THE JEWS: RACE AND ENVIRONMENT 



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riages. It must, however, be mentioned in this connection that in 

 Budapest, the capital of Hungary, where social intercourse between 

 Jews and christians is more common, and the Jews are on a higher 

 economic and intellectual plane than their coreligionists in the prov- 

 ince, the rate of intermarriage is nearly double, reaching 17 per cent, in 

 1904, although it is only ten years since they have been legally per- 

 mitted to marry with christians. In Germany similar conditions pre- 

 vail. Of a total number of 468,329 marriages contracted during 1901, 

 only 41,014 were between persons of different faith, i. e., only 9.59 

 mixed marriages to 100 pure marriages. Among the Jews in that 

 country there were during that year contracted 3,878 pure and 658 

 mixed marriages, or 16.97 per cent., which shows a larger tendency to 

 intermarry among the Jews than among the general population. 

 Taking the three chief religions in Germany, we find the following 

 proportions of mixed marriages : 



It is noteworthy that in Germany catholics are more given to inter- 

 marry than the protestants, which is exactly the reverse of conditions 

 in Hungary. To 100 pure catholic marriages, during 1901, there were 

 26.95 catholics who married protestants, while only 14.1 per cent, of 

 protestants were married to catholics, which is even less than the rate 

 of Jewish mixed marriages in that country, 16.97 per cent. In Prussia 

 also the catholics intermarried more than the protestants and Jews, 

 the proportions being, catholics, 27.07 per cent. ; protestants, 13.78 per 

 cent., and Jews, 17.71 per cent. In Bavaria, on the other hand, the 

 reverse is true. There the protestants intermarry to a much larger 

 extent than the catholics. The latter had 37.03 per cent, of mixed 

 marriages, as against only 14.45 per cent, among the former, and 9.4 

 per cent, among the Jews. It appears from these figures that ad- 

 herents of the religion of the majority of the inhabitants are less likely 

 to marry outside of their faith than persons following the creeds which 

 are in the minority. Thus in Germany where 62.51 per cent, of the 

 population is protestant, and only 36.06 per cent, catholic, the latter 



