The Minneapolis journal., 1905-07-15
NEW YORK FAST CHANGING
INTO Il JEWISH CITY
No Other City TN the World Counts So Many Hebreavs
Anuomg Its Inhabitants EOery Line Of Ac.
. tigity the Jev Is Prominent Great In.
y fae From Europe Eyery Year.
Copyright, 1905, by J. L. Bahret,

+ New York, July l5-New YORK
Jewish city! That at present appears
the metropolis cannot realize the great
Jewish in ntasion and peaceable conquest
Of the city now taking place. New
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-
ber of Jews in different communities
has to be estimated. In 1925, accord
ing to the Jewish Encyclopedia, there
in lS4l, 10000; in $780,, $4,000: Ac,
cording to the figures Of the United
Hebrew Charities, of the Jewish immi-
grants arriving at the port Of New
York between 1884 and 1904, $4,000
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
over 100000. Compare these figures
with the number in Chicago, $4,000,
and in Philadelphia, $4,000. More than
is a 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
arrived, of whom $4,000 remained in
the city. The number of such immi-
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-
cutions 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
ing the same period increased 600 per
cent. The increase of the population of
Greater New York between 1880 and
1905 has been l26 per cent. The in
crease of the Jewish population during
this period has been 100 per cent.
Last year the general population in
creased 81 per cent, while the j Jewish
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. 1t contains
far more Jews than all Germany, two,
and-a- half times as many as the whole
British empire, four times as many as
the United Kingdom, seven times as
many. as London, eight times the mum
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 5,000,0O0. half the Jews in the
world. According to. the Jewish Year
l0,932,OOO. Formerly the Jews, in leav:
ing Europe. felt that they had left
Jewry behind. But now New York is
the recognized center of Jewry for the
world,
The number of Jews in the whole
United States. in 1904 was 1858 900
The remarkable increase is shown by
the following figures, taken from the
Year Book: 1918, 5000; 1910, $4,000
1880, 100000; 1883, O,0OO; 1897, 937,
600. Between 1881 and 1904, acccrdint
to the figures of the Jewish Immi
grants Protective association, S27 ,OO(
foreign Jews were admitted to tn
United States thru the three ports O.
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimor
alone.
London grew apprehensive at tn
threatened hegi ira of poor and ignoran
Jews from eastern Europe, and sough
to have parliament exclude them. Bu
New York had thought itself able t
digest $4,000 year. In each two year
Jewish population more than the Who'll
Jewish population of London.
The Jew has always been noted fo
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 Journey thou
sands of miles long if he can better hi
New York, now in South Africa, nov
in Australia, wherever there is promis
OF openings for business.
Where the Jews Come From. y
Where do the New York Jews com
froma Chiefly from Russia, POLAND
Galicia, Rumania, Hungary and Gel
many. Some also from Asia. AS Nigh
be expected from their widely scattere
nationality, they are not homogeneou
people. Each nationality has it's ow
ea4ynagogues, its own societies and ofte
its own newspapers, printed in Hebre,
characters: The non-Americanize
jews publish six dailies, besides se7
eral weeklies. Each nationality speak
a jargon made up Of mixture of HI
brew terms with the language of. tn
country from which they have EN-
grated. The foreign-bo Jews al
into many different religious sect
Jewry has it's sects as bitter as eve
were those of Christianity. The native
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 ha
known those Of the lower class to sid
with gentiles in a controversy with th
best class Of Jews. But the wealth
American Jew is to be commended fc
his manifold charities toward his r,
Gently immigrated co-religionist. Th
hospitals, orphan asylums, sanatorium
for consumptives, homes for the age,
etc, erected by wealthy New Yor
Jews for the poor of their own rae
surpass anything in the history {
charity. :
Jewish Quarters of New York.
A few years ago there was only or
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 settlemel
in the world, containing 100000 inha
itants-over three times the numb
in London g ghetto and 10000 mo
than the whole number of Jews in tt
British empire. This square mile
also the most congested in the worl
A large part of it contains 1859 i
habitants to the acre. In this imitt
area there are 306 synagogues and on
twenty-five churches.
The Jewish settlement, second in il