Total population | |
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Canada 404,015 (as of 2021)[1] 1.4% of the Canadian population[2][3][4] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Ontario | 272,400 |
Quebec | 125,300 |
British Columbia | 62,120 |
Alberta | 20,000 |
Manitoba | 18,000 |
Languages | |
English · French (among Québécois) · Hebrew (as liturgical language, some as mother tongue) · Yiddish (by some as mother tongue and as part of a language revival) · and other languages like Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Polish, German, Moroccan Arabic | |
Religion | |
Judaism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Israeli Canadians |
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Canadian Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form the fourth largest Jewish community in the world, exceeded only by those in Israel, the United States and France.[1][5][6] As of 2021, Statistics Canada listed 335,295 Jews in Canada.[7][8] This total would account for approximately 1.4% of the Canadian population.
The Jewish community in Canada is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews. Other Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented and include Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and Bene Israel. A number of converts to Judaism make up the Jewish-Canadian community, which manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions and the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance. Though they are a small minority, they have had an open presence in the country since the first Jewish immigrants arrived with Governor Edward Cornwallis to establish Halifax, Nova Scotia (1749).[9]
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