Chapter 1. A Time of Crisis:
1929-1932
[1.4. Jewish Populations in Eastern Europe
1921-1929]
The need for these reconstruction plans was obvious as far as
the Jewish population of Poland, Romania, and other countries
in Eastern Europe was concerned. There were a considerable
number of these Jews in 1929:
-- an estimated 2,850,000 in Poland (according to the 1921
census, or about 3,090,000 by 1929);
-- some 260,000 in Lithuania and Latvia (according to censuses
held in 1921 in Lithuania and 1925 in Latvia);
-- in Romania an estimated 760,000 for 1925;
-- in Czechoslovakia, between 350,000 and 400,000;
-- in Hungary, some 450,000.
In all, some 5,000,000 Jews were (p.27)
living in these countries, or about 30 percent of all the Jews
of the world (estimated at 15,000,000 in 1929).
