THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14 Friday, February 9, 1979
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Cardinal OKs
Passion Play
NEW YORK Joseph
Cardinal Ratzinger, ar-
chbishop of Munich and
Freising, West Germany,
has given the controversial
Daisenberger text of the
Oberammergau Passion
Play a clean bill of health,
according to the Jewish Post
and Opinion.
A statement from the
cardinal's office said he had
been unable to detect any
anti-Semitic tendencies in
the script.
Both Jewish and Catholic
groups are threatening to
boycott the decennial per-
formance of the play,
scheduled for the summer of
1980. The groups have been
advocating the use of an
earlier version of the play.
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Year Book Publishes Population Statistics
NEW YORK - The
Jewish population of the
U.S., whose total numbers
have levelled off, is begin-
ning to move in increasing
numbers from the North-
east to the Sun Belt, com-
parable to the general popu-
lation.
The reality of Jewish zero
population growth and the
trend of American Jews to
migrate to the South and
West are demonstrated in
demographic reports on
Jewish population, in the
United States, which ap-
pear in the 1979 edition of
the American Jewish Year
Book.
Alvin Chenkin and
Maynard Miran of the
Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds,
point out that this year's es-
timate of the Jewish popu-
lation of the United States,
5,781,000, is virtually the
same as last year's,
5,776,000. They add that
the 1970 National Jewish
Population Study found
that the number of Jews in
the U.S: had levelled-off and
it predicted no significant
shift within the next de-
cade. This has now been
confirmed, they suggest,
with the recent population
figures published in the
Year Book. '
Turning to the move-
ment of Jews within the
U.S., Chenkin and Miran
point out that in 1978, the
. number of Jews residing
in the Northeast and
North Central states was
about two percent less
than in 1977.
Likewise, the. South and
West accounted for about
two percent more of the
total Jewish population in
1978 than in 1977. "The two
states showing the greatest
increase in the South and
West, respectively, are
Florida and California," the
authors declare.
Figures on world Jewish
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population in the Year Book
show an estimated increase
of only 26,475 over the pre-
vious year, a negligible
proportion of the overall fi-
gure of 14,286,000. The
world Jewish popillation
statistics were compiled by
Leon Shapiro, Professor of
Russian and Soviet Jewish
History at Rutgers Univer-
sity.
After the U.S., countries
with significantly large
numbers of Jews are: Israel,
3,076,000; Soviet Union,
2,678,000; France, 650,000;
Great Britain, 410,000;
Canada, 305,000; Argen-
tina, 300,000; Brazil,
150,000; and South Africa,
118,000. Forty-seven per-
cent of world Jewry is lo-
cated in North, Central and
South America, 29 percent
in Europe, 22 percent in
Asia, 1.5 percent in Africa -,
and 0.5 percent in Australia
and New Zealand.
In the United States,
Jews comprise 2.7 percent of
the total population.
Among the Jewish
population figures for
U.S. cities listed in the
Year Book's tables are:
Greater New York,
1,998,000; Los Angeles,
455,000; Philadelphia,
295,000; Chicago, 253,000;
Miami, 225,000; Boston,
170,000; Washington,
160,000; Bergen County
(N.J.), 100,000; Essex
County (N.J.), 95,000; Bal-
timore, 92,000; Cleveland,
80,000; Detroit, 80,000;
San Francisco, 75,000;
Montgomery County
(Md.), 70,000; and St.
Louis, 60,000.
In Europe, including
Asiatic USSR and Turkey,
there are 4,163,370 Jews. Of
these, 2,678,000 are in the
Soviet Union.
Figures for other Euro-
pean countries include: Au-
stria, 13,000; Belgium,
41,000; Bulgaria, 7,000;
Czechoslovakia, 13,000;
Denmark, 7,500; France,
650,000; Germany, 34,000;
Great Britain, 410,000;
Greece, 6,000; Hungary,
80,000; Ireland, 4,000;
Italy, 39,000; Netherlands,
30,000; Poland, 6,000;
Rumania, 60,000; Spain,
10,000; Sweden, 16,000;
Switzerland, 21,000; Tur-
key, 27,000; and Yugos-
lavia, 6,000.
Estimated population for
major centers of Jewish con-
centration in the Americas,
outside the United States,
include: Canada, 305,000;
Argentina, 300,000; Brazil,
150,000; Uruguay, 50,000;
Mexico, 37,500; -Chile,
27,000; Venezuela, 15,000;
Colombia, 12,000; and Peru,
5,200.
In Asia, the only major
centers of Jewish popu-
lation, except , for Israel,
are Iran, 80,000; and In-
dia, 8,000. In Africa, there
are substantial numbers
of Jews only in South Af-
rica, 118,000; Ethiopia,
38,000; Morocco, 18,000;
Tunisia, 7,000; and
Rhodesia, 3,800. There
are 70,000 Jews in Au-
stralia, and 5,000 in New
Zealand.
Among the major world
cities outside the U.S.
where Jews are located are:
Amsterdam, 20,000;
Antwerp, 13,000; Brussels,
24,500; Bucharest, 40,000;
Budapest, 65,000; Cape
israehs Demand
Indian Statehood
TEL AVIV - Approxi-
mately 20 students dressed
as American Indians
climbed a canopy at the.
American Embassy last
Thursday and unfurled
banners saying the U.S.
should set up a separate
state for American Indians
if it insists on a separate
state for Palestinians.
.The students also said the
U.S. should be more con-__
cerned about the care of In-
dians on reservations. Some
of the students set up
teepees in front of the Em-
bassy. The students on the
canopy climbed down when
ordered to do so by the police
and were detained.
On Sunday, in Jerusalem,
a group of Americans living
in Israel who all identified
themselves as members of
the Democratic Party began
circulating a petition ask-
ing President Carter to
enact the Democratic Party
platform pledge and move
the American Embassy
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Israel'4 Declaration of In-
dependence: was - issued on
May-14, 1948,
Town, 25,650; Glasgow,
13,000; Haifa, 210,000; Is-
tanbul, 23,000; Jerusalem,
266,000; Johannesburg,
57,500; Kiev, 170,000;
Leeds, 18,000; Leningrad,
165,000; London, 280,000;
Lyons, 20,000; Manchester,
35,000; Marseille, 65,000;
Melbourne, 34;000; Mexico
City, 32,500; Montevideo,
48,000; Montreal, 115,000;
Moscow, 285,000; Nice,
20,000; Paris, 300,000;
Porto Alegre, 12,000; Rio de
Janeiro, 55,000; Rome,
10,000; Sao Paulo, 75,000;
Strasbourg, 12,000; Sydney,
28,500; Teheran, 50,000;
Tel Aviv - Jaffa, 394,000;
Toronto, 116,000; Toulouse,
18,000; Vancouver, 12,000;
and Winnipeg, 20,000.
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