Israeli demographer and statistician
Sergio Della Pergola
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Sergio Della Pergola
(
Hebrew
:
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; born September 7, 1942, in
Trieste
, Italy) is an Italian-Israeli demographer and statistician. He is a professor and demographic expert, specifically in
demography
and statistics related to the
Jewish population
.
Biography
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Sergio Della Pergola was born to a Jewish family in
Trieste
when Italy was under
German occupation
. His grandfather had been a
rabbi
.
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After the
war
, the family settled in Milan where Della Pergola was an active member of Jewish youth movements and student organizations.
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He immigrated to Israel in 1966. He holds an MA in
political science
from the
University of Pavia
and a PhD. from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
and is a Professor Emeritus of
population studies
at
the Hebrew University
’s Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, where he was the Institute Chair and Director of the Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics and held the
Shlomo Argov
Chair in Israel-
Diaspora
Relations.
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Della Pergola is married to Miriam Toaff and has four children.
[4]
Academic career
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Della Pergola is a specialist on the demography of world Jewry and has published numerous books and over two hundred papers on
historical demography
, the family, international
migration
,
Jewish identification
, and
population projections
in the Diaspora and in Israel. He has written extensively about demography in Israel and Palestine. He has lectured at over 70 universities and research centers in Western Europe, North America and Latin America, and served as a senior policy consultant to the
President of Israel
, the
Israeli government
, the
Jerusalem
municipality, and many major national and international organizations.
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He served on the National Technical Advisory Committee for the 1990 and 2000-01 National Jewish Population Surveys and on the experts committee of the 2013
Pew Research Center
survey of Jewish Americans. He was Visiting Professor at the
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
in 2002-03, at
Brandeis University
in 2006, at the
University of Illinois at Chicago
(UIC) in 2009 and at the
University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA) in 2010. He is a member of the
Yad Vashem
Committee for the Righteous of the Nations.
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Awards
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In 1999, Della Pergola won the
Marshall Sklare Award
for distinguished achievement from the
Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry
(ASSJ) and his award presentation was entitled: "Thoughts of a Jewish Demographer in the Year 2000". In 2013, he was awarded the Michael Landau prize for Migration and Demography.
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