Infant Mortality and Nefalim in Amsterdam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11253231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harmen Snel (Gemeente Amsterdam, corresponding author), Jits Van Straten |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 73-81 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-5440 • E-ISSN: 1940-1906 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3200/hmts.39.2.73-81 |
| OpenAlex | W2078404745 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
In Jewish burial books based on the registration of death according to Halakha (body of Jewish religious law), the term nefel (plural, nefalim) is used. It is a term used for the death of a fetus from 10 to 12 weeks after conception or an infant who has lived for 30 days after birth. Before historians knew the meaning of nefel, it was assumed that it involved only miscarriage. The authors maintain that knowledge of the number of live-born nefalim may show an increase in infant mortality by as much as 50 percent. Thus, the determination of Jewish infant mortality in periods when one had to rely solely on Hebrew sources—before the introduction of a compulsory registration system stating the age of the dead—must have been clearly underestimated and its effect on population increase must have been overestimated
Biology · Epistemology · Genealogy · Hebrew · Infant mortality · Judaism · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Miscarriage · Plural · Population · Pregnancy · Sociology · Classics · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Medicine · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |