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Will Your Grandchildren Be
Jewish?
Dating Jewish,
marrying Jewish, having Jewish kids...what are the odds that
your children and grandchildren will be Jewish? The following
chart uses the intermarriage rates and average number of kids
for several Jewish denominations to calculate how many Jewish
children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren a starting
population of 100 will produce.
(Based on the work of Anthony Gordon and Richard M.
Horowitz.)
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# of
Jewish descendants per generation, starting with a
population of 100 Jews in the first generation: |
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Unaffiliated |
Reform |
Conservative |
Modern Orthodox |
Orthodox |
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First Generation
(You) |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
Second Generation
(Your kids) |
36 |
51 |
62 |
151 |
295 |
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Third Generation
(Your grandkids) |
13 |
26 |
38 |
228 |
874 |
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Fourth Generation
(Your great-grandkids) |
5 |
13 |
24 |
346 |
2588 |
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Average Children Per Family |
1.62 |
1.72 |
1.82 |
3.23 |
6.4 |
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Intermarriage Rate |
72% |
53% |
37% |
3% |
3% |
See the data visually
(PDF format):
©
Anthony Gordon and
Richard M. Horowitz, used with permission
Learn more about the study from which this data is taken:
Will Your Grandchildren Be Jews? at simpletoremember
Will Your
Grandchildren Be Jews? at 613.org |
