{"id":14569,"date":"2015-02-17T19:09:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=14569"},"modified":"2015-02-17T14:06:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T12:06:34","slug":"14569","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=14569","title":{"rendered":"The continuing decline of Europe\u2019s Jewish population"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The continuing decline of Europe\u2019s Jewish population<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Michael Lipka<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Jewish<\/a>It\u2019s been seven decades since the end of the Holocaust, an event that decimated the Jewish population in Europe. In the years since then, the number of European Jews has continued to decline for a variety of reasons. And now, concerns over renewed anti-Semitism on the continent have prompted Jewish leaders to talk of a new \u201cexodus\u201d<\/span> from the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are still more than a million Jews living in Europe, according to 2010 Pew Research Center estimates<\/span>. But that number has dropped significantly over the last several decades \u2013 most dramatically in Eastern Europe and the countries that make up the former Soviet Union, according to historical research by Sergio DellaPergola<\/span> of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1939, there were 16.6 million Jews worldwide, and a majority of them \u2013 9.5 million, or 57% \u2013 lived in Europe, according to DellaPergola\u2019s estimates<\/span>. By the end of World War II, in 1945, the Jewish population of Europe had shrunk to 3.8 million, or 35% of the world\u2019s 11 million Jews. About 6 million European Jews were killed during the Holocaust, according to common estimates.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, the global Jewish population \u2013 estimated by Pew Research<\/span> at 14 million as of 2010 \u2013 has risen, but it is still smaller than it was before the Holocaust. And in the decades since 1945, the Jewish population in Europe has continued to decline. In 1960, it was about 3.2 million; by 1991, it fell to 2 million, according to DellaPergola\u2019s estimates. Now, there are about 1.4 million Jews in Europe \u2013 just 10% of the world\u2019s Jewish population, and 0.2% of Europe\u2019s total population.<\/span><\/p>\n

Measuring Jewish populations, especially in places like Europe and the United States where Jews are a small minority, is fraught with difficulty. This is due to the complexity both of measuring small populations and of Jewish identity<\/span>, which can be defined by ethnicity or religion. As a result, estimates vary, but Pew Research\u2019s recent figures are similar to those reported by DellaPergola, one of the world\u2019s leading experts on Jewish demography.<\/span><\/p>\n

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