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- Messages
- 5,419
- Reaction score
- 1,336
- Points
- 113
- Location
- Poland
- Ethnic group
- Polish
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b-L617
- mtDNA haplogroup
- W6a
Interesting data about big differences in demographic developments of Jews in Russian vs. Austrian vs. Prussian parts of Poland in the 1800s:
Source is this book: http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/publication?id=83913
Apart from differences in natural growth rates between Jews in Russian/Austrian/Prussian territories, also migrations contributed to those changes.
For example, most of Jews from Prussian Poland emigrated further west to various parts of Germany (including Berlin) during the 1800s.
Some Jews - namely those who were poor - were also forcibly expelled from Prussian Poland by German authorities, into the Russian Empire, between years 1793 and 1806. There was also large-scale immigration of Litvaks (Jews from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) into Congress Poland, due to industrialization of the latter.
Meanwhile in Austrian-controlled Galicia, Jews emigrated to other parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
This is why the % of Galician Jews among the total Jewish population of Austro-Hungary was declining.
Source is this book: http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/publication?id=83913
Apart from differences in natural growth rates between Jews in Russian/Austrian/Prussian territories, also migrations contributed to those changes.
For example, most of Jews from Prussian Poland emigrated further west to various parts of Germany (including Berlin) during the 1800s.
Some Jews - namely those who were poor - were also forcibly expelled from Prussian Poland by German authorities, into the Russian Empire, between years 1793 and 1806. There was also large-scale immigration of Litvaks (Jews from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) into Congress Poland, due to industrialization of the latter.
Meanwhile in Austrian-controlled Galicia, Jews emigrated to other parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
This is why the % of Galician Jews among the total Jewish population of Austro-Hungary was declining.