW HINDE
LAURA DANIEL STAETSKY*
Affiliation:
Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London, UK
ANDREW HINDE
Affiliation:
Social Statistics & Demography, University of Southampton, UK
*
1Corresponding author. Email: lstaetsky@jpr.org.uk
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It is known that mortality of Jews is different from the mortality of the populations that surround them. However, the existence of commonalities in mortality of different Jewish communities across the world has not received scholarly attention. This paper aims to identify common features of the evolution of Jewish mortality among Jews living in Israel and the Diaspora. In the paper the mortality of Jews in Israel is systematically compared with the mortality of the populations of developed countries, and the findings from the earlier studies of mortality of Jews in selected Diaspora communities are re-examined. The outcome is a re-formulation and extension of the notion of the ‘Jewish pattern of mortality’. The account of this pattern is based on the consistently low level of behaviourally induced mortality, the migration history of Jewish populations and the enduring influence of early-life conditions on mortality at older ages.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , May 2015 , pp. 376 - 401
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