ocr: Falling birth rates, increasing intermarriage, and the spreading incidence of conversion led to a sharp decline in the number of German Jews-irom 615,000 in 1910 I to 564,000 in 1925-despite the continued influx of Eastern European Jews. Several Jewish communities, which had been abandoned by a majority of their members, fell into a severe economic crisis. Assessments as to the possibility that German Jewry would vanish altogether within a generation or two became common.
