JEWISH STATISTICS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 21, 1876

JEWISH STATISTICS.

The following from the N. Y. World, shows the large number of nationalities among which the Jews are scattered, and the wide extent of territory embraced in their dispersions. Yet they remain a distinct people. Who can account for this phenomenon except on the ground that the Bible, which predicted this strange fact, is the word of God? What other nation, looking the whole earth over, could have been rooted out of their native land, and scattered all over the earth, and yet for 1800 years have remained a distinct and separate people? Not one. A glance at history shows how they would, in a few generations, have been lost and swallowed up among the nationalities with which they mingled, as nation after nation has been. Yet the Jews are everywhere Jews to-day. They thus stand forth as witnesses to the day of the true Sabbath, and a monument of the fulfillment of God's word:—

“A pamphlet just issued contains some interesting statistics—estimates would perhaps be a better word—concerning the Jews. The author, the Rev. J. Miller, places their total number at 7,074,858, as follows: In Europe, 5,226,858; in Asia, 591,000; in Africa, 792,000; in America, 450,000; in the British colonies, 15,000. Russia contains a Jewish population of 2,647,036; Austria of 1,300,000; Germany of 512,171; Rumania of 255,000; Turkey of 200,000; France of 95,000; England of 70,000, of whom 30,000 are residents of London; Holland of 68,892, and Italy of 53,000. In Norway, Spain and Portugal the total Hebrew population is set down at less than 500.

“The Jewish race still preserves its remarkable vitality in Austrian Galicia, where there are now 500,000 Israelites, the increase during the semi-century from 1821 to 1870, according to the tables of Joseph Hain, has been 150 per cent., while the ordinary population has only increased during the same period twenty-five per cent. Mr. Miller places the Hebrew population of New York at 80,000 and that of Chicago at 30,000.”