Jews Have Largest Percentage of Literacy in Ukraine Figures Show

(Jewish Telegraphich Agency)

There are 1,750,332 Jews in the Ukraine. which is about 5.8 per cent of the totall popuiation according to the final results of the cansus of 1926. which have just been published. There are 23,850,552 Ukrainians, ssughly 80 per cent of the total population. Russians come secomd with 1688.588. or 0.2 per cent of the populatior and the Jews come third. Next in order come the Poies with 460.412, or 1.6 per cent of the total population; the fromans with 685,500 or 1.5 per cent and the Moldavans with 364.425, or 9 per cent.

The Jews in the Ukraine are princtpally an unban elementt 74 per cent of the Jews of the Ukraine live in the towns and 25.6 per cent live in the villages The whcle of the Jewish village population is not engaged in agriculture. The Jewish village population numbers altogether about 455.000. of whom only 157.500 are engaged in agricultural work, 155.200 on their own farms and 4,100 working for others.

About 246 per cent of enfranchised Jews in the villages are artisans. while in the case of the Ukrainian population here are only 4 per cent artisans; of the Russian 9 per cent. and of the Poles 1.1 per cent.

In the trade mions the Jews constitute 73.5 per cent, of the total membership in the tailoring industry, 48.6 per cent in the lather-workers’ industry, and 38.4 per cent in the printing trades. 47.8 per cent of the Jewish workers are members of the unions organizing intellectual workers. teachers.

The Jewish population has the largest proportion of literates. in the country. For every thousand population the Jews have 61 literates. the Germans 623, the Poles 601. the Russians 454 and the Ukrainians 283. The Moldavians, White Russians and other nationalities in the Ukraine stand much lower in the cultural scale.