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American Jews

American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.[5] 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.[6]

Total population

7,600,000[2]

300,000[3]

During the colonial era Sephardic Jews arrived via Portugal represented the bulk of America's then-small Jewish population, and 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 core American Jewish population is estimated at 7.6 million people, accounting for 2.4% of the total US population. This includes 4.9 million adults who identify their religion as Jewish, 1.2 million Jewish adults who identify with no religion, and 1.6 million Jewish children.[2] It is estimated that up to 15,000,000 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.[1]

The calculated an 'expatriate rate' of 2.9 persons per thousand, putting Israel in the mid-range of expatriate rates among the 175 OECD countries examined in 2005.[86]

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

American Jewish cuisine

Israeli Americans

Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America

List of Jewish political milestones in the United States

National Museum of American Jewish Military History

Jews in Los Angeles

Jews in Maine

Perpetual foreigner stereotype in America

Stereotypes of Jews

Farber, Roberta Rosenberg; , eds. (1999). Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader. Waltham, Ma: Brandeis University Press. ISBN 9780874518993.

Waxman, Chaim I.

Diner, Hasia R.

Sheskin, Ira M. (2000). . In McKee, Jesse O. (ed.). Ethnicity in Contemporary America: A Geographical Appraisal. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-0034-1.

"American Jews"

Sklare, Marshal, ed. (1982). . New Brunswick, NJ: Brandeis University Center for Modern Jewish Studies; Transaction Books. ISBN 0-87855-454-8.

Understanding American Jewry

Sklare, Marshal, ed. (1983). American Jews, a Reader. New Brunswick, NJ; New York: Brandeis University Center for Modern Jewish Studies; Behrman House.  0874413486.

ISBN

Sorin, Gerald (1997). Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America.

, ed. (2007). Imagining American Jewish Community. Waltham, Ma: Brandeis University Press. ISBN 978-1-58465-669-2.

Wertheimer, Jack

American Jewish Historical Society

American Jewish Archives

American Jewish Congress

American Jewish World Service

Jewish Federations of North America

My Jewish Learning: American Jewish Life

Jewish population growth in the United States – The Literary Digest (1922)

The Berman Jewish Databank @ The Jewish Federations of North America