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Glasgow city itself has 897 Jews (15% of the Jewish population) living there, whilst Edinburgh has 855 (also 15%). The area with the least Jewish people was the Outer Hebrides , which reported just 3 Jews (0.05%) living there.
Therefore, the following list of cities ranked by Jewish population is not complete. In particular, it excludes many Jewish-majority cities in Israel. Many of the U.S. cities have their data sourced from the Jewish Data Bank, which records population statistics for service areas that encompass many counties in a metropolitan area. [6]
The following table shows the ethnic group of respondents in the previous four censuses in Glasgow alongside two estimates. A Home Office report officially estimated that the 'coloured' population of Glasgow in 1958 was likely around 3,000 to 5,000, the majority being Asian (2,000 Pakistanis and 2,000 Indians).
The Jewish population emigrated to countries such as Poland which protected them by law. A small English community persisted in hiding despite the expulsion. Jews were not banned from Scotland, which was an independent kingdom until 1707; however, there is no record of a Jewish presence in Scotland before the 18th century.
Glasgow has seven synagogues, including the Romanesque-revival Garnethill Synagogue in the city centre. Glasgow currently has the seventh largest Jewish population in the United Kingdom after London, Manchester, Leeds, Gateshead, Brighton and Bournemouth but once had a Jewish population second only to London, estimated at 20,000 in the Gorbals ...
While the Jewish population currently makes up an estimated 1.9 percent of the U.S. population, it is estimated to make up 1.4 percent of the population in 2050. Evidently, ...
Simon Cowell, presenter of The X Factor [10] (Jewish father, Scottish mother) David Duchovny , American actor, X-Files [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] (Jewish father, Scottish mother) Isla Fisher , Australian actress, born to Scottish parents, converted to Judaism upon marriage to Sacha Baron Cohen ; [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] has described herself as "quite ...
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