The total world Jewish population is 11,627,000, more than 5,000,000 of whom live in the United States, it is reported in the “American Jewish Year Book,” published today by the American Jewish Committee. The 554-page record of evens and trends in American and world Jewish life is the 55th annual volume of the Year Book series and will be distributed by the Jewish Publication Society.
After the United States, according to the Year Book, the countries of largest Jewish population are Soviet Russia with 2,000,000 and Israel with 1,463,000. The Israel figure represents an increase of 38,000 over last year, and is now 12 and one half percent of the world Jewish total. By contrast, Germany, which once had a Jewish population of 600,000, now has only 20,500 survivors.
The European countries with the largest Jewish populations, after the Soviet Union, are England with 450,000 and France with 275,000. In the Western Hemisphere after the United States, Argentina is second with 360,000; Canada has 220,000 and Brazil, 120,000.
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