Increase in Intermarriage, Conformity Concern Jews of U.S.; Year Book Notes World Population An estimated current intermar- riage rate between Jews and non- Jews of from 10 to 15 per cent is likely to increase in the coming years, states Arnold Schwartz, re- search analyst of the American Jewish Committee, in a leading article in the 1970 edition of the American Jewish Year Book. The Year Book is co-published by the AJCommittee and the Jewish Pub- lication Society of America. About 85 per cent of Jewish youth attend college, where they meet many non-Jews and often view religion and ethnic boundaries as "confining parochialisms," Schwartz writes in his article. He reports that Jews are leaving the traditional Jewish independent oc- cupations, "with their strong Jew- ish and family and social associa- tions," in favor of salaried profes- sions where they meet more non- Jews. Schwartz arrived at an esti- mated intermarriage rate of 10 to 15 per cent by analyzing the rates given in the limited avail- able studies of the subject. "These figures are higher than in earlier decades, when the Jew- ish commitment to endogamy was stronger (or when the wel- come from gentile quarters was less warm)," he writes. "But the rates are not yet high enough to warrant fear of an imminent dissolution of the American Jew- ish community by intermar- riage." Studies have been taken of the intermarriage rate in Indiana and Iowa, the only states that record a couple's religion, the author re- ports. The Jewish proscription against intermarriage still remains in force, Schwartz maintains, but notes that disapproval of intermar- riage "is tempered by the Amer - ican ethos . .. which places prim, ary emphasis on the individual- his will, his choices, his personal well-being." One's potential hap- piness with a mate, therefore, overrides Judaism's concern with whether or not that mate is Jew- ish. Rabbi Gerald Engel, Hillel Foun- dation director at Purdue Univer- sity, states in an article on "North American Settlers in Israel," that concern about conformity, mate- rialism, assimilation a n d anti- Semitism in the United States. coupled with a strong desire "to live a Jewish life among Jews," have been the main factors influen- cing Jews from the U.S. and Can- ada to emigrate to Israel, Rabbi Engel sent question- naires to native Americans and Canadians who went to Israel from 1955 through 1966 and be- came permanent r eside n t s ("olim") during 1962.1966. Ninety per cent of them were from the United States. "They left be- cause they felt a growing anxiety about being part of a society in which materialism and conform. ity threatened the realization of their hum an potential," he writes, basing his observations on their returned questionnaires. The author foresees assimilation, and dissatisfaction with the "emo- tional unbalance of society," as the major concern of those Americans who will immigrate to Israel in the 1970s. There are an estimated /3,875,- 000 Jews in the world, 5,870,000 of them in the United States, ac- cording to the Year Bock. Leon Shapiro, writer on Russian Jewish affairs and lecturer on Russian-Jewish history at Rutgers University, prepared the Year Book tables by sending question "mires to major Jewish bodies in .elected countries. He cautions that the estimates he presents are of "varying degrees of accuracy." After the United States, countries with the largest Jewish population are the Soviet Union, 2,620,000; Israel, 2,497,000; France, 535,000; Argentina, 500,000; Great Britain, 410,000; and Canada, 280,000. The United States, Soviet Union and Israel together have 79 per cent of the world's Jewish population, Sha- piro notes. European Jewry numbers 4,030,- 300 persons, of whom 2,800,000 are in Communist countries. Some of tae nations Shapiro reports on include: Austria, 8,200; Czecho- slovakia, 14,000; Denmark, 6,000; Finland, 1,450; Germany, 30,000; Ireland, 5,400; Italy, 30,000; the Netherlands, 30,000; Poland, 15,- 000; Romania, 100,000; Spain, 7,- 000; Sweden, 15,000; Switzerland, 20,000; Turkey, 39,000 including Asian regions); and Yugoslavia, 7,500. Central and South America have 780,000 Jews. Estimated fig- ures for Latin America and the West Indies include: Mexico, 36- 000; Cuba, 1,700; Guatemala, 1,500; Jamaica, 600; Panama, 2,000; Ar- gentina, 500,000; Brazil, 150,000; Colombia, 10,000; Ecuador, 2,000; Peru, 4,000; Uruguay, 54,000; and Venezuela, 12,000. seam. Aloe Arhers furnish- Lop* insured and I.C.C. limuseod DRIVEAWAY SERVICE 9970 Grind River Detroit, Mich. 48204 WE 1-0620-21-22 JACK'S SATURDAY & SUNDAY SALE Sportscoats $40 $25 reg. to $65.00 Open 10-3 t.,, Sunday R.,. eors R. 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Of the 2,600,000 Jews in Asia, Shapiro reports, besides the 2,997,000 in Israel, 80,000 are in Iran, and 15,000 in India. Ex- cept for Turkey and Asian USSR, no other Asian country has as many as 5,000 Jews, and China has virtually none. Data for other Asian nations are: TEL AVIV (JTA)-An Israeli la- bor official has asked West Germ- an Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, to reconsider the appointment of THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Freidrich Karl Vialon as his chief political adviser. 12-Friday, November 13, 1970 Hillel Seidel, a member of the Histradrut executive, claimed in a letter to Scheel that he has docu- Verrzco ELECTRONIC mentary evidence that Vialon was engaged in building extermination OPENER camps in Lithuania and Estonia GARAGE DOOR during World War II. According to Seidel, he was shown the documents during a visit to Tallin, Estonia in 1967, and obtained photostatic copies of them. Vision's Nazi past was pre- viously investigated by the war crimes prosecutor in Koblenz and he was subsequently barred from any official post, Seidel said. .....: The American Jewish Year Book are: Amsterdam, 12,000; Brussels, 24,000; Buenos Aires, 360,000; editors are Morris Fine and Mil- Glasgow, 13,400; Haifa, 207,500; ton Himmelfarb, with Mrs. Martha Jerusalem, 195,000; Johannesburg, Jelenko as associate editor. 57,800; Kiev, 220,000; Leningrad, 165,000; London (greater), 280,000; Melbourne, 35,000; Montreal, 110,- 000; Moscow, 285,000; Paris, 300,- 000; Rio de Janeiro, 50,000; Rome, 15,000; Sao Paulo, 65,000; Stock- holm, 7,500; Sydney, 28,000; Tel Single or Double Breasted Aviv-Jaffa, 394,000; Tokyo, 400; Toronto, 88,000; Vienna, 8,200; Warsaw, 5,000; and Zurich, 6,150. 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