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Australian Jews, or Jewish Australians, (Hebrew: יהודים אוסטרלים, romanized: yehudim ostralim) are Jews who are Australian citizens or permanent residents of Australia. In the 2021 census there were 99,956 people who identified Judaism as their religious affiliation and 29,113 Australians who identified as Jewish by ancestry , an ...
The exact death toll is unknown, although scholarly sources estimate the number of Arabs killed to be between 13,000 and more than 20,000. [164] [165] 25% or more of the Arab population (50,000 people) of Zanzibar were killed by the end of 1964. [164] Maya genocide: Guatemala: 1962 1996 166,000 [167] 166,000 [168]
On 10 October, several individuals in Melbourne made death threats against Jews, one group harassing a rabbi and his son, and another asking where to find Jews, saying they were "hunting for Jews". On 11 October, a man in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales threatened to kill four Jewish teenagers in a car with an Israeli flag draped on it.
Following World War I, another stream of Jewish immigrants came, and when the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933, many German Jews came to Australia. The Australian government was initially hesitant in permitting entry to the many Jews who wanted to come, but in 1938, it allotted 15,000 visas for "victims of oppression".
In the late 19th century, 99.7% of the world's Jews lived outside the region, with Jews representing 2–5% of the Population of Palestine. [11] [12] Through the first five phases of Aliyah, the Jewish population rose to 630,000 by the rebirth of Israel in 1948.
There were also many expulsions of Jews during the Middle Ages and Enlightenment in Europe, including: 1290, 16,000 Jews were expelled from England, see the (Statute of Jewry); in 1396, 100,000 from France; in 1421, thousands were expelled from Austria. Many of these Jews settled in East-Central Europe, especially Poland. [340]
[5] [9] Israeli immigrants were first recorded in Australia in 1954. [9] Many Israeli Australians moved from Europe to Australia after the Second World War, then returned to Israel to start families before immigrating to Australia. [5] 67.7% of Israel-born Australians arrived before 2007, compared to the total oversea-born population of 61.8%.
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