Jewish Population in Krakow

From: DZIEJE KRAKOWA by Klemens Bakowski (Krakow, 1911), page 479:

Year           # of Jews in Krakow

1791                 1,986
1815                 4,884
1818                 7,252
1823                 8,010
1825                 9,690
1827                10,121
1842                11,704
1844                13,272
1847                13,066
1850                13,425
1869                17,670
1880                19,947
1890                20,736
1900                25,430

From Professor Goldberg's analysis of the 1791 census of Kazimierz:

AGE    TOTAL    MEN   WOMEN
15-19    194     73    121
20-24    244    116    128
25-29    157     66     91
30-34    260    133    127
35-39    190    105     85
40-44    235    125    110
45-49    104     59     45
50-54    107     65     42
55-59     41     27     14
60+       70     48     22
Total   1602    817    785

Other sources indicate a total Jewish population included in the census was 1660 which implies only 58 children under the age of 15. But this could be consistent with the fact that there was prevalent concealment of children from census officials.

Dan Hirschberg

Computer Science
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3425

dan at ics.uci.edu
Last modified: Mar 29, 2001