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Show yj . " ' From a racial standpoint New York presents a striking peculiarity. It contains con-tains more Irishmen than any city in Ireland; it is the largest German city except Berlin, and the largest Italian city except Naples. More remarkable than all this, however, is the fact that the city now shelters, more Jews than were ever assembled before in one place perhaps since the beginning of time. At its period of greatest prosperity Jerusalem Je-rusalem contained about, six hundred thousand Jews; New York has about one million. In Greater New York one man in every five is a Jew ; in Manhattan Manhat-tan one man in every four. From World's Work. n |