Bureau of Statistics of Jews

The Bureau for Statistics of the Jews was a member of Berlin at the beginning of the 20. Association founded century, which aimed to promote the research of the social relations of the Jews of all countries with the means and methods of scientific statistics.^{[ 1]}

The later chairman Alfred Nossig founded an association in 1902 in Halensee after many years of preliminary work, which published the collection of Jewish statistics in 1903. After winning the large Jewish organizations and communities for the purposes of the association and pledged their financial support, the association founded on 1. October 1904 a permanent office in Berlin. Local groups of the Bureau were created in Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Berlin^{.[ 2]}

In particular, the directors Jacob Segall and Arthur Ruppin made important contributions to the history of German Jewry. From January 1905, the Bureau published the monthly journal for demographics and statistics of the Jews under Ruppin’s editorial staff,^[[3][4] ^[4]in which, in addition to statisticians, anthropologists such as Felix von Luschan, Maurice Fishberg , Arkadius Elkind ^[5]^[5] and Samuel Weissenberg were represented with treatises on the anthropology of the Jews.