Today’s Jewish children in Germany wish to be factory workers, mechanics and dressmakers. The tendency toward business and the professions has waned.
This the statistical department of the Reichs Representation of Jews in Germany learned by polling Jewish schoolchildren who graduated this Passover. About 1,400 boys and 1,250 girls –almost half of the Jewish graduates–replied.
Of the boys, 51.47 percent expressed a desire to become factory workers, chiefly in the metallurgical industry. Mechanics was also a popular field. Only 9.35 percent chose business and 8.22 percent favored liberal professions.
Of the professions named, teaching and rabbinical work ranked high. Only 1.07 percent of the boys named engineering as their chosen profession and law, economics and philology attracted but three persons. Ten percent of the boys were uncertain about their future.
Most of the girls expressed a desire to become dressmakers. Nearly 13 percent chose domestic work and 8.35 percent wished jobs as shop assistants.
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