THE JEW IN AMERICA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 13

THE JEW IN AMERICA.

Mr. Herbert N. Casson, in Munaey's Magazine, expresses the opinion that at tho present rate of immigration another century will sec moro than half of the Jewish race Bottled' in America. New York already contains about thirty times as many Jews as there are in Jerusalem i and the newcomers who land ovcry .six months would mako a larger city than that hiitorio site of a departed splendour, Tho total numbor of Jews in all countries is eleven millions, About fourteen hundred thousand arc now in America — nearly 2 per cent, of tho population. Half of the/w aro in New York and ono-tontli in Chicago. According to the same writer, the Jews havo the best of rights to bo in America. Thoy were there first, Tho epoch-making voyago of Columbus would not havo been pottsiblo without the aid of a Jew, Luis de Santagol, who odvanced the necessary money for Iho expedition, 160,000d01, ns a personal loan to tho King and Qiwon. Tho pretty story about Qiw»n Isabella pawning lior Jewels was invented years afterwards. Tho great navigator's map was drawn by lubes, called tho Map Jew 1 his astronomical tables woro com* pied by tho Jew Abraham Zacuto) his Abip'M doctor \vn» Berual tho Jew ) his superintendent was Rodrlgo Banohcis tho Jow j tho first sailor who saw land was Itodrlgo do Triana tho Jew"; and tho first European to set foot on American soil waa tho interpreter, Luis de Torres tho Jow. Tho Amorioanlftlng proocas of tho Jew is now in full swing, nnd it Is said they make good material for oltteen* ship because thoy are tho only mmigrants who havo no flag and no father* land.