Demography
Jewish community before 1989 – Polska / wielkopolskie
The town’s population:
1674 – 244, 1793 – 3,350, 1808 – 5,097, 1810 – 3,114, 1816 – 3,034, 1849 – 6,348, 1871 – 9,916, 1880 – 13,829, 1903 – 21,661, 1914 – 26,900, 1921 – 22,845, 1931 – 30,700, 1937 – 33,200, 1946 – 30,300, 1961 – 45,190, 2007 – 69,732.
The number and percentage of the Jewry:
1674 – 24 (9.8%), 1676 – 16, 1744 – 60, 1800 – 761, 1816 – 592 (19.5%), 1830 – 1,395, 1840 – 1,750, 1842 – 1,830, 1845 – 1,974, 1849 – 1,783 (28.1%), 1870 – 1,434, 1903 – 1,127 (5.2%), 1905 – 1,065, 1921 - 395 (1.5%), the beginning of 1939 – 137, summer 1939 – about 80 - 90.
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