ABSTRACT
German-Jewish history has drawn to a close and the time seems therefore proper to evaluate its wider significance. The maps indicate the central position of German Jewry in the history of Jewish migration in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Map shows the Jewish settlements in Middle Europe around 1800. At that time, Italy, France, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, England, and the Scandinavian countries had only a very sparse or non-existent Jewish population. A dense Jewish population was living all over the regions which belonged or, by 1800, had belonged to the old kingdom of Poland, namely Poland proper, Galicia, Wolhynia, Podolia, Lithuania, and large parts of White Russia and the Ukraine. It is to be concluded that the emerging Jewish civilization in America cannot be understood unless it is conceived as standing on the shoulders of preceding generations in many lands.
