Liebmann Hersch

Hersch in 1938

Pesach Liebmann Hersch (25 May 1882  – 9 June 1955), also Liebman Hersh (ליבמאן הערש), was a professor of demography and statistics at the University of Geneva,[1] and an intellectual of the Jewish Labor Bund,[2] whose pioneering work on Jewish migration achieved international recognition in the period after the First World War.[3]

  1. ^ "Dr. Liebman Hersh" [obituary]. New York Times, 11 June 1955.
  2. ^ Mishkinsky, Moshe (2007). "Hersch, Pesach Liebman". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 9 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
  3. ^ Alroey, Gur. "Demographers in the Service of the Nation: Liebmann Hersch, Jacob Lestschinsky, and the Early Study of Jewish Migration." Jewish History 20. 3/4 (2006): 265–282; here: 270, 276. doi: 10.1007/s10835-006-9006-3