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STATISTICS OF JEWS

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The present article on Statistics of Jews follows, in themain, the arrangement of data developed in previous issuesof the YEAR BOOK.

As will be seen from the list of tables, the article con-sists of five sections, to wit:

A. The Jewish Population of the United StatesB. The Jewish Population of the WorldC. Jewish Immigration to the United StatesD. Jewish Immigration to Other CountriesE. Jewish Imm igration to PalestineSection A has been written by Dr. H. S. Linfield, Director

of the Statistical Bureau of the Synagogue Council ofAmerica. This section is the result of a study of the Jewishpopulation of the United States in 1937, which Dr. Linfieldrecently completed.1

The figures for European countries are those of thelatest official censuses, taken in all cases before the out-break of the present war. These tables do not reflectterritorial changes which have occurred since. The effectof these changes, however, based on latest available esti-mates of reliable authorities, was discussed in the pre-ceding volume in a special note entitled "Changes in theDistribution of the Jewish Population of Europe 1933-1940," prepared by Mr. Moses Moskowitz, a member ofthe staff of the Research Institute on Peace and Post-WarProblems of the American Jewish Committee. In the presentvolume, Mr. Moskowitz has contributed a brief supple-

mentary note describing the changes which took placefrom July 1, 1940, to June 22, 1941, the date of the Naziinvasion of Soviet Russia, insofar as reliable informationon these changes is available.

1 For condensed report of this study see H S. Linfield'a "Jewish Communities of theUnited States," AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK, Vol. 42, pp. 215-266.

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LIST OF TABLES

A. The Jewish Population of th e United SlatesTABLE PAGE

I: NUMBER OF J E W S OF UNITE D STATES. PRINCIPAL COM-MUNITIES AND CONG REGATIONS, BY STATES, 1937. . 656

II: NUMBER OF URBAN PLAC ES, INCORPORATED AND U N I N -CORPORATED, AND RURAL AREAS, HAVING JEW ISHRESIDENTS, BY SIZE OF PLACE, 1937 657

III: NUMBER OF J E W S OF UNITE D STATES IN URBAN PLACESAND IN RURAL TERRITORY CLASSIFIED BY SIZE,

1937 657IV: NUMBER OF PRINCIPAL JEW ISH COMMUNITIES AND SUB-

ORDINATE JEWISH COMMUNITIES, AND NUMBER OFJEWS, CLASSIFIED BY SIZE OF THE JEW ISH POPULA-TION, 1937 658

V: NUMBER OF J E W S OF CITY OF NEW YORK AND PERMA-NENT CONGREGATIONS, BY BOROUGHS, 1937 . . . . 658

VI: NUMBER OF J E W S OF UN ITED STATES, PRINCIPALCOMMUNITIES, AND CONGREGATIONS, 1850-1937 . . 659

VII: L I S T OF CITIES OF UNITED STATES HAV ING 1,000 JEWS

OR MORE, 1937 660

B. The Jewish Population of the World

VIII: J E W S OF AMERICA, BY GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISION S ANDCOUNTRIES 667

IX: J E W S OF E U R O P E , BY GEOGRAPHICAL DIV ISIONS ANDCOUNTRIES 668

X: J E W S OF AFRICA, BY GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISION S ANDCOUNTRIES 669

XI: J E W S OF ASIA, BY GEOGRAPHICAL DIV ISIONS ANDCOUNTRIES 670

XII: J E W S OF AUSTRALASIA, BY COUNTRIES 670XIII: L I S T OF COUNTRIES AND THEIR JEW ISH POPULATIONS . .671XIV: L I S T OF IMPORTANT CIT IES AND THEIR JEW ISH POPU-

LATIONS 672

C. Jewish Immigration to the United Stales

XV: JEWISH IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED, DEPARTED, DEBARRED,AND DEPORTED, 1940 678

XVI: JEWISH IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED, BY SEX, AGE, CONJU-GAL CONDITION, ETC. , 1940 679

XVII: DESTINATION OF JEW ISH IMMIGRANTS, BY STATE,1940 680

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A. THE JEWISH POPULATION OFTHE UNITED STATES

By H. S. LINFIELD, PH.D.

Director, Statistical Bureau of Synagogue Council

According to the estimates prepared in 1937, a total of4,770,000 Jews reside in the United States. Of these atotal of 4,640,000 reside in 1,000 communities in each ofwhich there is one permanent congregation or more. Inaddition to these residents of independent or principalcommunities, a total of 130,000 Jews reside in cities, vil-lages, or rural areas without permanent congregations.These subordinate comm unities are dependent for con-gregational services upon neighboring principal commun-ities. The latter have a total of 3,730 congregations. Thisnumber represents an increase of over 19% during theten-year period 1927-1937, compared with an increase ofless than 13% in the number of Jews in the country, bothin the principal and in the subordinate communities.

The Jews of the United States are widely distributed.There are Jews in every state of the Union, and everysta te has one principal community or more. Each city of25,000 population or over, in every state, has Jewishresidents. The same is true of cities of 10,000 to 25,000,in many states, and even of cities of 5,000 to 10,000, insome sta tes. In the urban places of the country, number-ing nearly 2,850, 90 of every 100 places have Jewish resi-dents. In the rural incorporated villages of less than2,500, over 30 in every 100 villages have Jewish residents.Finally, in the unincorporated rural areas, numbering45,000, nearly 8 of every 100 areas have Jewish residents.

The proportion of Jews to the total population varies

between 16.70% in the sta te of New York and 0.21% inthe state of North Carolina. Jews constitute nearly 11%of the total population of the cities of 100,000 or over inthe country; 2.77% of the total population of cities of25,000 to 100,000; and between 1.22% and 0.63% of thetotal population of the other classes of urban places. The

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percentage of Jews to the total rural population is verysmall, being 0.38% of those in rural incorporated, and0.10% of those in rural unincorporated, places.

Of the utmost significance in our communal work is thefollowing: The New York Jewish community has 2,000,000persons, with nearly 1,350 permanent congregations. Inaddition there are

3 communities of over 100,000 Jews each,7 communities of 50,000 to 100,000,

13 of 20,000 to 50,000,35 of 8,000 to 20,000,76 of 2,000 to 8,000 Jews.

But in the case of nearly 850 of the 1,000 principal Jewishcommunities each is composed of 2,000 Jews or less, i. e.,about 500 families; while nearly 260 principal communitieshave less than 100 Jews each. Of the 9,580 subordinatecommunities, 103 have 100 or more Jews each, some havebetween 50 and 100, others between 10 and 50, while thevast majority of places have 10 Jews or less. This dis-tribution has both its weak and strong points, a knowledgeof which is required for intelligent communal planning.

The tables that follow give the distribution and thedensity of the Jews of the country by states, and the num-ber of principal communities and of congregations in eachone (table I) ; the wide distribution of Jews in urban places,incorporated and unincorporated, and in rural areas, bysize of place (table II); the density of the Jews in urbanplaces and in rural territory, by size of place (table III);the groups of Jewish communities and the number of Jewsin each one, classified according to the size of the Jewishpopulation (table IV); the distribution of the Jews of theCity of New York, by boroughs (table V); the growth ofthe American Jewish community between 1850 and 1937,covering population, principal communities and con-gregations (table VI); and, finally, a list of cities having1,000 Jews or more (table VII).

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656 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

TABLE I

NUMBER OF JEWS OF UNITED STATES, PRINCIPAL COMMUNITIESAND CONGREGATIONS, BY STATES, 1937

State

UNITED STATES

California

Dist . of Columbia . . .

IdahoIllinois

Louisiana

Massachuse t t s

Minnesota

New Hampsh i r e

Ohio

South Carol ina

U t a h

VirginiaWash ing tonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming

To t a lPopula-

tion1940

131,669,275

2 832,961499,261

1,949,3876,907,3871,123,2961,700,242

266,505663,091

1,897,4143 123 72.3

524 8737,897,2413,427,7962,538,2681,801,0282,845,6272,363,880

847,2261,821,2444,316,7215,256,1062,792,3002,183,7963 784 664

559,4561,315,834

110,247491,524

4,160,165531,818

13,479,1423,571,623641,9356 907 6122,336,4341,089,6849,900,180

713,3461,899,804

642,9612,915,8416,414,824

550 310359,231

2,677,7731,736,1911,901,9743,137,587

250,742

Jews1937

4,770,647

12,1481,8476,510

157,47121,37593,0806,587

18,35021,27623,781

1,138387,330

28.15514,0898,287

17,89414,942

9,00076,124262,945105,20141,728

4,60386,572

1,72914,579

3793,328

267,9701,179

2,206,3287,3332,744

183,5707,371

11,649434,616

27,8135,9051,963

25,81149,196

3,1662,000

25.06618,4227,213

39,917967

Princi-pal

Com-m u n i -

ties1937

9 6 7

132

1131

63821

1917

12923174

1014

1585724

81612

351

1299

31102083 9

73

132g

1527

3 729

1981622

2

Congre-ga t ions

1937

3,728

2 04

121012392

615302 7

218 94426

81721

236718 6

8 3351861

412

113

2364

1,56024a

1 2 51011

3502719

3186 0

41 0

34162245

2

P . C .of

Jews19371

3.70

. 4 4

.38

.342.401.955.542.552.991.220.780.234.960.830.560.460.640.6S

1.084.316.072.131.530.222 320.311.100.360.696.500.23

16.700.214.212.690.311.114.434.020.320.300.910.790.590.56

0.961.090.391.300.40

Distri-bution

ofJews1937

100.00

0 250.040.143.310.451.950.140.380.450.500 028.120.590.300.170.380.31

0.191.605.512.200.8710.101.810.040.300.010.075.620.02

46.250.150.063.850.150.249.110.580.120.040.541.030.070.04

0.530.390.150.840.02

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TABLE IINUMBER OF URBAN PLACES, INCORPORATED AND UNINCOR-

PORATED, AND RURAL AREAS, HAVING JEWISH

RESIDENTS, BY SIZE OF PLACE, 1937

N u m b e r

To ta lPlaces

PlacesHav ing

Jews

P . C. ofPlaces

Hav ingJews

Urban Places

Incorporated

100,000 and over25,000 to 100,00010,000 to 25,0005,000 to 10,0002,500 to 5,000

Unincorporated (1930 census)

Rural Incorporated PlacesRural Unincorporated Places . . .

Total Incorporated PlacesTotal Unincorporated Places

3,166

3,137

93'277'5848 51

1,332

128

13,43345,388

2,847

2,824

93'277'568761

1,124

123

4,1063,593

89.92

89.99

100.00100.0097.2689.4284.38

82.14

30.567.91

16,57145,416

6,9303,616

41.827.96

i In the census of 1930, 6 unincorp orated places of 25,000 to 100,000 and 22 un in-corporated places of 10,000 to 25,000, formerly regarded as rural, were classified asurban. Among these, each one of the 6 places of 25,000 to 100,000 and 17 places of the10,000 to 25,000 have Jewish residents.

'See note 1.

TABLE IIINUMBER OF JEWS OF UNITED STATES IN URBAN PLACES AND

IN RURAL TERRITORY, CLASSIFIED BY SIZE, 1937

Urban Places:

25 000 to 100 00010,000 to 25,0005,000 to 10,0002,500 to 5,000

Rural Incorporated PlacesRural Unincorporated Places

TotalPopulation

37,456,122

14,170,9929,688,6096,430,7864,927,255

9,292,57746,856,967

Jews

4,096,220

393,129118,55548,32930,964

34,89648,554

P.C.i

10.94

2.771.220.750.63

0.380.10

1 The percentages in this column have been corrected to correspond to the revisedfigures of the total population in 1937, published by the United States Census Bureauin March 1941 (see note to table 1). The percentages given in the writer's article inthe American Jewish Year Book of last year, page 223, are on the basis of the popula-tion census of 1930, and those percentages correspond to those of 1927 which wereon the basis of the 1920 population census.

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TABLE IV

NUMBER OF PRINCIPAL JEWISH COMMUNITIES AND SUBORDINATE

JEWISH COMMUNITIES AND NUMBER OF JEWS, CLASSIFIEDBY SIZE OF THE JEWISH POPULATION, 1937

Principal Communities ,

500,000 or over500,000-100,000100,000-50,00050,000-20,0002O.O0O-8 0008,000-2 0002,000-500500-100Less than 100 Jews

Subordinate Communities

100 Jews or moreLess than 100 Jews

Principal CommunitiesSubordinate Communities

Number

10,546

967

13713

3576

200374258

9,579

1039,476

4,770,647

4,641,184129,463

Distribution

100.00

0.100.310.721.353.627.861

20.68]38.6826.68i

100.00

1.0898.92

100.0097.29

2.71

TABLE V

NUMBER OF JEWS OF CITY OF NEW YORK AND PER-MANENT CONGREGATIONS, BY BOROUGHS, 1937

Borough

City of New York...

BronxBrooklynManhattanQueensRichmond

TotalPopula-

tion

7,454,995

1,394,7112,698,2851,889,9241,297,634

174,441

Jews

2,035,000

592,185974,765351,037107,855

9,158

Congre-gations

1,330

216567479

617

Per Centof Jews 1

27.84

43.5736.6418.64

8.725.39

Distri-bution

of Jews

100.00

29.1047.9017.25

5.300.45

1 The percentages in this column, which differ slightly from those given in thewriter's article of last year's American Jewish Year Book, page 225, have been cor-rected to correspond to the revised figure of the total population of the City of NewYork, namely 7,310,744 in place of 7,245,315 (see note to table 1).

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i 1900.>1848.

TABLE VI

NUMBER OF JEWS OF UNITED STATES, PRINCIPALCOMMUNITIES, AND CONGREGATIONS, 1850-1937

1850

187718971907191719271937

To t a lPopula t ion

23,191,876

43,661,96872,106,12088,787,058

103,690,473118,140,645128,823,308

Jews

'50,000

250,000937,8001,776,8853,388,9514,228,0294,770,647

P . C.

0.22

0.521.312.003.273.583.70

Increasein tenyears

89.4790.7224.7612.83

Princi-pal Com-muni t ies

44

174'3364265808 71967

Congre-gat ions

77

277' 8501,7691,9013,1183,728

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TABLE VII

LIST OF CITIES OF UNITED STATES HAVING 1,000 JEWSOR MORE, 1937

CityTotal

Popula-tion1940

Jews1937 City

TotalPopula-

tion1940

Akron, OhioAlbany.N. YAllentown, PaAltoona, PaAsbury Park, N. JAtlanta, G aAtlantic City, N. J

Baltimore, MdBangor, MeBayonne, N. JBeaumont, TexBelvedere Tnsp., Cal.., .Bethlehem, PaBeverly, MassBinghamton, N. YBirmingham, AlaBloomfield, N. JBoston, MassBraddock, PaBridgeport, ConnBrockton, MassBrookline Town. M ass...Buffalo, N .YBurlington, V tCambridge, MassCamden, N . JCanton, OhioCedarhuret, N \ YCharleston, 8 . CCharleston, W. VaChattanooga, TennChelsea, MassChester, PaChicago, IIICincinnati, OhioCleveland, OhioCleveland Heights, OhioColumbus, OhioDallas, TexDayton, OhioDenver, ColoDes Moines, l aDetroit, MichDuluth.MinnEast Orange, N..IEaston, PaEast St. Louis, 111Elizabeth, N . JElmira, N . YEl Paso, TexErie, PaEvansville, IndEverett, MassFall River, MassFallsbureh Town, N . Y. .

244,791130,57796,90480,21414,617

302,28864,094

859,10029,82279,19859,06137,19258,49025,53778,309

267,58341,623

770,81618,326

147,12162,34349,786575,90127,686

110,879117,536108,401

5,46371,27567,914

128,16341,25959,285

455,610878,33654,992

306,087294,734210,718322,412159,819

1,623,452101,06568,94533,58975,609

109,91245,10696,810

116,95597,06246,784

115,4285,682

8,4009,4003,0001,8001,840

12,00012,800

73,0001,65012,9001,2803,5401,1401,1152,9005,3001,100

118,0001,350

13,7653,9007,75021,8001,0004,5808,6004,2001,3502,5401,5003,800

21,2602,200

363,000

21,80090,00010,1509,250

10,4005,000

18 4004 000

90,0003,7002,1201,8001,150

11,7001,2802,2501,9001,7651,9205,9001,180

Flint, MichFort W ayne, IndFort Worth, TexFreeport, N . Y.Galveston, TexGary, I n d . ,Gloversville, N. Y

Grand Rapids,- MichGreat Neck N . YHammond, IndHarrisburg, PaHartford, ConnHaverhill, MassHazleton, PaHempstead. N . YHempstead Town, N .YHighland Park, MichHillside Township, N. JHoboken.N. JHolyoke, MassHouston, TexHuntington Town, N . YIndianapolis, IndIrvington, N. JJacksonville, F laJersey City, N. JJohnstown, PaKansas City, KanKansas City, MoKearny, N . JKingston, N. YKnoxville, TennLakewood Township, N. JLancaster, Pa

Lawrence, MassLawrence, N. YLewiston, MeLincoln, NebLinden, N. JLittle Rock, Ark.Long Beach, CalLong Beach, N . YLong Branch, N . JLos Angeles, CalLouisville, Ky.Lowell, MassLynbrook, N. YLynn, MassMcKeesport, PaMadison, WbMaiden, MassManchester. N . HMaywood, 111Memphis, TennMeriden, Conn

151,543118,410177,66220,41060,862

111,71923,329

164,2926,16770,18483,893

166,26746,75238,00920,856

259,31850,81018,55650,11553,750

384,51431,768386,97255,328

173,065301,17366,668

121,458399,17839,46728,589

111,5808,502

61,345

84,3233,64938,59881,98424,11588,039

164,2719,036

17,408,504,277319,077101,38814,55798,12355,35567,44758,01077,68526,648

292,94239,494

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TABLE VII Continued)

661

CityTotal

Popula-tion1940

172,17228,012

587,472492,370

78,72078,084

3,73767,362

167,402110,34168,68533,180

160,60530,456

494,53758,408

7,454,995429,76031,88337,06778,029

144,332

39,71439,89423,652

302,163204,424223,844

35,71781,86461,394

139,65675,79721,711

105,08741,242

1,931,33468,414671,65949,68437,46923,07373,643

305,39450,74540,478

253,50475,810

110,56834,405

193,042324,975

42,77518,613

105,958

Jews1937

7,5001,200

29,60020,700

1,0502,4001,3509,3004,2004,5203,3004,900

24,7002,0708,7006 400

2,035,00073,0002,2201,9501,2008,500

1,8501,9252,0007,4152,100

11,5001,2001,870

10,90024,000

1,1001,2501,5704,860

293,0001,00052,000

1,8303,4002,2003,650

10,7001,8752,250

23,8001,8703,0009,6357,500

23,4001,9001,6001,225

City

TotalPopula-tion

1940

Miami, FlaMiami Beach, FlaMilwaukee, WisMinneapolis, MinnMobile, A laMontgomery, AlaMonticello, N . YMount Vernon, N . YNashville. TennNew Bedford, MassNew Britain, ConnNew Brunswick, N . JNew Haven, ConnNew London, Conn.New Orleans, LaNew Rochelle, N . YNew York, N . YNewark,N.JNewburgh, N . YNewport News, VaNiagara Falls, k . YNorfolk, VaNorth Bergen Township, N . J .Norwalk, ConnNorwich, ConnOakland, CalOklahoma City, OklaOmaha. N ebOrange. N . J

P&ssaic, N . JPateraon, N . JPawtueket, E . I

^Perth Amboy, N . JPhiladelphia, PaPhoenix.ArizPittsburgh, P aPittsEeld, MassPlainfield, N . JPort Chester, N . YPortland, M ePortland, O rePortsmouth, VaPoughkeepsie, N . Y.Providence, R . IQuincy, MassReading PaRevere, MassRichmond, VaRochester, N . YRock Is land, IURockville Center, N . YSacramento, Cal

St. Joseph MoSt. Louis, MoSt. Paul, MinnSalem, MassSalt Lake City, UtahSan Antonio, TexSan Diego, CalSan Francisco, CalSanta Monica, CalSavannah, GaSchenectady, N . YScranton, PaSeattle, WashSheboygan, WisShreveport, LaSioux City, laSomerville, MassSouth Bend, IndSouth Orange. N . JSpokane, WashSpringfield, 111Springfield, MassSpring Valley, N . YStamford, ConnSteubenville, OhioStockton, CalSyracuse, N . YTampa, FlaTerre Haute, IndToledo, OhioTrenton, N . JTroy.N. YTulsa, OklaUnion, N . JUniontown, PaUniversity City, MoU t i c a . N . YWaco, TexWashington, D . CWaterbury, ConnWaukegan.IUWest Hartford Town, Conn,West New York, N . JWheeling, W. VaWhite Plains, N . YWichita, KanWilkes-Barre, PaWilmington, DelWinthrop, MassWoodbine ,N.JWoonsocket, R . IWorcester, MassYonkers.N. YYoungatown, Ohio

75,711816,048287,73641,213

149.934253,854203,341634,53653,500

95,99687,549140,404368,30240,63898,16782,364

102,177101,26813,742

122,00175,503

149,5544,308

47,93837,65154,714

205,967108,391

124,69770,304

142,15756,17321,81933,023

100,51855,982663,091

99,31434,24133,776

40,327114,96686,236

112,50416,7682,111

4 9 3 31 9 3 6 9 11 4 2 5 9 81 6 7 7 2

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B. JEWISH POPULATION OF THE WORLD

The statistics of Jewish population of the various coun-tries of the world given in the preceding volume were com-piled at a time when it was still possible to secure more orless reliable figures for most of the countries. The spreadof Nazi-German domination and the interruption of com-munications resulting from the present war have made itimpossible to secure information on the basis of whichfigures given last year can be revised. For this reason, thetables (VIII-XIV) giving the figures for the Jewish popu-

lation of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Austral-asia, and of important cities throughout the world, arereprinted in this volume virtually without change. Officialnew figures are available for only two countries, viz., theDominican Republic and Slovakia. The Jewish populationof the Dominican Republic, according to a census con-ducted during 1940, totalled 756; the Jewish population ofSlovakia, numbered 88,951, out of a general total of

2,653,564.The figures of Jewish population published in the pre-ceding volume show that the Jewish population of theworld was approximately fifteen and three-quarter millions;of this to tal, about nine million were living in Europe, aboutsix hundred thousand in Africa, eight hundred thousandin Asia, twenty-seven thousand in Australasia, and aboutfive million two hundred eighty thousand in America.

Distribution of the Jewish Population onthe European Continent

By MOSES MOSKOWITZ

In an article by the writer in the preceding volume,1 anattempt was made, on the basis of the most reliable infor-mation then available, to analyze the changes in the dis-tribution of the Jewish population of Europe up to July 1,

1 Changes in the Distribution of the Jewish Population in Europe 1933-1940, theAMERICAN JEW ISH YEAR BOOK, vol. 42, pp. 593-600.

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1940, resulting from Nazi persecution of Jews and fromNazi territorial annexations and conquests. The followingpages present a revised summary of the changes in dis-tribution on the basis of later information; it includesevents up to the Nazi invasion of Russia.

On the date of the invasion, June 22, 1941, half theJewish population on the continent of Europe, estimatedat well over 9,000,000, resided in Russia and Russian-occupied areas, while the other half lived in Germany andin countries and territories occupied or dominated by her.Figures for Russia published in October, 19402 showed atotal Jewish population of 4,600,000 divided as follows:

Old Russia 3,000,000Polish Areas 1,000,000Lithuania (excluding Vilna) 200,000Latvia 100,000Bessarabia 200,000Northern Bukowina 100,000

These figures are given in round numbers and we must,therefore, assume them to be rough approximations. Amore likely figure would be 4,700,000, which would accountfor the Jews in Vilna and Estonia as well as for the addi-tional 20,000 Jews in Old Russia as enumerated in thecensus of January, 1939.3

German figures made public on February 5, 19414 placedthe number of Jews in the Old Reich at 200,000, in Austria,at 50,000 and in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia,at 70,000. A Slovak census taken in February, 1941s gavea total of 88,951 Jews or persons classified as such. Norecent figures are available concerning the number of Jewsin the other occupied territories, who, on July 31, 1940,numbered 2,750,000.6 The conquest of Greece and Yugo-slavia during the Balkan campaign in April, 1941, placed

2 See Der Neue Gebiets-und Bevol kerungsstand der Sowjetunion, Wirtschaft undStatistik, Berlin, vol. 20, No. 19, October, 1940, pp . 4S0-452.

' Cf. AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK, op. cit. pp. 598-599, Table B, p. 600.1 New York Times, February 6, 1941.'Ibid., March 21, 1941.Polish territories 2,200,000, France 278,000, The Netherlands 186,817,

Belgium 82,000, Denmark, Norway and Luxembourg10,193. See AMERICANJEWISH YEAR BOOK, op. cit. Table B, p. 600.

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an additional 141,000 Jews under the Nazi yoke.7 Allowingfor a maximum of 100,000 who succeeded in emigratingfrom Europe, this would bring the total number of Jewsunder the direct rule of Nazi Germany to about 3,200,000.'The cession to Hungary of Northwestern Transylvaniaby Rumania, under the terms of the second Vienna Arbi-tration of August 30, 1940, increased the Jewish populationin Hungary from 631,287 in March 1939' to about 750,000,"and decreased the number of Jews in the rump RumanianKingdom to about 350,000."

It is extremely difficult to state with any degree ofaccuracy to what extent the figures cited above reflect theactual conditions in Europe. With certain exceptions, mostof these figures are based on data which were valid beforethe Hitler war and do not take into account the number ofJews affected by the shifting of populations and the highdegree of mortality, since September 1, 1939. Thus, forexample, it is an established fact th at m any Jews formerlyresiding in Russian-occupied Poland have been deportedto Siberia, while many formerly living in conquered WesternEurope have been dumped into the Lublin area, in German-occupied Poland.12 An additional mass have been uprootedfrom their homes from Alsace and Lorraine and from Badenand the Palatinate and shipped to Southern France. Thenumber affected by these shifts is not known. Similarly,little is known of the number of Jews who were killed in theareas of combat or who died of starvation, epidemics and

other causes resulting from the war.It is also difficult to obtain authoritative figures concern-

ing the number, origin and destination of Jewish emigrantssince January 1, 1940. This is due partly to the impossi-bility of organized emigration under conditions of war, and

* Technically this may not be correct, since Yugoslavia has been occupied jointly byGermany, Italy and Bulgaria, while Greece was jointly occupied by Germany and Italy.The formal disposition of the conquered Balkan territories has not yet been completed,but it would appear that the Jewish populated areas in Serbia and Greece (Salonika)are in German hands.

Cf. AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK, op. dt. Table B, p. 600. See Table B, AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK, op. cit. p. 600.w See "Wirtschaft und Statist *," op. cit. vol. 21, No. 1, January. 1941, p . 17.u Cf. Table B, AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK, op. cit.la A Report on Assistance to Overseas Communities of the Joint Distribution Com-

mittee dated July 17, 1941 places the number of these at 30,000.

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partly to the breakdown of the transportation system.Thus, for instance, it is frequently difficult to differentiate

between points of debarkation and ultimate destination.This observation applies especially to Shanghai, but alsoto points in Central and South America.

The Joint Distribution Committee estimates that be-tween January 1, 1940 and May 31, 1941 a total of 75,000Jews had left Europe. Their principal countries of originwere as follows :13

Germany 20,000Austria 9,000Czechoslovak territories 7,000France 11,000Belgium 1,000Holland 1,500Switzerland 2,200Lithuania 1,900Other countries including

stateless 21,400Total 75,000

to about 100,000.

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TABLE VIII

JEWS OF AMERICA, BY GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS AND COUNTRIES

A LL C O U N T R I E S

North America and West

United States (Cont inental)Alaska .Canada

Cuba

Haiti

South and Central America

BrazilChile

Guiana (British)

Genera lPopulat ion1

259,359,758

167,772,827

128,823,00059,278

10,376,78616,552,7224,227,587

101 0211,581,2483,000,0001,173,6451,826,338

22,01229,190

91,586,931

12,958,21744,115,825

4,597,2548,701,816

623,4143 001,715

337,521962,685c

1,172,324467,459c954,848

6 500,0001,459,594

173,0892,093,3313.467.839 '

Year

193719301931193019381938193719361938193819301936

1939193919371938193919371938193419381930193819361939193819381936

JewishPopulat ion

5,282,840

4,957,772

4,770,000600

155,614c20,000

7,800566756c150

2,0001506274

325,068

260,00040.000

3,697c2,045

500350

1,00025100

850c1,2001,500

120799

12,000882c

Year

193719381931193519331929194019361935193819381938

1935193319301935193919381938193819381930193019351939193819301926

PerCen t

2.04

2.96

3.70

1.50

0.005

0.01

0.36

0.08

0.30

0.010.18

0.010.46

1 The letter "c" following a figure indicates that it is based on a census.* Es tim ate for 1935, 15,000.8 N ot including 23,320 Venezu elans resident ab roa d.

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TABLE IXJEWS OF EUROPE, BY GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS AND COUNTRIES

A L L C O U N T R I E S

Central Europe

Northwest Russia1Poland

White Russia1. .Ukraine1

Western and Southern Europe

Great Britain and Northern

Irish Free StateItaly

Turkey (Europe)1"YugoslaviaNorthern Europe

Finland...

Russia (R. S. F. S. R., ex-clusive of Crimea andthe Nor thwes t )1

Sweden

Genera lPopula t ion

522,313,405

132,076.127

713 8239,807,096

407.51710,817,286

1,950,5022.879,070

13,450,53334,775,69819,933,802

5 439,40031,901,400

301,767,522

1 003,1248,386,5536,077,939

376 5293 706 349

41 905 96879,576,758c"

20 339

46,178 ,884 '

6,204,6842,968.42042,527,561

296,913241,621

8,639,5957,460,195

25,240,9714,066 4001,185,719

15,703,000

88,469,756

1,126,4133,834,6622,814,194

74,384,2736,310,214

Y r.

19261938192919391935194019261939193919331933

19301938193419381935193619391939

1931

19281936193619351931193719381939193019271940

193419371930

19261938

JewishPopulation

8,939,608

7,428,125

45 926c356,830c2

10,448c444,567c '

93,479c1155,125c'326,363c

3,113,900cs900,000407 059

1,574,428c

1,326,721

2 0 460,00048,398c

75c5 690

240 000240,000 '

886c

300,000

72,791c3,686c47,825c

3,14435

156 8 1791 2004,000

17 973c55,592c68,405c

184,762

4 302c1,755l,3S9c

170,6936,653c

Y r .

192619301929"19301935192319261931193919261926

19301934193419311930193619391931

1931

19281926193119351920193319311934193019271931

193419371830

19261930

PerCent

1.71

5.62

6.43

2.56

4.79

2.43

4.51

0.44

0.02

0.80

0.570.90

0.65

1.17

1.06

0.444.69

0.21

0.380.050.05

0.23

1 T ot al po pu latio n of Soviet Un ion , acco rdin g to census of 1939 is 170,467,186;Jewish population, 3,020,141. Separate figures for the component republics are notavailable at this t ime.

3 N um be r of Jew s in terri to ry w hich was forme rly C zechoslo vakia. According to acensus tak en in Slovakia in 1940, the re were 88,951 Jews out of a total population of2,653,564 (3.35%).

3 Exclusive of the number of Jews in the annexed Czechoslovak terri tory-I On basis of natio nali ty. Of these, 88 ,552 are Latv ian cit izens.6 Ex clusive of the nu m be r of Jew s in the distr ict of M e m e l of 141,274 inhabitantson January 1, 1925.

a Including former Au stria (6,760,233 in 1934) an d Sud eten land (3,653,292). Inclu ding former A us tria (191,481 in 1934 an d 6 0,000 in 1939), an d t he num ber of

Jews in the Sudeten area, formerly part of Czechoslovakia.8 Total population of Northern Ireland, census 1937, is 1,279,745.8 The returns of the 1935 census give 111,917 Jews, exclusive of the possible number

of Jew s amon g the 1,144,393 en um erated as of "no religion " an d 185 as of "unknownreligion."

10 To tal popu lation , according to 1935 census, is 16,158 ,018; Jewish population,78 ,730. Se pa rate figures are not availab le, a t thi s time , for Eu ro pe and for Asia.I I

Since this census was taken, v^ uwiyMiii -wirf1

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TABLE X

JEWS OF AFRICA, BY GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS AND COUNTRIES

A L L C O U N T R I E S

Northern Par t (Arab ic -Speaking Countr ies)

AlgeriaEgypt 'L i b y a 'Morocco (French)Morocco (Spanish)

Southern Par t (Black Afr ica) .

Congo (Belgian)

Northern RhodesiaPortuguese East AfricaSouthern RhodesiaSouth-West AfricaTanganyika (German

East Africa)Union of Sou th Afr ica

Gen .Popula t ion

77,969,589

33,789,653

7,234,684 '15,904,525888 ,4016,298,528

795,20260,000

2.608,313" '

44,179,936

7,600,00010,329,284 '

3 ,365 ,888 '1,376,325'4 ,995 ,750 '1,303,775*

358,532 '"

5,260,484"9,589,89s12

Y r.

1936193719381936193619361936

1936193919381935193619361936

19381936

JewishPopula t ion

598,339

453,438

110,1277 2 , 5 5 0 "30,046

161,312c112,918c"

7,00059,485c

144,901

51 ,000177305c426c100

2,021c200

1090,662

Y r .

1931193419381936193619361936

1936192319311931192319311925

19311936

P e rCen t

0.77

1.34

3.382.561.62

11.672 .48 '

0.33

0.95>3

1 Of a t o t a l of 717,663 in census of 1931, there were 552,663 in Trip olitan ia, including21,342 Jews, and 165,000 in Cyreitaica, including 3,000 Jews, practically all in thetown of Bengazi . The total includes 48,749 Europeans; 29,749 in Tr ipo l i t an ia and19,000 in Cyrena ica .

1 Na t iv e Jews . Percen tag e is of to ta l nat ive popu lat ion.

The

n u m b e r of

Jews residing at

Alcazar, Arxila, Larache, and

Te t u a n .* Including 987,252 Eur opea ns.s Including 25,200 Europeans.1 Including 34,971 Europeans and A rabs .7 Including 9,900 Eu ropeans .I Including 45,750 non-nat ives .' Including 55,408 Europeans.18 Including 30,505 Eur opea ns.II Including 9,165 Eu ropeans .

Including 2,003,857 Europeans.4.52 of the to ta l whi te populat ion .Official estimate; 1927 census, 63,550 ( 0 . 45%) .Falashas .

16 Including 213,205 Eu rop ean s.

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TABLE XIJEWS OF ASIA, BY GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS AND COUNTRIES

ALL COUNTRIES

Palestine and Neighboring

Palestine

Syria. Lebanon, Latakia,Djebel Druze

Aden and Perim

Asia Minor, Central andNorthern Asia

PersiaRussia (R. S. F. S. R.) in ABiai.Transcaucasian Republic 1 ....Turkmenistan'Turkey (in Asia)'

Eastern and Southern Asia...

British Malaya

India (States and Agencies). .Indo-China (French)Empire of Japan

Gen.Population

1,022,426,997

18,069,330

1,466,536364,000

3,630,0003,560,456

9,000,00048,338

69,732,172

10,000,00015,000,00018,845,621

7,110.8001,268,900

12.462,5515,044,300

934,625,495

1,372,568457,835,475

1,028,619352,837,778

23.853,50097,697,555

Y r.

19391934

19351935

19381931

1939193519261933193319271933

193919361938193119381935

JewishPopulation

839,809

570.745

424.373200

26,051c90,970c

25,0004,151

222,920

5,00040.00049,571c62,194c

2,041c26,280c37,834c

46,144

703c19,8503

25024.141c

1.000'200

Y r.

19391934

19331935

1931

1929193519261926192619271926

192119351935193119241938

PerCent

0.08

3.16

28.940.05

2.56

8.59

0.32

0.050.270.26

0.21

0.005

0.01

1 See footnote' Table X.3 Total population, according to 1935 census, ia 16,158,018; Jewish population,78,730. Separate figures are not available, at this time, for Europe and for Asia.

Including 8,000 in Harbin, 5,500 in Shanghai, 3,500 in Tientsin, and 1,000 inMoukdenest. of Shanghai Lodge B'nai B'rith.

* The number of Jews residing at Haiphong, Hanoi, Saigon and Tourane.

TABLE XIIJEWS OF AUSTRALASIA, BY COUNTRIES

Countries

ALL COUNTRIES

Hawaii

Philippine Islands

Gen.Population

24,602,887

6,629,839414,991

1.573,810115,984,247

Y r.

1933193819361939

JewishPopulation

27,016

23,553c310

2.653c500

Y r.

1933193419361934

PerCent

0.11

0.36

0.17

Including Maoris (63,670).

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TABLE XIII

A LIST OF COUNTRIES AND THEIR JEWISH POPULATIONS

Name of Country Number of Jews Name of Country Number of Jews

AbyssiniaAden and PeriraAfghanistanAlaskaAlbania

AlgeriaArabiaArgentinaAustraliaBelgiumBrazilBritish MalayaBulgariaCanadaChileChinaColombiaCongo (Belgian)Costa RicaCubaCuracaoCyprusCzechoslovakiaDanzigDenmarkDominican Republic.EgyptEsthoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGibraltar

Great Britain andNorthern Ireland..GreeceGuatemalaGuiana (British)Haiti '.HawaiiHondurasHong KongHungaryIndiaIndo-China (French).IraqIrish Free StateItalyJamaica

51,0004,1515,000

600204

110,12725,000260,000

23,55360 00040 000

70348,398

155,6143,697

19.8502,045

177500

7,80056675

356,83010,448

5,690756

72,5504,3021,755

240,000240.000

886

300,00072,791

3501,000

ISO310

25250

444,56724,141

1,00090,970

3,68647,8252,000

JapanJugoslaviaKenyaLatviaLibyaLithuaniaLuxemburgMaltaMexicoMorocco CFrench)Morocco (Spanish)....Netherlands.New ZealandNicaragua NorwayPalestinePanamaPanama Canal Zone.. .ParaguayPersiaPeruPhilippine Islands....PolandPorto RicoPortugalPortuguese East AfricaRhodesia (Northern). .Rhodesia (Southern). .RoumaniaSalvadorS. W. AfricaSoviet Russia

SpainSurinam (DutchGuiana)

SwedenSwitzerlandSyria and LebanonTanganyikaTangier ZoneTransjordanTunisiaTurkeyUnion of South Africa.United States'UruguayVenezuelaVirgin Islands

20068,405

30593,47930 046

155,1253,14435

20,000161,312

12,918156.817

2,653100

1,359424,373

85074

1,20040.000

1,500500

3,113,900150

1,200100426

2,021900,000

120200

3,020,141

4.000799

6 65317,97326,051

107,000

20059,48578,73090 662

4,831,18012,000

88262

1 See footnote 1 on next page.s Continental; not including Jews in Alaska and other possessions.

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TABLE XIV

LIST OF IMPORTANT CITIES AND THEIR JEWISH POPULATION*

NOTE: Superior figures next to population figures indicate year of census or estimate; e. g., indi-cates 1935; M indicates 1936; etc.

Name of City GeneralPopulation

JewishPopu-

lation 1Name of City General

Population

JewishPopu-lation 1

AdrianopolAlexandriaAlgiersAmsterdamAntwerp

Bagdad* (Iraq)BaselBelgrade (Yugoslavia)Berdichev(U.S.S.R.).BerlinBialystokBirminghamBombayBratislavaBreslauBrussels*BucharestBudapestBuenos Aires

CairoCalcutta*Cape TownCologne (see Koln)...Constantine (Algeria).CopenhagenCracowCzernowitz

DamascusDublinDvinsk

EdinburghFlorenceFrankfurt a. M

GenevaGlasgow

36,000"682,101"252,321**781,660"273,317^8

5,697c2727,200*323,550c3165,558s322.00021

499,410's

148 ,063"266.84SW1

53,100s'4,332,242"

76,7921,002,603"1.161.383"

138,000"625,198'"912,774'"648 ,162"

1,115.877"2,317,755"1.307,422"1,485.582"

119,173"

106.830'"843 ,168"219 ,286"109 ,698"193,912"309 ,272"

45 .160"

42,799c'*2 ,563c"8,936c"

30,812c 195,000s939,602

6 ,000"8 ,620"

15,060"20,202c'"20.0002'50,000*'

204,37 lc '120,0003 8 , 1 0 0 "

1,200"11.0792"

13,110c"5 .640"

45 ,828c"43,555*10,0003 , 5 0 0 "

11 , 11 6 ^

420,264"319,141"546,649"

1,088,417"

1,500"2.586"

26,158c"

2,224c"15,000 s9

HaifaHamburgHarbin ,Hull

Istanbul

JaffaJassyJerusalemJohannesburg,

KharkovKievKishinevKolnKovno

LeedsLeipzigLeningradLibau (Latvia)LisbonLiverpoolLodzLondon'LublinLwowLuxemburg. . .

Manchester. . .

MarseillesMinskMontrealMoscow

Newcastle

104,800"1,682,220"

330,436"287,013"

741,148"

77,400"104,471"129,800"203.298"

833,432"846,293"112,500"756,605"152,365"

458,320"701,606"3,191,304"

57,098"594.390"855.688"604.629"

8.282.118"112,285"312,231"

57,740"

989,775

914,232"180,900"818,577"

4.137,018"

274,955"

58,000"16,885c"

8,000"2,500"

47,173c"

15.000"45,000"79,000"25,826c

81,139c140,256c

80.000"14,816c"25,044c"

25,000"11,564c"84,503c"

7,368c1,150"7,000"

191,720c"233,991"

38,001c"75,316c"

1,395"

37,500

2,000"53.686c* 1

57,710c"131,747c"

2,500"

*Not including cities of the United States, which are listed on p. 660.1 It should be borne in mind that the figures for the number of Jews arrived at on the basis of

a religious or nationality census, are minima. This is partly due to the fact that there is some-times a tendency on the part of census enumerators to minimize the number of persons of a minorityreligion or nationality, and partly because some Jews report their nationality as that of the ma-jority population, or decline to answer the question as to religion or nationality. For example, inthe 1921 census of Czechoslovakia as many as 724,507 persons refused to give their religious affilia-tion. The number of Jews for that country given in this article does not include the possible num-ber of Jews among those that refused to give their religious affiliation.

* Figure for "Liwa," i. e.. Administrative district.* Greater London, Administrative County has 184,063 Jews. * Including suburbs.

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TABLE X IV (Cont.)


JewishP o p u -lation


JewishP o p u -lation

OdessaOran (Algeria)Oslo

Panama CityParisPrague

Rabat ( M o r o c c o ) . . . .RigaRome

SalonicaSarajewo (Jugoslavia)Shanghai*SmyrnaSofiaStockholmStrasbourg

604,223194,746"253,124

74,409302,829 .746"

848,081

153,243c"20,490c

749c

471c'175,000"35.463c

83 ,379"385.063" '

1,148,948"

236 ,524"78.173i

3 ,489 ,998"170,546"'287 .976"497 ,367"181 .465"

3,676c"43.558cll,280 i

55,250c "9.320"5.500"'

16.215c"25 ,863c*

3,432c"7,000"i

Tallinn ( E s t h o n i a ) .Tel-AvivTorontoTriesteTripoli ( L i b y a ) . . . .Tu n i s 'Turin (Italy)

Vienna

WarsawWellington (N . Z . ) .WilnoWinnipeg

Zagreb (Jugoslavia)Zurich

127,000='130.300"1631,207"2 4 2 , 6 8 1 "108.240""219 ,578"623 ,454"

1,918,462>

1,171,898"149,971""207,750"218,785"

185.581"337,164"'

1,929c"130,300"45,205c i

4 ,627"15,590"'27,345"'

3,758"

178,034c"

333,354c'1

896c=54,596c"17,153c i

9,500"6,700"

* Including s ubu rbs .' Exclusive o f Europeans .

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C. IMMIGRATION OF JEWS TO THE

UNITED STATES1. During the Year Ended June 30 1940

Admissions and Departures. During the year endedJune 30, 1940, a total of 36,945 Jewish immigrants wereadmitted to the United States, IS percent less than in thepreceding year (43,450). During the same period, 150

Jews emigrated from the country. The net increasethrough immigration was thus 36,795.

Deportations and Debarments. D urin g th e fiscal yea r,ended June 30, 1940, a total of 78 Jews previously ad-mitted were deported, and 342 applying for admissionwere debarred. The former number represents 0.21% ofthe net increase of Jewish immigrants over emigrants,while the number of debarred constitutes 0.93% of thoseadmitted. These percentages continue to be very low.With the exception of the preceding year, when it waseven slightly lower, the percentage of the deported is thelowest since 1923; and the percentage of the debarred isthe lowest on record in any year. There was also a slightdrop, compared with the preceding years, in the percent-ages of both debarment and deportation for the immigra-tion as a whole, though the ratios are still very muchhigher than for the Jewish immigration. Thus, the per-centage of all deportations to the total net increase forthe year was 14.11% (14.56% for the preceding year), andthe percentage of the total debarred was 7.49% of thetotal admitted (7.83% for the preceding year).

Countries of Origin. Since 1931, there has been adecrease of Jewish immigration from a group of adjacentcountries in Eastern Europe in which live almost half ofthe total number of Jews in the world.1 For a number ofyears before 1931, these countries contributed close to

1 Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Russia.

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two-thirds of the total Jewish immigration to the UnitedStates. In th at year, the Jewish immigration from thesecountries dropped from 64.95% to 56.24% of the totalJewish immigration; the percentage remained approxim-ately stationary in 1932 (57.31%), and in 1933 (57.29%).In the latter year, Jewish immigration from Germany,which had theretofore been negligible, began to becomenumerically significant, although only 3.04% for the yearending June 30, 1933. In the following year, however, theimmigration from Germany was 43.20% of the total,whereas the immigration from the former major sourcesof Jewish immigration dropped to 27.94% of the totalJewish influx. In 1935, the number coming from Germany(34.80% of the total) almost equalled the number fromthe Eastern European countries. In 1936, the immigrationfrom Germany rose to 52.53%, while the admissions fromEastern Europe fell to 21.32%, of the total Jewish immig-ration; and from 1937 on, the difference has been becomingsteadily more and more pronounced.

The number of Jews coming from Germany during1940 was more than half of the total Jewish immigration(53.81%); only 9.17% came from Eastern Europe, and37.02% from the remaining countries. Of the latter groupof 13,677 immigrants, 4,099 came from Great Britain,1,607 from France, 1,432 from The Netherlands, 1,382from Belgium, 967 from Canada, 757 from Palestine, 733from Italy, 598, from Switzerland, 516 from Cuba, and therest from other countries. It is not possible to state howmany of the immigrants from these countries were origi-nally permanently residing in Germany.

Destination of Imm igrants. Jewish immigrants to theUnited States during the fiscal year were destined to allthe forty-eight states and the District of Columbia, thestates ranking highest being New York, Illinois, California,

New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, andMichigan, in the order given; these states were the des-tination of fully nine-tenths (90.05%) of the total Jewishimmigration.

Sex. Of the total number of Jewish immigrants admit-ted during the fiscal year, 50.03% were males and 49.97%

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were females; while for the immigration as a whole, thepercentage of males was lower than that of females (47.29%males and 52.71% females).

Age. Compared with that of the tota l immigration,the age distribution of the Jewish immigrants shows alower percentage of the group between 16 and 44 yearsof age, and a higher percentage of the older group; thepercentage of Jewish children is also slightly higher. Thus,of the number of Jewish immigrants, 14.78% were childrenunder 16 years of age, 55.36% were persons between 16and 44, and 29.86% were 45 years or over; while of thetotal immigration, the corresponding percentages were13.57% for those under 16, 63.64% for the 16-44 group,and 22.79% for the older group.

Conjugal Condition. The largest proportion of immi-grants arriving in the country was in the group of marriedpersons 55.17% among the Jewish immigrants and53.15% among the total. The next largest group was tha tof single persons: 38.58% for the Jewish immigrants, and41.10% for the total . Of the remaining immigrants, 4.98%were widowed and 1.27% were divorced, among the Jews;and 4.63% widowed and 1.12% divorced, among the total.

Fam ily Character of Jewish Immigration. The differ-ence, even if slight, in age grouping of the Jewish immigra-tion from the total indicates that the Jewish immigration

is more largely of a family character. This is also evidentfrom the fact that a higher proportion of the Jewish immi-grants (84.83%) came to join relatives as compared withthe total immigration (79.88%); and only 4.18% of theJewish immigrants had neither relatives nor friends here,as compared with 9.29% for the total immigration.

Financial Condition. The Jewish immigrants (52.21%of the total) brought in more than half (53.14%) of theaggregate amount of money shown to be in the possessionof all the immigrants. The number of immigrants showingthe possession of money was 73.35% for the total and69.42% for the Jews.

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STA TISTICS OF JEW S 677

2. During the Six Months, JulyDecember 1940

For the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1941, complete

official figures for only the first six months were availableat the time this article was written. These figures showthat the number of Jews admitted during this period(10,547) was 40.65% of the total immigration and thatJewish immigrants exceeded Jewish emigrants by 10,498.

Of the general immigration the excess of admissions overdepartures was 17,261. The proportion of Jews debarredduring the six months was practically the same as for thepreceding fiscal year (6.44% during the six months, and6.45% during the preceding year); but the proportion ofJews deported was a little higher (1.46% during July December, compared with 1.12% during the precedingfiscal year).

3 . From 1881 to 1940

Of the earlier waves of Jewish immigration to the UnitedStates, which were made up chiefly of immigrants fromSpain, Portugal, and Holland, and from Germany, no reli-able statistics are available. Such statistics were recordedonly beginning in 1881, but these are not complete for theentire period since then. For the seventeen years from1881 to 1898, we have statistics only for the number ofJews admitted at the ports of New York, Philadelphia,and Baltimore. For the next eight years (1899-1907) wehave figures for the number of Jews admitted at all ports.It is only since 1908 that statistics of departures as well asof arrivals have been recorded.

Notwithstanding these deficiencies and gaps, we are ina position to arrive at an approximate figure for the totalJewish immigration since 1881. From 1908, when the num-ber of departures began to be recorded, up to 1914, afterwhich the World War and restrictive legislation interruptedthe free flow of immigration, the percentage of Jews depart-ing to those adm itted was 7.14%. We may assume thatthe same percentage held good during the period 1899-1907 for which we have complete figures for Jewish admis-sions. If th is assumption is correct, the number of Jewsadmitted during those years totalled 829,244. For the

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period from 1881-1898 we have figures only for Jews admit-ted at the ports of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.We may perhaps assume that the number of departures

during those years equalled the number of admissions atother ports; in other words, that the total number of Jewsadmitted at all ports equalled the number admitted at thethree ports mentioned, namely, 533,478. Adding the netincreases for these two periods, thus arrived at, to the net.increase from 1908 to 1940, for which official statistics areavailable, we find that the total net increase of the Jewishpopulation of the United States as a result of immigrationwas 2,460,495 for the sixty years from 1881 to 1940.

Table XX, which is a summary of the immigrationand emigration, to and from the United States, since 1881,shows the fluctuations in the annual averages of the num-ber of Jews who arrived, caused in turn by the World War,the post-war condition of European Jews, the operation ofthe several quota restriction laws and the executive orderof 1931 for the strict application of the "likely to becomea public charge" provision of the immigration law, and theexpulsive force of persecution in Germany.

TABLE XV

JEW ISH IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED, DEPA RTED , DEB ARRE D,AND DEPORTED, JULY 1, 1939JUNE 30, 1940, AND

JULYDECEMBER, 1940

July 1, 1939June 30, 1940

Total Jews P. C.

JulyDecember, 1940

Total Jews P. C.

Admission1Departure 3

IncreaseDebarredDeported

70,75621,46149,295

5,3006,954

36,945150s

36,795342

78

52.210.70

74.646.451.12

25,9438,682

17,2611,7402,468

10.54749

10,49811236

40.650.56

60.826.441.46

1 In add ition , 138,032 non-im mig rants, including 6,695 Jews (4.85% ) were a dmittedduring th e year ended Ju ne 30, 1940, and 60,467 non-im mig rants, including 3,806 Jewsduring July-Decem ber 1940.2 In add ition , 144,703 non-em igrant aliens dep arted during t he year ended June 30,1940, including 3,740 Jews (2.58%); and 35,88 5, including 1,091 Jews, during July-December 1940.

1 50 to Palestine, 22 to C anad a, 12 to M exico, 8 to England, 6 to Colombia, 5 toFrance, 4 to Pana ma, 4 to Poland, 3 to Argentine, 3 to Cuba, 3 to Roumania, 3 toChina," and 27 to other co un tries .

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TABLE XVI

JEWISH IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY SEX, AGE, CONJUGALCONDITION, FINANCIAL CONDITION, ETC., YEAR ENDED

JUNE 30, 1940

Immigrants Adm it ted

S E XMalesFemales

A G EUnder 1616-4445 and over

M A R I TA L C O N D I T I O NSingleMarriedWidowedDivorced

F I N A N C I A L C O N D I T I O NAmount of money shown. .No. showing $50 or ove r. . .No. showing less t h a n $ 5 O . .No. not st at in g financial

condition

P E R S O N S J O I N E DRelativesFriendsNone

N u m b e r

To t a l

70,756

33,46037,296

9,60245,02616.128

29,08237,608

3,27878 8

$13,304,05734,76417,137

18,855

56,5237,6586,575 .

Jews

36,945

18,4'8218,463

5,46120,45411,030

14,25220,381

1,841471

$7,069,70016,8408,809

11,296

31,3424,0591,544

Distr ibut ion

To ta l

47.2952.71

13.5763.6422.79

41.1053.15

4.631.12

49.1324.22

26.65

79.8810.839.29

Jews

50.0349.97

14.7855.3629.86

38.5855.17

4.981.27

45.5823.84

30.S8

84.8310.994.18

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TABLE XVII

DESTINATION OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS BY STATEYEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1940

U N I T E D S TAT E S

California / .Connect icu tDistr ic t of Columbia. . .Flor ida

Illinois

N ew JerseyNew YorkOhio

Texas

Other S ta tes

To t a l

70,756

5,7141,099

522657174

3,62938 658 5

2,7553,190

4433,001

36,4941,7732,641

1541,421

292842

4474,537

Jews

36,945

1,910381261147103

2,270162388773579335

1,46023,956

9461,374

107223157109

2341,070'

P . C .

52.21

33.9534.6750.0022.3759.2062.5541 9766.3228.0618.1575.6248.6565.6453.3652.0369.4815 6953 7712 95

52.3523.58

Dis t r ibu t ion

To t a l

100.00

8.081.550.740.930.245.130 550.833.894.510.634.24

51.582.503.730.222 010 411 19

0.636.41

Jews

100.00

5.171.030.710.400.286.140 441.052.091.570.913.95

64.842.563.720.290.600 420 30

0.632.90

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TABLE XVIII

PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES OF LAST RESIDENCE OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS,YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1940

ALL COUNTRIES

CENTRAL EUROPEANCOUNTRIES

Poland

Russia

GERMANY

OTHER COUNTRIES

Danzig

Italy

China

Cuba

Other Countries

Total

70,756

4,601

1,0741,902

288262702333

40

21,520

44,635

1,713136

2,5756,1585 302

1472,097

5181,211

6526438 50

10,8062,0622,3137,452"

Jews

36,945

3,388

7041,450

238211521247

17

19,880

13,677

1,382124

1,6074,099

733136

1 43211659813517975796 7516122774'

P. C.

52.21

6.50

65.5576.2482.6480.5374.2274.1742.50

92.38

30.64

80.6891.1862.4166.5613 8392.5268.2922.3949.3820.7127.8489.06

8.9525.02

5.2710.39

Distribution

Total

100.00

6.50

23.3441.34

6.265.69

1S.267.240.87

30.42

63.08

3.840.305.77

13.8011 88

0.334 701 162.711.461.441.90

24.214.625.18

16.70

Jews

100.00

9.17

20.7842.80

7.026.23

15.387.290.50

53.81

37.02

10.100.91

11.7529.97

5.360.99

10.470.854.370.991.315.547.073.770.895.66

1 Including 811 from Greece, 749 from Ireland, 488 from Norway, 448 from Por-tugal, 259 from Spain, 250 from Denmark, 233 from Finland, and 586 from otherEurope; 639 from Central America, 1,115 from South America, and 885 from otherAmerica; 420 from other Asia; 202 from Africa; 156 from Australia; and 211 fromother countries.

2 Including 42 from Denmark, 21 from Finland, 20 from Bulgaria, and 106 fromother Europe; 238 from South America, 117 from Central America, 42 from other

West Indies, and 1 from Newfoundland; 91 from other Asia; 62 from Africa; and 34from Australia and Australasia.

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TABLE XIX

PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES OF LAST RESIDENCE OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTSYEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1941

LAST RESIDENCE

ALL COUNTRIES

CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

Rumania

GERMANY (& AUSTRIA)

OTHER COUNTRIES

Great Britain

Ireland (Eire)Italy

PortugalSpain

Canada

Total

51,776

1,217

314330451122

4,028

46,531

1,8164,8017,714

268211450823369

1,101300518

1,375142

1,408

11,2802,824

11,1311

Jews

23,737

871

230237315

89

3,793

19,073

1,2732,7304,691

1617

224444

25599

5628 7828

72753

1,39436 3

5,301*

i Including 4,687 from West Indies; 3,654 from other America; 1,801 from Asia; and989 from other countries.

= Including 2,642 from West Indies; 1,488 from other America; 762 from Asia; and409 from other countries.

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TABLE XXIIJEWISH IMMIGRANTS REJECTED ON APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION AND

THOSE DEPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES AFTERADMISSION, 1899-1940

Year

1899 19101911191219131914191519161917191819191920192119221923 . . . .1924 . . .19251926192719281929193019311932

19331934193519361937193819391940

Total 1899-1940

Total 1911-1940

Debar red

N u m b e r

To ta l

116,25522,34916,05719,93833,04124,11118,86716,0287,2978,626

U,79S13,77913 73120 61930 28425,39020.55019.75518,83918,1278,2339,7447 0645 5275 3845,5583,0208,0768,0666,4985,300

547,908

Jews

10,7851.9991,0641,2242,5061.398

9496072221992681,195

1,2561,4551,7541.137

8711,090

898610275405314

276211208157368339422342

34,804

Per Cent toAdmission

To ta l

1.22.51.91.62.77.36.35.46.56.12.71.74 43 94 38.66.75.96.16.483-41

10.0319 86

23 9618 2715.90

8.3116.0711.88

7.837.49

2.75

Jews

1.02.11.31.21.95.26.23.56.06.51.81.02.32 93 5

11.18 .49.47.74.892.397.12

11.4011.645.104.302.513.241.720.970.93

1.70

Depor ted

N u m b e r

To t a l

12.1772,7882,4563,4614.1372,6702,9061,918

7963,102

2,7624,5174,3453 6614 2949.495

10,90411.66211,62512.90816.63118,14219,42619,865

8 8798,3199,1958,8299,2758,2026,954

246,301

234,124

Jews

1,303209191253317

687946271753134

21499

113250175184213153164150147

13811496

107109

84103

78

5,388

4,085

Per Cent toNet Increase

To ta l

.5

.4

.4

.42.11.8

.94.9

17.61.9.83 9

.8268

4.74.74 .45.16.138.71

51.46

.37.5621.7314.5614.11

3.48

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.2

.2

.2

.2

.2

.5

.3

.9

.7

.4.1

.4

.02

.22.51.71.61.91.251.462.796.386.942.997.131.800.980.430.190.21

0.44

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Fully three-fourths (75.23%) of the Jewish immigrantswere bound for the two provinces of Quebec (43.44%) and

Ontario (31.79%). Of the total number of immigrants,over one-half were bound for the same provinces, and ofthese, 34.24% went to Ontario, and 20.07% to Quebec.

During 1901 to 1940, a total of 131,448 Jews enteredCanada, constituting 2.21% of the total.

Cuba. During 1936, a total of 338 Jews entered Cuba.The number of Jewish immigrants during 1937 was esti-mated as about 200. A more accurate figure was not avail-able. Compared with preceding years, the figure is low.There has been a gradual decrease since 1934, when theJewish immigrants numbered 612. The total immigration,in 1937, also shows a decrease, but to a lesser extent. From1929 to 1937, a total of 3,973 Jews entered the country.The number of Jewish immigrants that entered Cubaduring 1929-1937 constituted 7.94% of the total.

Brazil. During 1938, a total of 530 Jewish immigrantswere admitted to Brazil, and during 1939, 4,600. From1925 to 1939, a total of 48,579 Jews entered the country,5.62% of the total number of persons admitted duringthese years.

Uruguay During 1938, 3,115 Jews entered Uruguay,and during 1939, 2,200. From 1927 to 1939, a total of17,828 Jews entered the country. The number of Jewishimmigrants admitted during 1927-1938 constituted 0.74%of the total number of persons admitted.

Argentina During 1938, a total of 1,050 Jews enteredArgentine, constituting 2.78% of the total number ofimmigrants admitted to the country during that year.In 1939, the Jewish immigration totalled 4,300, 73.62% ofthe total. During the period of 27 years of 1913-1939, a

total of 118,979 Jews entered the country, 5.12% of thetotal admitted.

Union of South Africa We have data on Jewish immi-gration to the Union of South Africa from 1930 to 1938.This is for European immigration only. According to thisinformation, Jewish immigrants constituted 24.06% of the

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total number of immigrants during the nine years (11,238Jews out of a total of 46,708). The percentage of Jewishimmigration varies from 31.86% in 1930 to 7.61% in 1938.The year 1934 showed a rise in immigration to that country,both Jewish and total (1,123 Jews in 1934, compared with745 in the preceding year), but the ratio of Jewish immi-gration to the total was about the same; 1935 showedpractically no change. But, in 1936, the immigration of Jewsincreased three times. This increase was caused entirelyby the rise in the immigration from Germany, from whichthere arrived as many as 2,577 during the year (77.06%

of the total Jewish immigration to the country). In 1937,however, Jewish immigration dropped again to 954, andin 1938, to 566, the lowest number since 1930, while thetotal remained about the same as in the preceding year.The number of Jewish immigrants admitted during 1930-1938 constituted 24.06% of the total.

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TABLE XXIIIJEWISH IMMIGRANTS TO CANADA, BY SEX, AGE,

OCCUPATION AND DESTINATION, 1940

Total

Via Ocean PortsFrom United States

SEXMalesFemales

A G E

18 years and over

OCCUPATION

Trading and Clerical ClassesFemale Domestic Servants. .Other Classes

COUNTRY OF BIRTH

Germany (incl. Austria). . .

Poland .

United StatesOther Countries

DESTINATIONQuebec . . . .Ontario . .

Alberta

Prince Edward IslandNorthwest Territories

Number

Total

16,205

10,4575,748

7,4028,803

4,91011,295

4,806

4751,0951,349

7687,712

1,6402,299

779384

962,381

15196

4,2714,108

3,2535,5491,2352,120

8361,2141,567

350

6894

Jews

1,623

1,321302

797826

4241,199

542 88

33039

591

25969

4475944

3406647

19399

705516205

65564821

7

Distribution

Total

100.00

64.5335.47

45.6854.32

30.3069.70

29.66

2 96.768.324.74

47.59

10.1214.19

4.812.370.59

14.690.930.59

26.3625.35

20.0734.24

7.6213.08

5.167.499.672.16

0.420.060.03

Jews

100.00

81.3918.61

49.1150.89

26.1273.88

33.40

2 035.4220.33

2.4036.42

15.964.25

27.543.632.71

20.954.072.90

11.896.10

43.4431.7912.63

4.013.452.961.290.43

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TABLE XXVI

SUMMARY OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO BRAZIL, 1925-1939

Year

19251926192719281929..193019311932

1933193419351936193719381939

Total 19251939

Total'

84,883121,569101,568

82,061100,424

67,06631,41034,683

48,81250,37135,91312 77334.67719,38838,339 s

863,937

Jews

2,624*3,9065,167'4,055'5,610'3,5581,940'2,049'

3,317'4.01C1 759*3 450*2,004'

530'4,600

48,579

P. C.

3.093.215.094.945.595.316.185.91

6.807.964.90

27.015.782.73

12.00

5.62

1 Communicated by the Consul General of Brazil in New York City.1 Communicated by Hicem.1 Communicated by lea.* Communicated by Hias.6 Including 15,780 temporary immigrants.

TABLE XXVII

SUMMARY OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO URUGUAY, 1927-1938

Year

1927192819291930193119321933193419351936193719381939

Total 19271938

Total

183,386180 654184 514230 464*160 000 s

120,670'105 985B158,954 s

176,264196,205203,542221,969

2,122,607

Jews'

771=l,500>2,0001,600"1,250'

765500'

1,205'560

1,2621,100'3,115"2,200'

15,628

P. C.

0.420.831.080.690.780.630.470.760.320.640.541.40

0.74

Ica.2 Number assisted by local Jewish Committee.* Number assisted in 1928, 1,270; in 1929, 1,449.* Anuario Estadiatico.B Estimate of Consul General. Hiaa.1 Estimate as given by Hias.

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TABLE XXVIII

SUMMARY OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO ARGENTINA, 1913-1939

Year

19131914-1918 . . . .1919.1920.19211922192319241925. . . .19261927.

19281929193019311932..19332-1934"1935193619371938 . . .1939

Total 1913 1939

Total'

285,215225,365

41,29987,03298,086

129,263195,063159,939125.366135,011161,548

129,047100 424'133 183*

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