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

SEX OF JEWISH IMMIGRANT ILLITERATES, 1908 TO 1912[1][ToT]

Year	Jewish immigrants 14 years of age and over		Jewish immigrants illiterates 14 years of age and over
			Number		Per cent
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
1908	43270	34104	9455	13762	21.9	40.4
1909	23452	18889	4832	7369	20.6	39.0
1910	35272	27120	7593	10370	21.5	38.2
1911	38018	31370	6453	10304	16.9	32.8
1912	32706	27799	5637	9498	17.2	34.2
Total	172718	139282	33970	51303	19.7	36.8
[1] In order to ascertain the number of males and females, 14 years of age and over, the number of Jewish immigrants under 14 years of age were distributed equally between the sexes. Subtracting these respectively from the number of males and females, we obtain the above totals. Cf. Report of New York State Commission on Immigration, 1908, p. 171.

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ILLITERACY OF EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS,[1] 1899 to 1910[2][ToT]

People	Immigrants 14 years of age and over	Immigrant illiterates 14 years of age and over
		Number	Per cent
Jewish	806786	209507	26.0
Bohemian and Moravian	79721	1322	1.7
Croatian and Slovenian	320977	115785	36.1
English	347458	3647	1.0
Finnish	137916	1745	1.3
German	625793	32236	5.2
Greek	208608	55089	26.4
Irish	416640	10721	2.6
Italian, North	339301	38897	11.5
Italian, South	1690376	911566	53.9
Lithuanian	161441	79001	48.9
Magyar	307082	35004	11.4
Polish	861303	304675	35.4
Ruthenian	140775	75165	53.4
Scandinavian	530634	2221	.4
Scotch	115788	767	.7
Slovak	342583	82216	24.0
Total[3]	8398624	2238801	26.7
[1] All peoples with an immigration below 100,000 excluded, except the Bohemian and Moravian.
[2] From Statistical Review of Immigration, p. 51.
[3] Total for all races.

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