Ashkenazi Demographic Boom after the Bottleneck

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According to Iwo Pogonowski (and his data has been confirmed by genetic studies of Ashkenazim):



From pages 13-14: "(...) Between 1340 and 1772, the Jewish population of Poland grew 75-fold, from about 10,000 to over 750,000. During the same period, the Christian population grew only 5-fold. This exceptional increase took place in large part between the 11th and 16th centuries, as a result of a massive movement of Jews from western Europe to greater freedom in Poland. Beginning in the 17th century, a steady trickle of Jews migrated west from the historic Polish lands, prompted by the Cossack uprising led by Khmelnitskiy in 1648. The Ukrainian Cossacks perpetrated the bloodiest massacres of Jews since the Romans. However, the tiny Jewish communities subsequently established in the west were much too small to generate a modern ethnic and political identity comparable to that of their parent community in Poland, which included the largest concentration of Jews in the world at that time. In the 17th century, the Polish Jewish population began to explode. Widespread Jewish teenage marriages resulted in unprecedented birthrates, considerably higher than amongst the rest of the population. Between 1650 and 1770 the number of Jews in Poland increased by over 300 percent to more than 750,000. (...) The Jewish population continued to grow throughout the Partitions of Poland (1795-1918), even though Jewish communal bodies lost the broad autonomy which they had previously enjoyed. (...)"

See also: ​https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...azi-bottleneck?p=538514&viewfull=1#post538514

 

[Angela]

Just thought you'd slip in a link to an article with a provocative, anti-Semitic title did you?

What's the matter? Wanted to see if I'm reading your threads? Just scroll down and you'll see if and when I'm reading any post. Or am I not paying enough attention to you lately? Or perhaps it's your bumbling attempt at propaganda? Quote something reasonably sane from a site and author of highly questionable provenance in order to intrigue some idiot, uneducated teenager or twenty-something year old? It's a fail whichever way you look at it.

As for the reason, I think we have some hints. Given their laws, more cleanliness and better hygiene than the people among whom they lived might have been partly responsible. The Biblical injunction to "honor" their wives every Sabbath night might also have had something to do with it. Not being drunk they also wouldn't have been incapable.