The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-24
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 The total number of Jews in the world is estimated by the American Jewish Year book at about ten millions of whom more than one-half are in Russia. Of the re- mainder, about two-thirds are in the Uni- ted States and Austria Hungary. Tn all Germany, in spite of it's anti-Semitic agi- tation, there are not so many Jews as there are in the city of New York alone. In the whole British empire there are not one-half as many.
 In the period since 1882 the Jewish popu- latlon of the United States and of New York more particularly. has been more than doubled by immigration, chiefly from Russia, because of the policy of pro- scription against the Jews then intro duced in that country. Another very great source of this immigration has been Au- stria- Hungary, and from both it is now coming in larger volume than ever. Un- doubtedly, too, the Kishineff outrages will tend to increase this flood both from Russia and from eastern Europe general ly, so that the United States. already sec ond only to that empire in the number i of its Jewish population. promises rapid ly to attain to the first place. Already the greatest Jewish community in the world the greatest ever gathered to- gether since the dispersion, is now in New York-more than 6OOOoO.
 Dr. Parl5hurst said on Sunday that he looked forward after some generations, v to the complete mixing of Jews with Gentiles" in this country, so that in the ages to come they will all form one | undivided tyne v MT Ed- ward Lauterbach, however declared be- fore the Young Mems Hebrew associa- tion, on the same day that because of discrimination against Jews here, by clubs for example, they must stand to- gether. 1t does not seem to have been necessary for him to give that counsel, for never in the history of this country have the Jews shown more determination to keep together than they are exhibiting now. As their numbers increase actual ly and relatively they are the prouder in their self-sufficiency as race. The mix ture of Jews and gentiles to which pr. Parkhurst looks forward so hopefully has been retarded rather than accelerated, even in his own opinion, by this great and rapid increase, for however strong may be the prejudice against the race mixture on the Gentle side, it is for the present, at least, even stronger on the Slde or IL Jews, ana more espe- 1 cially the strictly orthodox Jews, of whom the great immigration of the race is now made up almost exclusively
 The lesson of the massacres at Kishi- neff which have mortified the civilized l world is, therefore in the opinion of MT. Israel Zangwill, that the only hope of the Jews is in the Zionite movement. Ac- cordingly a London meeting at which he l spoke on Saturday adopted a resolution l declaring that the only practical solu- | ton of the Jewish question would be i found in a legally assured home in Pales- l tine. Prof. Gottheil of Columbia univer- 1 sity the president of the Federation of 1 American zionists. has published let ter in which he expresses the same opinion:
 "A free people in secure home!-for that we Zionists have been worxing for that we hope to work successfully under Divine guidance in the future. The blood of these innocent Kishineff martyrs will not have been shed in vain if it incite us to such i noble effort.
 Practically, however, the land of prom se for the persecuted Russian Jews is America. in the opinion of many of our most intelligent and influential Jews.
 "The only thing left for the Jews in Russia is to emigrate," said MT. Jacob H. SchiI., on Sunday, and inferentially he meant to fly to our shores. MT. Zang- will had said in London, the day be- fore, that such emigration is really the end for which Russia is working. Rus