History of the Jews in America: From the Period of the Discovery of the New World to the Present TimeWiernik, Peter
History
History of the Jews in America: From the Period of the Discovery of the New World to the Present Time
Wiernik, Peter
Jews -- America -- History; Jews -- United States -- History
Coming to the nearer Western States and toward the border States, we
find four communities in Nebraska, eight in Kansas, twelve in Missouri,
thirteen in Iowa, eight in Kentucky and five in West Virginia. North
Dakota has five, Minnesota eight, while Wisconsin, with nineteen, and
Michigan, with twenty-four, show the result of proximity to the great
Central States where Jews have been settled in considerable numbers for
the last two generations. Among those States Illinois has the largest
number of Jews, owing to the great community of Chicago, while the
number of cities containing Jewish communities――twenty-three――is
somewhat smaller than that of Indiana, which has twenty-six, and of
Ohio, with its twenty-seven. We notice the same in the two greatest
States in the East, where, if we consider Greater New York City as
one community, the number of places containing Jewish organizations
is slightly less than in Pennsylvania, which has sixty-two such
places. New Jersey has more than forty, and of the New England States
Massachusetts leads with thirty-five, and Connecticut is second, having
twenty. Rhode Island has seven; Vermont and New Hampshire four each.
The list is completed with one community in the District of Columbia,
five in Maryland and one in Delaware.[64]
Philadelphia and Chicago are, besides New York, the only two cities
which contain about 100,000 or more Jews each. Boston has about
three-fourths of that number, Baltimore, Cleveland and St. Louis
about 50,000 each, and after them come in the order named: Newark, San
Francisco, Pittsburg and Cincinnati (with about 30,000 each); Detroit,
Buffalo, Providence and Jersey City, each having about half of that
number, while Rochester, Syracuse, New Haven, Milwaukee, Louisville,
New Orleans and Kansas City belong to the class which have 10,000 or
more. The twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul would belong to that
class if they were considered as one, which they really are. Washington,
the national capital, belong to the class of cities having between
5 and 10,000 Jews, which includes Albany, N. Y.; Columbus, Ohio;
Dallas, Tex.; Denver, Colo.; Pall River, Mass.; Hartford, Conn.;
Indianapolis, Ind.; Los Angeles, Cal.; Memphis, Tenn.; Omaha, Neb.;
Paterson, N. J; Portland, Ore.; Scranton, Pa.; Seattle, Wash., and
Trenton, N. J. There are some old and important settlements containing
less than 5,000, but the number which would have to be included in a
class of communities of that size is too large to be mentioned.
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