1915 Census Proclamations (English and Yiddish)

In 1915, Governor David Walsh issued a proclamation informing local communities in Massachusetts about the Decennial Census to be taken in 1915. The proclamation was printed in Yiddish, Mandarin, German, Polish, and several other languages to inform non-English speaking communities about the census. In the Yiddish version, Yiddish transliteration of the English word is put into parentheses next to the original Yiddish word, possibly indicating a loss of Yiddish language in the US.

Citation: English and Yiddish Census Proclamations.1915. GO1 235x. Massachusetts Archives. Boston, Massachusetts.