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In the 16th and 17th centuries the main centers of Jewish population were in Poland and the Mediterranean countries, Spain excepted. [ 10 ] By the early 13th century, the world Jewish population had fallen to 2 million from a peak at 8 million during the 1st century, and possibly half this number, with only 250,000 of the 2 million living in ...
All data below, are from the Berman Jewish DataBank at Stanford University in the World Jewish Population (2020) report coordinated by Sergio DellaPergola at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Jewish DataBank figures are primarily based on national censuses combined with trend analysis.
Marranos: Secret Seder in Spain during the times of inquisition, an 1892 painting by Moshe Maimon. Henceforth the history of the Jews in Spain is that of the conversos, whose numbers, as has been shown, had been increased by no less than 50,000 during the period of the expulsion to a possible total of 300,000. [120]
According to the Associated Press, the global Jewish population at the outbreak of World War II in 1939 was almost exactly 16.5 million as well. After the Holocaust, the Jewish population was ...
The Jewish population of Europe in 2010 was estimated to be approximately 1.4 million (0.2% of the European population) or 10% of the world's Jewish population. [6] In the 21st century, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe, [6] [10] followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine. [10]
The following figures of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Germany) show the annihilation of the Jewish population of Europe by (pre-war) country as percentage points: [3] Country Estimated Pre-War Jewish population Estimated killed Percent killed Poland: 3,400,000: 3,000,000: 88.25% Soviet Union (excl. Baltic states) 3,000,000: 1,000,000 ...
Prior to World War II, the global Jewish population reached a peak of 16.7 million, [35] representing around 0.7% of the world's population at that time. During World War II, approximately six million Jews throughout Europe were systematically murdered by Nazi Germany in a genocide known as the Holocaust.
Alpert, Michael (2009). "Spain and the Jews in the Second World War". Jewish Historical Studies. 42: 201– 210. JSTOR 29780130. Payne, Stanley G. (2008). Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany and World War II. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300122824. Preston, Paul (2020). A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political ...