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The German censuses are particularly reliable because they have 

 been collected for many years with great care, with a view to eliciting 

 the degree of assimilation of the Jewish population. During the four 

 years 1901 to 1904 there were contracted in Germany 15,635 marriages 

 between Jews and Jewesses, and 2,700 between Jews and christians. 

 The mixed marriages constituted consequently 17.27 per cent, of the 

 pure Jewish marriages, or one sixth of all the Jews who married 

 married christians. It was also found that 8.01 per cent, of all the 

 Jewesses and 9.26 per cent, of all Jews in that country married chris- 

 tians. In other words, every twelfth Jewish bride and every eleventh 

 Jewish bridegroom married a christian. 



The largest number of mixed marriages in Germany are contracted 

 in the province of Prussia. There statistics for twenty-eight consecu- 

 tive years are available (1876-1904), during which 71,160 pure Jewish 

 marriages were contracted; 4,740 between christians and Jewesses and 

 5,062 between Jews and christian women. It was also established that 

 the number of mixed marriages is constantly on the increase, as can 

 be seen from the following figures : Average Annual 



Number. 



1S75-1879 239 



1S95-] 899 433 



1900-1904 495 



