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Here’s the Jewish population by state:

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-population-in-the-united-states-by-state.

NY,NJ, MA and CA account for most of the total. MS, not so much.

[Verginius Rufus]

I wonder how accurate the 1899 figures are. Some state totals seem higher than you would expect, especially in the South. The 1890 census records were lost so the last census rolls with names on them had been in 1880, 19 years before (but another census was taken in 1900).