"In honor of Professor Sergio DellaPergola upon his retirement from teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [The book's] contents--fifteen original papers by Prof. DellaPergola's students and scholars who worked with him at the Hebrew University and academic institutions abroad--cover a broad spectrum of topics in Jewish demography and identity, focusing on Diaspora communities and the population of Israel"--Preface.

Uzi Rebhun is the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently he is the Head of the A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University. He specializes in the demography of world Jewry, Jewish migration, Jewish identification, and the Jewish family.