Jew

Jew

יְהוּדִים‬ (Yehudim)
The Star of David is a common symbol of the Jewish people.
Total population
14.6–17.8 million Enlarged population (includes full or partial Jewish ancestry): 20.7 million[1] (2018, est.)
Regions with significant populations
Israel (incl. occupied territories)	6,558,000–6,958,000[1]
United States	5,700,000–10,000,000[1]
France	453,000–600,000[1]
Canada	391,000–550,000[1]
United Kingdom	290,000–370,000[1]
Argentina	180,000–330,000[1]
Russia	172,000–440,000[1]
Germany	116,000–225,000[1]
Australia	113,000–140,000[1]
Brazil	93,000–150,000[1]
South Africa	69,000–80,000[1]
Ukraine	50,000–140,000[1]
Hungary	47,000–100,000[1]
Mexico	40,000–50,000[1]
Netherlands	30,000–52,000[1]
Belgium	29,000–40,000[1]
Italy	28,000–41,000[1]
Switzerland	19,000–25,000[1]
Chile	18,000–26,000[1]
Uruguay	17,000–25,000[1]
Turkey	15,000–21,000[1]
Sweden	15,000–25,000[1]
Languages
Predominantly spoken:[2] Modern Hebrew English Russian French Spanish Historical: Yiddish Ladino Judeo-Arabic others Sacred: Biblical Hebrew Biblical Aramaic Talmudic Aramaic
Religion
Judaism

The Jews or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group whose ethnoreligion^[3] is Judaism.^[4] A Jew is someone who is of Jewish heritage or who has converted to the Jewish religion.^[4] Jewish people typically consider themselves not only as adherents of a religion, therefore a Jew is not only one that practices the religion of Judaism, but it is also one who is of Jewish ethnic heritage. Jews originated as an ethnoreligious group in the Middle East.^[4]

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22} Dashefsky, Arnold; Della Pergola, Sergio; Sheskin, Ira, eds. (2018). World Jewish Population (PDF) (Report). Berman Jewish DataBank. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
2. ↑ "Links". Beth Hatefutsoth. Archived from the original on 26 March 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
3. ↑ "Ethical religion | philosophical classification". Britannica. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2}
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