The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-15
NEW YORK FAST CHANGING
INTO Il JEWISH CITY
No Other City in the World Counts So Many Hebyeays
Aanomg Its Inhabitants ln Euery Line Of Ac-
tiyity the Jew Is Prominent Great In
\ fuT From Europe Every Year.
Copyright, 1905, by J. L. Bahret.

I New York, July l5.-New York a
to be its destiny. Those living outside
the metropolis cannot realize the great
Jewish invasion and peaceable conquest
Of the city. now taking place. New s
York contains much more than half
the Jews in the whole country. The
census takes no notice of the religious
faith of citizens. and therefore the num-
Der of Jews in different communities
has to be estimated. In 1926, accord
ing to the Jewish Encyclopedia, there
were only $50 Jews in New York city;
in 1S41, 10000; in 1880, 10000: Ac,
cording to the figures OF the United
Hebrew Charities, of the Jewish, immi-
York between 1884 and 1904, so. 1000
settled permanently in the city. In adj
dition, many thousands arrived from
Europe by way of Canada. Taking into
account the increase by birth, the race
being very prolific, statisticians place
the number of Jewish inhabitants of
the metropolis in the present year at
with the number in Chicago, $4,000,
and in Philadelphia, $4,000. More than
one in six of New York's inhabitants
is Jew. If the old and most impor-
tant part of the city is taken into con-
sideration, Manhattan island, the pro-
portion is still greater, one in four.
Last year $4,000 Jewish immigrants
the city. The number Of such imnli-
grants has been steadily increasing of
late as result of the unrest caused
among the Jews of eastern Europe by
the Kishinef massacre and the perse-
BUTTONS in Rumania, and it is likely to
continue to increase. Even a hegira of
Russian, Galician and Rumanian Jews
to New, York is to be looked for.
The increase of New York s popula-
tion between 1910 and 1880 was 400
per cent. The Jewish population dur
ing the same period increased 600 per
cent. The increase of the population of
Greater New York between 1880 and
1905 has been 1876 per cent. The in
crease of the Jewish population during
this period has been HOO per cent
Last year the general population in
population increased per cent. At this
rate, it will not be many decades before
the Jewish inhabitants are in the ma.
jority.
New York today is the greatest Jew
ish settlement in the world. It contains
far more Jews than all Germany, two
and-a-half times as many as the whole
the United Kingdom. seven times as
many as London, eight times the mum
Der in all France, and twenty light
times the number in Canada. The only
countries in the world that contain
more Jews than New York city are
Galicia, with 100000, and Russia, with
over 100000, half the Jews in the
Book, the number in the world is
1882 900. Formerly the Jews, in leav
ing Europe, felt that they had left
Jewry behind. But now New York il
the recognized center of Jewry for the
world.
The number of Jews in the whole
United States in 1904 was, 1858 900
the following figures, taken from the
Year Book: 1918, 5000; 1910, $4,000
1880, 100000; 1883, 100000; 1897, 937.
600. Between 1881 and 1904, ACCORDING
to the figures of the Jewish lmmi
grants Protective association, 1927, OO(
foreign Jews were admitted to tn
United States thru the three ports O.
alone.
j., London grew apprenticeship at tn
threatened hegira of poor and ignoran
Jews from eastern Europe, and sough
to have parliament exclude them. Blu
New York had thought itself able t,
digest $4,000 a year. In each two year
there are now added to New York
~" ulOIt Uudu Inc WQOl
Jewish population Of London.
The Jew has always been noted TO
his migratory habit. The "Wande1
ing jew is name that Of right be
longs to him. His home is the world
He thinks nothing Of a journey thou
sands Of miles long if he can better hi
condition. Individual Jews are now il
New York, now in South Africa, nov
in Australia, wherever there is promis
of openings for business.
Where the Jews Come From.
Where DO the New York Jews com
Galicia, Rumania, Hungary and Gel
many. Some also from Asia. AS NIGH
be expected from their widely scattere
people. Each nationality has its ow
eynagogues, its own societies and ofte
its own newspapers, printed in Hebre1
characters: The non-Americanize
Jews publish six dailies, besides se1
eral weeklies: Each nationality speak
jargon ma de up of mixture Of HI
brew terms with the language Of tn
country from which they have EN-
grated. The foreign-born Jews al
very, narrow-minded and divided u
into many different religious sect
Jewry has its sects as bitter as eve
"tIS -luOSS VI CuI1SGldu1Gy. Line ndC1V(
born American Jew does not ming
in any way with these un-Americanize
Jews and this lower class Of Jews ofte
show no love for the educated and Gu
tured American Jew. The writer hs
known those of the lower class to sic
with gentiles in controversy with tt
best class of Jews. But the wealth
American Jew is to be commended fl
his manifold charities toward his r
Gently immigrated co-religionist. TT
hospitals, orphan asylums, sanatoriun
for consumptives, homes for the age
etc, erected by wealthy New Yo1
Jews for the poor of their own rat
surpass anything in the history +,
charity.
Jewish Quarters of New York.
A few years ago there was only o,
Jewish quarter in New York. No
there are several. The original ghett
bounded by the East river, Catheri1
street, the Bowery and Houston stree
and embracing less than one squa
mile. is the largest Jewish settleme
in the world, containing 100000 inha
itants-over three times the numb
in London's ghetto and 10000 mo
than the whole number of Jews in t.
British empire. This square mile
also the most congested in the wor]
A large part of it contains 1859 j
habitants to the acre. In this limit
area there are 3O6 synagogues and on
2 twenty-five churches.
The Jewish settlement, second in i
portance, is in Harlem, extending fire.
One Hundred to One Hundred a.