Hebrew History by Numbers

Via Jewish Virtual Library here's world Jewish population by country. The alert reader(s) will notice out of fifteen million or so Jews, twelve million of them live in Israel and the United States. Nearly half a million are located in France a number in rapid decline. Another 900,000 thousand Jews are scattered throughout all points of the British Empire, the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa. Another 300,000 or so are in South America.

Rank	Country	Population	% of Jewry
1	Israel	6,336,400	44%
2	United States	5,700,000	39.5%
3	France	460,000	3.2%
4	Canada	388,000	2.7%
5	U.K.	290,000	2.0%
6	Argentina	180,700	1.3%
7	Russia	179,500	1.2%
8	Germany	117,000	0.8%
9	Australia	113,000	0.8%
10	Brazil	94,200	0.7%
11	Ukraine	56,000	0.4%
12	South Africa	69,500	0.5%
13	Hungary	47,600	0.3%
14	Mexico	40,000	0.3%
15	Belgium	29,500	0.2%

The reader(s) see numbers but we see history. Of about half a million in 1933 one hundred and seventeen thousand Jews still reside in Germany today. Our own Great Grandfather, Flight Lieutenant William Eisman, Luftwaffe, left Germany in 1919 for Louisiana.

In 1900 about 3,000,000 Jews lived in Russia. Today 179,000 Jews are left in Russia and 56,000 in Ukraine. Today a million Israelis hail from the former Soviet Union.  Of course those Russian and Ukrainian Jews are partially descendant from Jews kicked out of Spain and invited to Russia by the Czars.  Most of South America's Jews hail from Spain as well, though many tens of thousands are simple immigrants. In 1900 nearly nine million Jews resided in Europe. Three million alone lived in Poland. Today only 8,000 Jews live there. We know what happened to the other 3,000,000.  Of the remaining three million Jews half are still in Europe. The rest scattered, mostly to Israel and the United States.

With these numbers we can see the past. They also suggest the future.

Right now the great divide in Judaism is between Sephardi and Ashkenazim Jews. Judging by the chart, in a few centuries there will be Israeli and American Jews.

A few years ago the total world Jewish population was 15 million the same number as 1933. Of course as a percentage of humanity world Jewish population is much smaller.