American Jewish Population in 1800

In the United States, it was more likely for female family members to work. Often, this meant success or failure for the family. Many Jewish women married non-Jews. Others became the mainstay of the Jewish family. Non-Jews often depicted the Jewish family falsely, with Jewish men seen as successful capitalists while their wives and daughters were pampered women who never worked. The truth was that Jewish women worked hard and kept their families together (25-26).

Income and education varied widely, but the commercial elite became a growing part of the Jewish community in the nineteenth century. Most lived in urban centers. Most of these communities were held together by German culture. Many Jews also worked as itinerant peddlers or merchants in hundreds of villages and towns with a small number of Jewish inhabitants (26).

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the incidence of intermarriage was high, a partial testimony to Jewish acceptability. Estimates of Jewish intermarriage range from more than 20 percent for the country generally to 50 percent for wid

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