IT is impossible to give
the exact number of Jews
living in the world, for the
simple reason that no
census can be
taken of them. In
fulfillment of Prophecy
they are now
scattered into the
comers of the earth and
the inlands of the
sea Perhaps there is no
country, no nation, no
territory
in which the Jew is
missing. But recently
remnants of the
Hebrew race were
discovered in Africa,
and there are Jews
in the interior of China
and elsewhere.
Everywhere the
Jew witnesses by his
presence in the great
dispersion to the
truth of the Bible.
Gentile hatred and
superstition, especially
m the middle ages, often
attempted to make an end
of the Jews. These
attempts were the
manifestation of the
same power which
prompted Haman of old to
have all the Hebrews
slain. Satan hates the
Jews, because they are
God's earthly people
with a wonderful
destiny. And he hates
them because He who has
defeated him and who
will make an end of his
power shortly, came
according to the flesh
from that nation. Often
the poor blinded
Gentiles, instruments of
Satan, triumphed because
they thought the Jews
were getting less and
less and would soon be
gone from the face of
the earth. But like the
bush Moses saw in the
desert, the fire burned,
but the bush was not
consumed, so the Jews
were persecuted and not
consumed. The
preservation of the Jew
is a miracle. Indeed,
the greater the
persecution, like in
Egypt of old, the
greater the increase.
And what happens to the
nations which touch the
burning bush? Think of
Spain, unhappy Spain.
Over four hundred years
ago they drove out the
Jews from their country
under the most cruel
circumstances. To-day
the sin of the fathers
is visited upon the
children. It is also
said that Jewish
financiers control every
railroad in Spain; the
whole country is unhappy
and under a curse. God
is faithful to His Word,
"I will curse them that
curse thee." Russia is
an illustration of this
word in our days. She is
getting a part payment
for her cruelty to the
Jew, the balance will be
paid on the day of the
Lord.
That the Jewish people
have wonderfully
increased during the
last fifty years is a
startling fact. The
natural increase is a
sign of God's favor upon
them as His earthly
people, "like the sand
of the sea" they were to
be and bye and bye in
the kingdom age they
will cover the whole
face of the earth, and
as they were a curse
among the nations so
will they be a blessing.
Not many years ago we
read in geographies and
statistics that the Jews
number about seven
million. To-day no one
would give this figure.
The lowest estimate is
ten million, and some
state that eighteen and
twenty million are
nearer the truth.
The new American Jewish
Yearbook contains the
following numbers:
THE BRITISH EMPIRE. |
England and
Wales |
176,000 |
South Africa |
30,000 |
Scotland |
8,200 |
Gibraltar |
2,000 |
Ireland |
3.898 |
Malta
|
173 |
Australasia |
16,850 |
Aden |
3,000 |
Canada and
British Columbia
|
25,000 |
Cyprus
|
119 |
Barbadoes |
21 |
Hong Kong
|
143 |
Trinidad |
31 |
Straits Settlement |
535 |
Jamaica |
2,400 |
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India
|
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Total |
286,598 |
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GENERAL JEWISH
STATISTICS |
United
States |
1,253,213 |
Netherlands |
103,988 |
British Empire
|
286,598 |
Curacao |
103 |
Abyssinia (Falashas) |
120,000 |
Surinam |
1,121 |
Argentine
Republic |
22,500 |
Persia |
35,000 |
Austria-Hungary
|
2,076,378 |
Peru |
498 |
Belgium |
12,000 |
Roumania
|
262,348 |
Bosnia,
Herzegovina |
8,213 |
Russia |
5,189.401 |
Brazil |
3,000 |
Servia
|
6,000 |
China |
300 |
Spain |
402 |
Costa Rica |
43 |
Sweden and
Norway |
3,402 |
Cuba |
4,000 |
Switzerland |
12,264 |
Denmark |
3,476 |
Turkey |
66,361 |
France |
90,000 |
Bulgaria |
33,717 |
Algeria |
57,132 |
Egypt |
25,200 |
Tunis |
60,000 |
Crete |
1,150 |
Germany (2) |
586,948 |
Turkistan and
Afghanistan |
14,000 |
Greece |
5,792 |
Venezuela
|
411 |
Italy |
35,617 |
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Luxemburg |
1,201 |
Total |
10,932,777 |
Mexico |
1,000 |
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Morocco |
150,000 |
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Professor Heman, of
Basle, Switzerland, a
man who has been deeply
interested in the Jews
for many years and who
has given the subject a
careful study, has
recently declared that
the Jewish population of
the world is at least
19,000,000.
His estimate is that, in
Europe 11,000,000 of
Jews reside, and outside
of Europe, 8,000,000.
The United
States has 1,000,000. In
Europe, Russia has
5,500,000;
Austria-Hungary,
1,860,000; Germany,
568,000; Roumania,
300,000; Great Britain,
200,000; Turkey,
120,000; Holland,
97,000; France, 77,000;
Italy, 50,000; Bulgaria, 31,000;
Switzerland, 12,000;
Greece, 6,000; Servia,
5,000; Denmark, 4,000;
Sweden, 3,500; Belgium,
3,000; Spain, 2,500.
Portugal has only 300
Jewish residents.
We believe the
statistics of the Jewish
American Yearbook are
too low and the
statements of Mr. Heman
are too high. Most
likely fifteen and
one-half millions of
Jews living in the world
in 1904 comes nearer the
truth.
The Jewish American
Yearbook underestimates
the Jewish Russian
population and while in
the main correct as
regards Europe, the
number of Jews living in
non-European countries
is placed much too low.
We think, from close
observation, that in the
United States over one
and one-half millions of
Jews reside, and they
are continually
increasing; Jewish
immigration is at
present very large
again. The largest
Jewish city of the world
is Greater New York,
over 500,000 reside in
this great metropolis.
The New York Jewish
quarter is the largest
of its kind which ever
existed in the history
of the world. It has its
own language, the
Yiddish, its theatres
and a semi-Oriental life
is kept up. Here, as
elsewhere, they are
strangers in a strange
land, though thousands
call America their
Palestine and New York a
better Jerusalem, still
they are "a people
dwelling alone."
The continued increase
of the seed of Abraham
is one of the signs of
the times.
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