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2007-09-23 21:49:09 · 2 answers · asked by seafrontane 4 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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In the census of 2001 there were reported to be approximately 270,000 Jewish people living in the United Kingdom, of this number about 6,474 reported to be Indian Jews, living in England.

2007-09-24 10:30:23 · answer #1 · answered by loufedalis 7 · 0 0

Indian Jews mostly live in Israel and Bombay, India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Jews

They are also known as Desi Jews...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desi_Jews

The Jews

The first Jews arrived in England in 1070 from Rouen following the Norman Invasion. There is mention of them in the Domesday Book. They were expelled in 1290 under the edict of expulsion but a small number returned from 1656 onwards. The vast majority of today’s Jewish community, however, descend from Jews who arrived from Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.[1] It is hard to discern the number of ethnic Jews in the United Kingdom as they are classified as white on census forms. In 2001 however there were 267,373 practitioners of Judaism in the United Kingdom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_of_the_United_Kingdom

2007-09-24 04:53:35 · answer #2 · answered by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 · 0 0

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