| Sumario: | The article describes a technique for converting the Yiddish mother tongue statistics into a portrait of the geographic distribution of the Jewish population within a specific American metropolis. In a 1970 census, 1,593,993 persons answered Yiddish in response to the mother tongue query. The technique for estimating the total Jewish population is based on the assumption that in each subarea the proportion of the population below 25-years-old is similar to that for the aggregate population. Four metropolitan areas were chosen: Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Saint Louis, and Cleveland. There are 107,000 Jews in the Washington area in 1970. While in Baltimore, about 40 percent of a Jewish population of approximately 93,000 resided in the central city.
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