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Ethnic group Uruguayan Jews Judíos de Uruguay יהדות אורוגוואי Synagogue of the Sephardic Community Total population 12,000 (census) - 20,000 (estimate) Regions with significant populations Predominantly in Montevideo Punta del Este Paysandú Languages Uruguayan Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino Religion Judaism Part of a series on Jews and Judaism Etymology Who is a Jew ...
A 2008 survey by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística of Uruguay gave Catholicism as the main religion, with 45.7% of the population, 9.0% are non-Catholic Christians, 0.6% are Animists or Umbandists (an Afro-Brazilian religion) and 0.4% Jewish. 30.1% reported believing in a god, but not belonging to any religion, while 14% were Atheist or ...
The table below shows only metropolitan areas with Jewish population above 100,000 as of 2021: [ 1 ] Metropolitan area. Country. Number. % of Jews out of total population. Tel Aviv. Israel. 3,891,000. 94.8.
This can be compared with estimates of about half that number a mere 60 years earlier, though for comparison estimates of the total population of Europe show it also to have doubled between 1800 and 1900. Jewish population by country (2020)
Core Jewish population refers to those who consider themselves Jews to the exclusion of all else. Connected Jewish population includes the core Jewish population and additionally those who say they are partly Jewish or that have Jewish background from at least one Jewish parent. Enlarged Jewish population includes the Jewish connected ...
Many Jewish people came from Germany in 1939, on a ship called the "Koenigstein". During the years 1933–43, there were a population of 2,700 Jewish immigrants. In 1939, the Jewish population, mostly German and Polish Jews, were expelled by a decree of the Italian influenced government of Alberto Enriquez Gallo. The antisemitism spread in the ...
Jewish immigration to Latin America began with seven sailors arriving in Christopher Columbus' crew. The Jewish population of Latin America is today (2018) less than 300,000 — more than half of whom live in Argentina , with large communities also present in Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Uruguay and Venezuela .
The commission's statistics showed that anti-semitic acts constituted 62% of all racist acts in the country (compared to 45% in 2001 and 80% in 2000). The report documented 313 violent acts against people or property, including 38 injuries and the murder of someone with Maghrebin origins by far right skinheads .