A biographical sketch of the late Louis Marshall, written by Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Theological Seminary and Dropsie College, who was Mr. Marshall’s intimate co-worker for many years in Jewish affairs, is the feature of the American Jewish Year Book for 5691 which has just been issued by the Jewish Publication Society of America.
The Year Book also contains a review of Jewish happenings during the past year, 5690, written by Harry Schneider-man, who has edited the Year Book for the American Jewish Committee. This review deals at length with the Palestine disorders of a year ago and with the political developments in Zionism which followed. Jewish life in many other countries during the past year is recorded fully in Mr. Schneidermann’s review.
New statistics of Jewish population in the United States and in other countries appear in the latest issue of the American Jewish Year Book. Among American cities for which new figures of Jewish population are given are: Atlanta, 12,000; Birmingham, 4,500; Dallas, 8,000; Des Moines, 4,500; Duluth, 4,000; Elizabeth, N. J., 7,500; Houston, 12,000; Miami, 2,400; Mount Vernon, N. Y., 10,000; Nashville, 2,800; New Brunswick, N. J., 6,500; New Rochelle, 5,500; Norfolk, 6,500; Oakland, Cal., 5,000; Omaha, 10,000; Portland, Ore., 11,000; Richmond, 6,500; Rochester, 33,000; San Antonio, 6,000; Scranton, Pennsylvania, 8,000; Seattle, 12,000; Toledo, 12,000; Trenton, 10,000. Woodbine, N. J., which has a general population of 2,164 and a Jewish population of 1,100, shows the largest percentage of Jews of any American town enumerated. Chelsea, Mass., has 20,000 Jews out of a general population of 44,827. Fallsburg town, N. Y., located in the midst of the Jewish farming section of the Catskill Mountains, has 1,060 Jews out of a general population of 3,825.
A list of important centers of Jewish population in Europe, Palestine and other parts of the world is also given in the latest issue of the American Jewish Year Book. The Jewish population of various Palestinian cities in 1928 is given as follows: Jerusalem, 53,500; Tel Aviv, 38,500; Haifa, 17,500; Jaffa, 7,000. In all of these cities except Jaffa the Jews constitute a majority of the population.
Of Jewish immigration into Palestine, the Year Book says:
“From the date of the British occupation of Palestine, December 9, 1917, to the end of 1929, a total of 104,000 entered the country; and the yearly number varied between 33,801 in 1925 and 2,178 in 1928. But during the period of 1922 to 1929, a total of 25,500 Jews emigrated, or 29.96% of the total number of Jews admitted.”
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