Excerpt from Democracy and Assimilation: The Blending of Immigrant Heritages in America
A detailed discussion of the statistical basis of this book and an appendix giving the source material in full, are contained in a monograph entitled Intermarriage in New York City, A Statistical Study of the Amalgamation of European Peoples, to be published in the Columbia University Studies of History, Economics and Public Law. The data, drawn from more than 100,000 marriage certificates, cover a five-year period (1908-1912) before the European War. The monograph is a companion volume to this book which attempts to supplement the purely objective study of some of the facts of ethnic fusion by an interpretation of their larger bearing upon public policies of assimilation.
My sincere thanks are due to Professor A. A. Tenney and Professor R. E. Chaddock of Columbia University for the unfailing aid and counsel they gave while the book was in preparation. I also wish to acknowledge my great indebtedness to Dr. Philip Klein, Director of the Bureau of Education and Research, Southern Division of the American Red Cross, whose critical comments helped to clarify passages, and to my brother, Mr. Leo Drachsler, whose ceaseless help in the analysis of the original marriage records, in the construction of the statistical tables and in the gathering of much descriptive data, proved to be invaluable.
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