(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
Data on the economic life of the Jews in Russia is now being compiled by a committee consisting of forty economists and statisticians formed at the end of 1926 for this purpose.
J. Zegelnitsky, representative of the Ort Central Board in Moscow, issued a statement on the progress of the work.
The Committee is dealing with the dynamics of the Jewish population in Soviet Russia, the social and professional distribution of the population, agriculture and the new Jewish settlements, trades and small industries and credit cooperation financing it, Jews in commerce, vocational training among the Jews, and the economic position of the Jews in the townships.
The Committee has collected material from various organizations and State Departments. By January data on the Jewish demography and the distribution of occupations among the Jews had been studied. The data on the movements of the Jewish population in Russia for 26 years. 1897 to 1923, are ready to go to press and it is expected that in the coming three months data of the general Russian census carried out in 1926 will be placed at the disposal of the Committee. Statistics on the occupations of the Jews in the Ukraine and White Russia will also be published shortly.
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