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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 ...
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.
The vast majority of Jews in Oceania (estimation 120,000) live in Australia, with a population of about 7,000 in New Zealand (6867, [1] according to the 2013 NZ Census). Most are Ashkenazi Jews , with many being survivors of the Holocaust arriving during and after World War II .
Jews have been a part of the Australian parliament since federation. [citation needed] In 2016 a record number of 6 MPs identified as Jewish. [1]When Kerryn Phelps won the 2018 Wentworth by-election the number rose to 7, but subsequently dropped back to 6 following the 2019 Australian federal election.
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An estimated 110,000 Jews currently live in Australia, [69] the majority being Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern European descent, with many being refugees and Holocaust survivors who arrived during and after World War II. The Jewish population has increased slightly in recent times [70] due to immigration from South Africa and the former Soviet Union.
Jewish people have lived in Australia from the beginning of European settlement but the Jewish population only grew significantly after World War II, largely due to migration from Europe. The 2006 Australian Census put the Jewish population of Melbourne ( Victoria's capital) at 40,547, with a national Jewish population of 88,834. [ 2 ]
St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne designed by Joseph Plottel. This list of synagogues and Jewish congregations in Australia and New Zealand represents those known to have existed at some time in the history of Jewish communities in either the colonial or national periods of either countries.