Jeish World Population Depleted to About Twelve Million Say Gottschalk and Duker

Pointing out that “almost two thirds of the entire Jewish population of the world are in the lowest depths of the direst catastrophe that has befallen them in history,” Dr. Max Gottschalk and Abraham G. Duker estimate in “Jews in the Post – War World,” being published tomorrow, that “some 4,000,000 Jews have been exterminated in the course of the present war.”

Dr. Gottschalk, director of the Research Institute on Peace and Post – War Problems of the American Jewish Committee, and Sgt. Duker, formerly a member of the Instituto, state that the Jewish population of the world “has been reduced by nearly onequarter, from 16,717,000 in 1938 to a little more than 12,000,000 today. This constitutes a far greater percentage of loss than has been sustained by any other people in modern times.”

“The largest proportion of Jews, more than 6,000,000” the authors point out, “will reside in countries where English is either widoly or universally spoken: 4,700,000 in the United States; 535,000 in Palestine; 370,000 in Great Britain; 175,000 in Canada; 100,000 in South Africa and about 30,000 in Australia and New Zealand. The second largest group of Jews will be living in regions where Russian is the dominant language, German, until 1933 the second cultural language of the Jews of Central Europe and of the westernized Jews in the East, will lose in importance.”

Declaring that “without the elimination of anti-Semitism, there can be no enduring demceracy, no durable international peace, ” the authors point out that the status of Jews within any given country has “come to be recognized as an infallible criterion of that country’s democratic structure and its genuine striving for a democratic peace.”