The Socio-Demographic Transformation of Russian Jewry in the Post-Soviet Era

The post-Soviet period has been a time of dramatic socio-demographic transformation in Russia during the move of its society to capitalism. Of course, these changes inevitably influenced the country’s Jewish population, and the aim of this presentation is to portray the effects of this great shift on Russian Jewry. In this presentation the increase of mixed marriage among this Jewry will be analyzed, as will the rising prominence of Hebrew and the demise of Yiddish, changes in Jewish educational attainments, the differentiation in the levels of higher education between Jewish females and males, and the transformations in the labor profile of Moscow’s Jews. In our presentation we will use indicators which were computed based on data from the last Soviet census of 1989 and the two Russian censuses of 2002 and 2010.