More than 114,000 Jews have emigrated from Europe to overseas countries during the first two years of the present war as compared with 42,000 in the first two years of the last war, it is revealed in an analysis of Jewish war-time emigration prepared by Mr. Ilja Dijour, executive secretary of the Hias-Ica Emigration Association and published in the current issue of the official organ of the Yiddish Scientific Institute.
Mr. Dijour emphasizes that whereas during the first World War nearly 99 per cent of the Jewish emigrants left Europe for the United States, only 60,000 – or somewhat more than fifty per cent – came to the United States during the present war. The remainder emigrated to Palestine and Latin-American countries, as well as to other countries. The majority of these emigrants did not come from Eastern European countries as was the case in the first World War, but from Central and Western Europe-Jews constituted from 62 to 92 per cent of the emigrants from France, Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg. Mr. Dijour’s review also analyzes in detail the Jewish war-time emigration to Palestine and other countries.
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