Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 / Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914

by Samuel Joseph

TABLE LV

OCCUPATIONS OF TOTAL EUROPEAN AND JEWISH IMMIGRANTS, 1899 TO 1909, AND PERCENTAGE JEWISH OF TOTAL[1][ToT]

Group	Total immigrants	Jewish immigrants	Per cent of total
Professional	803222	6836	8.5
Skilled laborers	1247674	362936	29.1
Farm laborers	1290295	9633	0.1
Farmers	841466	908	1.1
Common laborers	2282565	66311	2.9
Servants	890093	61611	6.9
No occupation	2165287	445728	20.6
Miscellaneous	172652	36219	21.0
Total	8213034	990182	12.1
[1] From Emigration Conditions in Europe, p. 27.

TABLE LVI

TOTAL EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS[1] AND IMMIGRANTS WITHOUT OCCUPATION, 1899 TO 1910[2][ToT]

People	Total immigrants	Without occupation (including women and children)	Per cent of total
Jewish	1074442	484175	45.1
Bohemian and Moravian	100189	39700	39.5
Croatian and Slovenian	355542	37219	11.1
English	408614	158616	38.8
Finnish	151774	28766	18.9
French	115783	45745	39.5
German	745375	296082	39.7
Greek	216962	19244	8.9
Irish	439724	63456	14.4
Italian, North	372668	76046	20.4
Italian, South	1911933	440274	23.0
Lithuanian	175258	33718	19.2
Magyar	338151	78875	23.3
Polish	949064	200634	21.1
Ruthenian	147375	18915	12.9
Scandinavian	586306	111212	18.9
Scotch	136842	47634	34.9
Slovak	377527	87280	23.1
Total	9555673[3]	2506713	26.2
[1] All races with an immigration below 100,000 omitted.
[2] From Statistical Review of Immigration, p. 52.
[3] Total includes all races.