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The State of New York has 1,657,000 Jews, which makes us about 9.1% of the New York State population of 19 million.

At the beginning of the 20th century, these newly-arrived Jews lived primarily in urban immigrant neighborhoods, and built support networks consisting of many small synagogues and Landsmannschaften (associations of Jews from the same town or village). Jewish American writers of the time urged assimilation and integration with the wider American culture, and Jews quickly became part of American life. Five hundred thousand American Jews (or half of all Jewish males between 18 and 50) fought in World War II, and after the war Jewish families joined the new trend of suburbanization. There, Jews became increasingly assimilated as rising intermarriage rates with non-Jews combined with a trend towards secularization. At the same time, new centers of Jewish communities formed, as Jewish school enrollment more than doubled between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, while synagogue affiliation jumped from 20% in 1930 to 60% in 1960.

Population

Jewish community estimates place the number of American Jews to be near 5.2 million. Jews in the U.S. settled largely in and near the major cities, first in the Northeast and Midwest but in recent decades increasingly in the South and West. In descending order, the metropolitan areas with the highest Jewish populations are New York City (1,750,000), Miami (535,000), Los Angeles (490,000), Philadelphia (285,000), Chicago (265,000), San Francisco (210,000), Boston (208,000), and Baltimore-Washington (165,000). New York is the second largest Jewish population center in the world, after Tel Aviv in Israel. [2]. Several other major cities have large Jewish populations per capita, like Cleveland, Baltimore, and St. Louis. Also, some areas of the Sunbelt outside of Florida and California (in which both states have always had significant Jewish communities) that have seen a large general population growth have also seen both the size and proportion of their Jewish population grow significantly. Examples of this are Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Charlotte, and especially Atlanta and Las Vegas. In many metropolitan areas, the majority of Jewish families live in suburban communities.

2007-01-03 02:37:59 · answer #1 · answered by Sabine 6 · 1 0

There are more people of color in New York City than whites (including Jews). But the whites own the power.

2007-01-01 02:45:00 · answer #2 · answered by Reba K 6 · 0 1

Why does it matter to you?
It is 2007 and everyone on the planet is a human being.
Embrace your humanity and love your fellow man.

2007-01-01 03:02:29 · answer #3 · answered by Akkita 6 · 1 0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_york_new_york#Demographics

2007-01-01 02:43:05 · answer #4 · answered by Blowupman 2 · 0 0

prolly a HUGE amount.

2007-01-01 02:42:24 · answer #5 · answered by MadHatter 2 · 0 0

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