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There are
6,588,065
Jews in the USA.
The country includes (50) states; (48) continental states, + Alaska and Hawaii, the two
newest states.
Barak Obama is the president of the United States of America .
The Jewish population is to the Northeast (43%), where proportionately more than twice
as many Jews as non-Jews (19%) reside. The region containing the fewest Jews is the
Midwest, where the proportion of Jews (13%) is almost half that of non-Jews (23%).
Jews are also proportionately underrepresented in the South (22% versus 35% for nonJews). The only region in which Jews are in equal proportion to non-Jews is the West
(22% Jews versus 23% non-Jews).
Barak Obama
Until the 1830s the Jewish community of Carlson south Carolina was the most
numerous in North America. With the large scale immigration of Jews from Germany in
the 19th century, they established themselves in many small towns and cities. A much
larger immigration of Eastern European Jews, 1880–1914, brought a large, poor,
traditional element to New York City. Refugees arrived from Europe after World War 2,
and many arrived from the Soviet Union after 1970 .
There are more than
6,588,065. Jews in the
USA.
Although Jews comprise less than three percent of the American
population, Jews have generally had a disproportionately larger
representation in American movement, and entertainment. American Jews
have suffered setbacks and have had to combat anti-Semitism during the
early 20 century. Jews have enjoyed greater acceptance in America than
in any other country and have figured prominently in American culture and
politics.
The largest wave of Jewish immigrants were eastern European Jews who came to
America between 1881 and 1924. During these years 1/3 of the Jewish population in
eastern Europe emigrated because of changing political and economic conditions.
The assassination of Russian Tsar Alexander II in 1881 ushered in a new era of
violence and anti-Jewish sentiment. Pogroms, or massacres, by the Slavs against the
Jews had occurred since the mid-7th century, but the pogroms of 1881 and 1882
were particularly numerous and intense, wiping out entire villages and killing
hundreds of Jews. Also, industrialization made it difficult for Jewish peddlers,
merchants, and artisans to sustain themselves economically. As a result, a mass
exodus of Jews from eastern Europe occurred, with approximately 90 percent bound
for America. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens and
sometimes hundreds of thousands of Jews arrived in America annually. The
immigration of some 2.4 million eastern European Jews boosted the American Jewish
population from roughly a quarter million in 1881 to 4.5 million by 1924.
The Sephardic Jews who settled in the American colonies established themselves in
cities along the eastern seaboard. From the mid-70th to the mid-80th centuries, the
largest Jewish population centers were in New York, Newport, Savannah, Philadelphia,
and Charleston, the only cities with synagogues during the period. Jewish businessmen
from these cities were supported by influential business from Sephardic communities in
London and Amsterdam.
The influx of German Jews in the 19century contributed to the westward expansion of
the Jewish population in the US. By the mid-19th century, there were approximately 160
Jewish communities from New York to California, with Jewish population centers in the
major hubs along the trade routes from east to west. Cities such as Cleveland, Chicago,
Cincinnati, and St. Louis all became centers of Jewish business, cultural, and religious
life. Jewish peddlers and retailers also followed the economic growth of the cotton
industry in the South and the discovery of gold in the West. Most of the Jewish
immigrants from this period were young, single Germans hoping to escape unfavorable
economic conditions and repressive legislation that restricted marriage. Individuals from
the same community would typically immigrate together and continue their congregation
in the New World.
The wave of eastern European Jews at the turn of the century gravitated toward big
cities in the East and Midwest. The result was that by 1920 Jews had their greatest
population centers in NY, Newark, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore,
Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit. Within these cities, eastern European Jews
established their own communities and maintained their cultural heritage and identity
much more so than nineteenth-century German Jews, who were eager to assimilate
into American culture.
Jewish settlement trends in the twentieth century have shown population decreases in
the mid west and increases in cities such as Los Angeles and Miami. During the 1930s
and 1940s, refugees from Nazi Germany predominantly settled in Manhattan's West
Side and Washington Heights as well as in Chicago and San Francisco. After World
War II the population of American Jews decreased in mid western cities such as
Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland and increased in Los Angeles, Miami, and
Washington, D.C. For each major city with a significant Jewish population, there has
been a steady postwar trend of outward movement toward the suburbs. The young and
middle-aged professionals have led this movement, while working-class, Orthodox, and
older Jews continue to inhabit the old neighborhoods closer to the city.
By the end of 1992, the largest Jewish population centers were in NY
City (1.45 million), Los Angeles (490,000), Chicago (261,000),
Philadelphia (250,000), Boston (228,000), San Francisco Bay Area
(210,000), Miami (189,000), and Washington, D.C. (165,000).
American Jews have no
tunes and songs
different to Jews all over
the world that I could
find!