Paris is the world’s seventh Jewish city, an estimate by A. Menes, Jewish historian and sociologist, indicated.
The French capital has a Jewish population of between 170,000 and 190,000, Mr. Menes calculated, in an article in the May issue of the Jewish Scientific Institute’s monthly magazine, the Yivo Bletter. He put the entire Jewish population of France at between 260,000 and 280,000.
This would place Paris next in rank after New York, Warsaw, Chicago, Philadelphia, Budapest and Vienna as a Jewish population center. The number includes 50,000 to 60,000 French Jews, 90,000 to 100,000 from Eastern Europe, 15,000 to 20,000 Sephardic Jews and 15,000 from Middle and Western European countries.
In the past twelve years. 35,000 Jews have been naturalized in France.
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