Number of Jewish Officials in Poland

The complaints made constantly by the Jewish Parliamentary representatives that Jews are discriminated against in the Polish State service are borne out by the figures published in the forthcoming issue of the Vilna Yiddish Scientific Institute monthly, collected by Dr. J. Gliksman. The figures, which are all taken from official sources, show that among the 3,682 officials employed in the Central Government offices there are only 40 Jews, or 1.1 per cent. Among the 115,288 officials in local and special institutions there are 3,072 Jews – 2.7 per cent., and among the 1,735 officials in temporary service there are 30 Jews – 1.7 per cent. Altogether there are 3,142 Jewish officials in Poland, or about 2.6 per cent. of the total number of State officials in the country.

The largest number of Jewish officials are teachers, who number 2,108, or about 3.1 per cent. of the total. any of the Central Government offices have not a single Jew employed there. There are practically no Jews at all among the officials and workers in Government works. The State Forests and Lands Department, for example, has only one Jew among 3,442 officials. Among the 53,208 officials and workers employed in Government works there are 738 Jews – about 1.39 per cent.

The territorial distribution of the Jewish officials shows also that most of them are concentrated in the Southern provinces, which account for 709 Jewish officials out of the total number of 808 Jewish officials in the entire country, which means that in the majority of cases the Jewish officials all held their posts at the time that these parts of the country were under Austrian rule, and have been retained by the Polish State. There have been practically no accessions to the number of Jewish officials, however, since the establishment of the Polish State. In the other parts of Poland, the doors to State service are practically closed against Jews.