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Originally Posted by Centropolis
why do the jewish populations seem so low in european cities? my knee-jerk is maybe that people don't identify as jewish as much in europe if they are non-practicing.
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The Third Reich??
Europe, especially Eastern Europe, had a gigantic Jewish population before WW2. North Africa/Middle East also had a large Jewish population, before decolonization and the rise of Islamic states.
Those that weren't killed usually ended up in Israel, the U.S., and a few other places.
I actually think those European numbers are fairly high. I had no idea there were still so many Jews in Budapest. How did that community survive? Paris, I knew, because Algerian and North African Jews mostly fled there following decolonization, but those numbers are higher than expected, IMO.
I'm also amazed/slightly suspicious of the Russia/Ukraine numbers. There are really 110,000 Jews in Kiev? There are hundreds of thousands of Ukranian Jews in the U.S. and Israel, all who came in recent decades. How many could be left?