Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Many Jews were connected with the sale and exploitation of land in Pennsylvania. In 1763, owing to the depredations of the Shawnee and Delaware Indians in Bedford County , twelve traders suffered a loss of £80,000, among whom were David Franks, Levy Andrew Levy, and Joseph Simon.
The history of the Jews in Pittsburgh dates back to the mid-19th century. In 2002, Jewish households represented 3.8% of households in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. [1] As of 2017, there were an estimated 50,000 Jews in the Greater Pittsburgh area. [2]
On the 300 block of Lombard Street alone there were five sweatshops. After 1900, Jews moved south across Washington Avenue and within just a few years they lived in great numbers south of Washington Avenue and east of Broad Street. Many Jews in the clothing trade prospered during the 1920s and moved to West Philadelphia and Strawberry Mansion.
In 2023, 960,000 Jews live in the city, nearly half of them live in Brooklyn. [5] [3] [2] Census enumerations in many countries do not record religious or ethnic background, leading to a lack of certainty regarding the exact numbers of Jewish adherents. Therefore, the following list of cities ranked by Jewish population is not complete.
There are more than 300,000 potential Jewish voters in both Pennsylvania and the six swing House districts in New York combined. “Jews For Safety & Security In America consists of former ...
Nowhere is that more apparent than in Pennsylvania, the swing state with the largest Jewish population — about 300,000 voting-age Jews in a state President Joe Biden won by roughly 80,000 votes ...
Metropolitan Philadelphia's Jewish population, the sixth-largest in the United States, was estimated at 206,000 in 2001 and almost 300,000 in 2009. [3] (though this number includes many unaffiliated Jews). Jewish traders were operating in southeastern Pennsylvania long before William Penn.
In an election that will likely be decided on the margins, the votes of Jewish Pennsylvanians could be key to determining who wins the commonwealth’s 19 electoral votes – and with it, the ...