(By our Washington correspondent)
–In explanation of the figures concerning the number of the Jewish population in the United States, fixed as 4,087,357, the Department of Commerce made public the following table shiowing the “Statistics for Jewish Congregations, by States, 1926.” This table is one of 191 which are to be issued on the basis of the 1926 census of religious bodies in the United States.
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