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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 7,100,000–7,700,000[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| New York metropolitan area, New Jersey, South Florida, Philadelphia area, Greater Los Angeles, Baltimore–Washington, Greater Boston Area, Chicago, San Francisco Bay Area, Cleveland, Atlanta Area, Saint Louis Area | |
 United States | 7,500,000[1] |
 Israel | 300,000[2] |
| Languages | |
| Religion | |
| Judaism (35% Reform, 18% Conservative, 11% Orthodox, 6% others) Secular (30% atheist, agnostic, etc.)[3] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Israeli Americans | |
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American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.[4] According to a 2020 poll conducted by Pew Research, approximately two thirds of American Jews identify as Ashkenazi, 3% identify as Sephardic, and 1% identify as Mizrahi. An additional 6% identify as some combination of the three categories, and 25% do not identify as any particular category.[5]
During the colonial era, Sephardic Jews who arrived via Portugal represented the bulk of America's then-small Jewish population. While their descendants are a minority nowadays, they represent the remainder of those original American Jews along with an array of other Jewish communities, including more recent Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Beta Israel-Ethiopian Jews, various other Jewish ethnic groups, as well as a smaller number of converts to Judaism. The American Jewish community manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions, encompassing the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance.
Depending on religious definitions and varying population data, the United States has the largest or second largest Jewish community in the world, after Israel. As of 2020, the American Jewish population is estimated at 7.5 million people, accounting for 2.4% of the total US population. This includes 4.2 million adults who identify their religion as Jewish, 1.5 million Jewish adults who identify with no religion, and 1.8 million Jewish children.[1] It is estimated that up to 15 million Americans are part of the "enlarged" American Jewish population, accounting for 4.5% of the total US population, consisting of those who have at least one Jewish grandparent and would be eligible for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return.[6]
- ^ a b c Mitchell, Travis (May 11, 2021). "1. The size of the U.S. Jewish population". Pew Research Center. Retrieved June 9, 2024.
- ^ Harpaz, Yossi; Herzog, Ben (June 2018). "REPORT ON CITIZENSHIP LAW: ISRAEL" (PDF). Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies: 10. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
The number of U.S. dual citizens in Israel has been estimated at close to 300,000, while the number of French dual citizens is about 100,000.
- ^ "Israel versus the Jews". The Economist. July 7, 2017. Archived from the original on July 9, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
- ^ Sheskin, Ira M. (2000). "American Jews". In McKee, Jesse O. (ed.). Ethnicity in Contemporary America: A Geographical Appraisal. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-7425-0034-1.
[The 1990 National Jewish Population Survey] showed that only five percent of American Jews consider being Jewish solely in terms of being a member of a religious group. Thus, the vast majority of American Jews view themselves as members of an ethnic group and/or a cultural group, and/or a nationality.
- ^ Pew Research Center (May 11, 2021), Jewish Americans in 2020, archived from the original on November 26, 2022, retrieved November 13, 2023
- ^ Sheskin, Dashefsky, Ira, Arnold (December 22, 2021). American Jewish Year Book 2020 The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783030787059.
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