ers, one synod, 10 pastors, 37 organized congregations,
3,785 communicant members.

For the Poles, Bohemians, and Magyars, work is done by the various
German synods, the late statistics of which are not at hand. Besides
congregations in these languages, many understand German and are served
by German pastors.

The whole Lutheran Church of America, including the Swedish Mission
Friends with 33,000 members and the German Evangelical Synod with
222,000 members, the constituents of which are nearly all Lutherans,
making in all 8,956 pastors, 15,135 churches, and 2,123,639 communicant
members are the results of immigrant mission work or mission work in
foreign languages or languages other than English.

ANALYSIS OF THE IMMIGRATION FOR 1905, WITH REGARD TO RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATIONS AND EASE OF ASSIMILATION[102]

First class and the easiest to assimilate are

English 50,865 Reformed
Scotch 16,144 Reformed
Germans 82,360 Luth. and Cath.
Scandinavians 62,284 Lutheran
Irish 54,266 Catholic.
Finns 17,012 Lutheran
Letts, et al. 18,604 Lutheran
Slovaks 52,368 Lutheran
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Total 353,903

Second class and the second easiest to assimilate:

Magyars 46,030 Ref. and Cath.
Bohemians, etc 11,757 Ref. and Cath.
French 11,021 Ref. and Cath.
Ruthenians 14,473 Catholic
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Total 83,281

Third class and the most difficult to evangelize and Americanize and the
class that makes the new problem difficult:

Poles 102,137 Catholic
Italians 226,320 Catholic
Hebrews 129,910 Israelites
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Total 458,367

APPENDIX D

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bernheimer, Charles S., Editor. The Russian Jew in the United States. B.
F. Buck & Co., New York $1.50. Written mostly by Jews; replete with
facts gathered in the various centers--New York, Philadelphia, Chicago,
Boston. Should be read by those who would understand this remarkable
people.

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