Sergio DellaPergola Editor & Author

Sergio DellaPergola (Ph.D.) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Hebrew University’s Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry. An internationally known specialist on the demography of world Jewry, he has published many books including Jewish Demographic Policies: Population Trends and Options (2011, Institute for Jewish People Policy) and over two hundred papers on historical demography, the family, international migration, Jewish identification, antisemitism, and projections in the Diaspora and in Israel. He was senior policy consultant to the President of Israel, the Israeli Government, the Jerusalem Municipality, and many major national and international organizations, and won the Marshall Sklare Award for distinguished achievement of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (1999), and the Michael Landau Prize for Demography and migration (2013).

Uzi Rebhun (Ph.D.) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor and former Chairman of the Hebrew University’s Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and incumbent of the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations. His areas of interest are Jewish migration, Jewish identification, the Jewish family, Israel-Diaspora relations, and population projections. His works mainly focus on American Jews and the Israeli population. His most recent book is Jews and the American Religious Landscape (2016, Columbia University Press).