The Denver Jewish news., 1924-10-02
JeWish Year Book

has just been published This issue
runs into over 500 pages
The recurrcnt features OF the Ycnr
Book. the calendars, the various dircc.
tories aud lists have been carefully
brought up-to-date
The important section on Statistics
has also been revised and In IL Is In.
.cluded on abstract of the interesting
results of the recent government census
IN Palestine. Many tables have been
eliminated. fourteen tables have been
added aud the remaining material has
been thoroughly revised and some of II
entirely recast. The Jewish population
of the world Is over fifteen and n half
million. More than two-thirds Of the
Jews live In Europe, and nearly $50
live In North and South America
Asia, Africa, and Australasia together
bavc less than SO of the total Jewish
population. OF the Jews who live on
the American continent 3,7l1 .9SS dwell
In North America and the East Indies,
where they constitute 2.7So of the total
population; 1OS,204 in Central and
South America. The bulk of the Jews
Of Europe live in Central Europe
where they form about SO of the total
population. There are approximately
3,JOO.ooO Jews in Poland In Asia the
Jews live in concentrated numbers on
ly in Palestine and in Arabic-speak-
Ing countries. They form 2.1G9o of
the population. The great majority of
the Jews in Africa, namely 451,5S1 out
of n total population of twenty-eight
million, live in Arabic-spcaking coun-
tries along the Mediterranean Sea.
There are said to be 10000 Falnshas in
East Africa (Abyssinia). There are
21, ,G15 Jews in Australia. There are
79S,G12 Jews in the countries comprised
In the British Commonwealth of Ma
tions. 295,0OO live In Great Britain
and Northern Ireland In France and
her possessions there are sol 600 Jews
In the Union of Socialist Soviet Re
publics there are $3.50. .429 Jews. There
are about 100000 Jews in Siberia.
1t is estimated that New York City
has about n million and II half Jews
Baltimore GO,0OO; Boston 1850; Chi
.cago 225,OOO; Cleveland 100000; De
troit 10000; Newark 5000; Phila
delphia 100000: st. Louis GO,OOO; San
Francisco 10000; Pittsburgh G0,oO0 !;
Milwaukee 10000 and Rochester 90
900. All the other cities in the United
States have each less than 10000 Jews.
Palestine has S3,707 Jews. constitut-
ing n little over 119e of the population.
Jerusalem is reported as having 49,
071 Jews cut of total population of
G2,57S. The 1922 census reports that
forty languages We're habitually spoken
by the inhabitants of Palestine: eight
habitants, and thirty-two by less than
1000 people each. The three Ian
Suages ranking highest were Arabic,
Hebrew and English.
During the past eighteen months,
the Jewish community of the United
States had lost by death an unusually
large number of its most active lead
ers and public workers. Six of these
men were of such outstanding i'm
,,,,r rtn tl,nt q hnI haan lnapn.I EttinO
to present in the Year Book brief bio
graphical notices in memory of them.
These six men, in the order of the
dates of their death, were: Emil G.
HirSch. Rabbi, orator. and educator,
who died on January Z. 1928; Mayor
Sulzberger, jurist, publicist, scholar
and communal leader, who died on
April 20, 1928; Simon Wolf, lawyer,
communal leader, former United States
Consul, who died on June 4, 1923; :;
Joseph Krauskopf. rabbi and communal
leader, founder of the National Farm
School who died on June Il. 1928; !;
Henry Berkowitz rabbi, authur, and
initiator of the Jewish Chautauqua
movement, who died on February T.
1921; and Bcnzion Halper. scholar,
teacher, and editor for the Jewish Pub
lication Society, who died on March
21, 1924. Biographical sketches of all
but one of these men are given in this
volume. The biography of Emil G..
Hirsch was not prepared in time for in
sertiGn in this volume.
DIR. Harry Linfield gives in his Sur
vey the most significant tendencies and
noteworthy events of the past year.
! The report Of the American Jewish
committee contains statements on sub
jccts of vital importance to the Jews
of America, such as the ku KluX Klan,
the so-called Jewish Vote" immigra-
tion and anti.JewiSh propaganda. The
interesting address of Mr., Simon Miller,
the President Of the Jewish Publication
Society Of America. delivered at the
] last animal meeting Is also given.