Siedlce - demography

Year Total number of inhabitants Number of Jews Percentage of Jews out of the total number of inhabitants
1820 4399 3072 70.0
1821 4441 2908 65.5
1827 4414 2908 66.0
1839 5218 3727 71.0
1840 6471 4359 67.0
1846 8000 3032 38.0
1850 7472 4788 64.0
1855 7263 4804 66.0
1858 7628 5153 67.0
1865 9710 7094 73.0
1878 11,931 8156 68.0
1897 15,131 10,094 67.0
1900 23,304 13,470 57.8
1911 31,153 17,157 55.1
1918 30,742 16,820 54.7
1921 30,593 14,685 48.0
1931 38,876 14,793 36.1
1940 39,543 12,733 32.2

Sources:

Data for the years 1820-1897: Winter A., Dzieje Siedlec 1448-1918 (History of Siedlce, 1448-1918), Warszawa 1969, pp. 41, 123-125; Kopówka E., Żydzi w Siedlcach 1850-1945 (Jews in Siedlce, 1850-1945), Siedlce 2009, p. 227.

Data for the year 1900: Kowalczuk M., "Publiczne biblioteki żydowskie na Podlasiu w XIX i XX w." ("Public Jewish libraries in Podlasie in the 19th and 20th cc."), [in:] Żydzi na Podlasiu (Jews in Podlasie), Chyra-Rolicz Z., Tarasiuk R., Kopówka E., eds., Siedlce 2010, p. 210.

Data for the year 1911: Kopówka E., Żydzi w Siedlcach 1850-1945 (Jews in Siedlce, 1850-1945), Siedlce 2009, p. 51.

Data for the years 1911-1931[[ref:|D. Mączka, referring to other historians, quotes that, in 1921, there were 14,136 Jews in the city, that is 46.1% of all inhabitants. Information after: Mączka D., Żydzi w powiecie siedleckim w okresie międzywojennym, [in:] Żydzi na Podlasiu (Jews in Podlasie), Chyra-Rolicz Z., Tarasiuk R., Kopówka E., eds., Siedlce 2010, p. 307. According to S. Bronsztejn, there were 39.9% Jews in the city, Information after: S. Bronsztejn, Ludność żydowska w Polsce w okresie międzywojennym (Jewish Population in Poland in the Interwar Period), Wrocław 1963, p. 18.]]: "Siedlce", [in:] The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Spector Sh., Wigoder G., eds., vol. 3: Seredin-Buda – Zet, p. 1176.

Translated by LIDEX

Data for the year 1940 (as of 1 October) after: Kopówka E., Żydzi w Siedlcach 1850-1945, Siedlce 2009, page 229.

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