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The population of Jews in Leipzig dropped from 11,000 in 1933 to 4,470 by 1939. [4] Jews were forced from their homes to homes for Jews called "Judenhaus". [4] In September 1939 Germany launched the invasion of Poland starting World War II.
Germany has the third-largest Jewish population in Western Europe after France (600,000) and Britain (300,000) [101] and the fastest-growing Jewish population in Europe in recent years. The influx of immigrants, many of them seeking renewed contact with their Ashkenazi heritage, has led to a
In 1925 in Germany, 563,733 people, or 0.9% of the population, considered themselves as members of the Jewish religious community; the proportion fell to 499,682 (0.8%) under the influence of the Nazi persecution of Jews in the census of 16 June 1933. By 1939, the number of Jews in the German Reich had drastically decreased to 233,973 (0.34%).
The global Jewish population reached 13 million by 1995 and 14 million by 2010. This growth continued, with the population reaching 15 million in 2020. However, the Jewish population has not yet recovered to its pre-World War II size of approximately 16.5 million. [1]
Boycott of Jewish shops on April 1, 1933 Boycott news in a newspaper in 1933. Aryanization, which was the expulsion of Jews from life in Germany and the transfer of Jewish property to non-Jews, happened in two phases: the first between 1933 and 1938, and the second from 1938 until the end of the war in 1945. [80]
The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germany came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards.
During this peak in the Jewish population, many Leipzig Jews were members of the upper-middle-class, which included businessmen, craftspeople, white-collar workers, physicians, and lawyers. [9] The Jewish community of Leipzig established several programs to help the needy, and by the start of World War I there were 48 active charities. [4]
The Jewish population of Europe in 2010 was estimated to be approximately 1.4 million (0.2% of the European population) or 10% of the world's Jewish population. [6] In the 21st century, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe, [6] [10] followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine. [10]