The estimated population of Jews throughout the world totaled 13,121,000 at the end of 1963, with the Jewish communities in the United States, the Soviet Union and Israel accounting for 75 percent of the total, according to figures in the 1964 American Jewish Year Book, published jointly here today by the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Publication Society.
The Jewish community in the United States, according to the Yearbook, is estimated at 5,600,000, nearly half of them living in New York State with 2,381,000 in the Greater New York City area. The second largest Jewish community in the world remained that in the Soviet Union, which was estimated to total 2,420,000, while 320,000 other Jews lived in the Soviet bloc countries. Israel’s Jewish population ranked third with 2,143,000.
Only four other countries had Jewish populations of more than 200,000; They are France with 500,000; Great Britain, 450,000; Argentina, 450,000; and Canada, 254,000. Other large concentrations of Jews included Brazil, 130,000; South Africa, 116,000; Morocco,100,000; Iran, 80,000; and Australia, 67,000.
In an article in the Yearbook on “Jewish College Students in the United States, “Alfred Jospe, director of program and resources of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations, reported that in proportion to their numbers, almost three times as many Jews in the United States go to college as do college-age men and women in the population generally. The article noted that 80 per cent of Jewish men and women of college age attend schools of higher learning, while the figure for the general population is 27 percent.
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