Out of a total of 403,969 Jews who were living in Prussia in 1925, only 76,387, or 18.9%, were foreigners, according to statistics just published in the “Zeitschrift fur Demographie und Statistik der Juden”.
Of this total of foreign Jews in Prussia, 35,385 came from Poland, 9498 from Austria, 6986 from Russia, 3574 from Czecho-Slovakia, 2480 from Hungary, 2156 from Roumania, 1791 from Holland, 1350 from Lithuania and 1037 from Latvia. Thus East-European Jews constituted the vast majority of the foreign Jewish population of Prussia.
Berlin alone contained 43,838 foreign Jews, or 57,4% of the total throughout Prussia. Out of a total Jewish population of 172,672 in Berlin, more than one-quarter were foreigners in 1925.
Other centers of large foreign Jewish populations in Prussia in 1925 were Frankfurt-am-Main, Cologne, Breslau, Dortmund, Altona, Hanover and Essen.
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