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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]
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.
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 ...
Population distribution by country in 1939 This is a list of countries by population in 1939 (including any dependent, occupied or colonized territories for empires ), providing an approximate overview of the world population before World War II .
Jews outside Europe under Axis occupation suffered greatly during World War II. While there is academic consensus that the extermination of the non-European Jews was a long-term goal for the Nazi regime, [1] it is less clear whether there were any imminent plans or policies to that end. Although there is no unanimity among historians on this ...
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 ...
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 ...