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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.
Below is a list of Jewish populations in the world by country. All data below, except the last column, are from the Berman Jewish DataBank at Stanford University in the World Jewish Population (2020) report coordinated by Sergio DellaPergola at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [32]
King David Schools, Johannesburg. Kollel Bet Mordechai. Kollel Yad Shaul. Lubavitch Yeshiva Gedolah of Johannesburg. Ohr Somayach, South Africa. Oxford Shul. Rabbinical College of Pretoria. Torah Academy School, Johannesburg. United Herzlia Schools.
During The Holocaust many Jews fled Germany to other countries for refuge, and the majority of the remaining population were killed. The following is a list of some famous Jews (by religion or descent) from Germany proper.
The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, [ 2][ 3] and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages ( circa 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The community survived under Charlemagne, but suffered during the Crusades.
List of shtetls. List of. shtetls. See also: List of villages and towns depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust. This list of shtetls and shtots (eastern European towns and cities with significant pre- Holocaust Jewish populations) is organized by country. Some villages that are listed at Yad Vashem have not been included here.
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]
After it was over 318 houses, 11 synagogues, and 150 Jews were dead. [174] 1691 219 people are convicted of being Jewish in Palma, Majorca. 37 of them are burned to death. Among those martyred is Raphael and his sister Catalina Benito, who although declaring she wanted to live, jumped right into the flames rather than to be baptized.