Index| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judaism | Canada | 360,000 | - | - | - | 1995 | *LINK* web site: "United Church of Canada Inter-Faith Dialogue "; web page: "Judaism " (viewed 19 Feb. 1999), written by Fritz B. Voll, "Updated: Tue Jun 9 23:39:36 1998 " | "According to 1995 figures there are close to 14 million Jews in the world, of which 5.8 million live in the United States, 4.4 million in Israel. Canada has the sixth largest population of Jews with 360,000, after France, Russia, and Ukraine. " |
| Judaism | Canada | 350,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year; pg. 781-783. | Table: "Religion ": Divided by nations, with 2 columns: "Religious affiliation " & "1996 pop. " [of that religion]. Based on best avail. figures, whether census data, membership figures or estimates by analysts, as % of est. 1996 midyear pop. |
| Judaism | Canada | 350,000 | - | - | - | 1997 | Ash, Russell. The Top 10 of Everything, DK Publishing, Inc.: New York (1997); pg. 160-161. | List: "Top 10 Largest Jewish Populations in the World "; (Rank: 5) |
| Judaism | Canada | 342,096 | - | - | - | 1998 | Ash, Russell. The Top 10 of Everything 1999. New York: DK Publishing (1998); pg. 77. | Table: "Top 10 Largest Jewish Populations in the World "; Rank: #7 |
| Judaism | Canada | 360,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
| Judaism | Canada | - | 1.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Judaism | Chile | 30,000 | - | - | - | 1977 | Bermant, Chaim. The Jews. New York: NY Times Books (1977); pg. 239. | "...Brazilian community with its 175,000 Jews... " |
| Judaism | Chile | 15,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
| Judaism | China | 11,690 | - | - | - | 1500 C.E. | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 15). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970); pg. 2080. | "A Jewish place of worship or temple was built in Kaifeng in 1163 AD. An inscription, written at the time, tells us that there were 70 Jewish clans in China. At the beginning of the 17th century, when Portuguese Jesuit missionaries discovered that Jews were living in China, there were 10 to 12 clans or between one and two thousand individuals... " |
| Judaism | China | - | - | - | - | 1500 C.E. | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 15). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970); pg. 2080. | "Oriental Jewish Communities. The first Jewish settlers in China were probably silk merchants for the Roman Empire who came by the caravan route over Asia in the first Millennium AD. In the 16th century the Turks blocked the overland trade routes, and the Jews living in the middle of China were isolated, both from the West and from other Jewish communities. Jews from India, who probably traveled to China by sea in the 16th and later centuries, established communities on the Chinese coastline, but we are concerned here with the older and more isolated community in central China which was concentrated in Kaifeng, the capital of the Chinese Empire during the Sung Dynasty (960-1280). " |
| Judaism | China | 2,000 | - | - | - | 1600 | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 15). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970); pg. 2080. | "At the beginning of the 17th century, when Portuguese Jesuit missionaries discovered that Jews were living in China, there were 10 to 12 clans or between one and two thousand individuals... " |
| Judaism | China | 300 | - | - | - | 1850 | Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 15). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970); pg. 2080. | "...by the middle of the 19th century there were only two or three hundred Jews left in China. " |
| Judaism | China | 300 | - | - | - | 1866 | Ferm, Vergilius (ed). An Encyclopedia of Religion; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (1976; 1st ed. pub. 1945 by Philosophical Library); pg. 146. | "Originally there were seventy families. By 1866, only seven were left, numbering about 300 people. The number has... grown since then... They neither observe sabbath nor practice circumcision. They have been largely assimilated... " |
| Judaism | China | - | 0.00% | - | - | 1993 | Kertzer, Morris N. & Lawrence A. Hoffman. What is a Jew (New & Completely Revised Ed.); New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1993); pg. 8. | "Though most Jews are of the white or Caucasian race, there are black African Jews from Ethiopia, and African-American Jews in the U.S.; until recently, there were Chinese Jews in Kai-Fung-Fu and there are still Jewish communities in various places on the subcontinent of India. " |
| Judaism | China | 300 | - | - | - | 1993 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: 9/24/93 issue of GLOBAL PRAYER DIGEST); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | Today only about 300 of their descendants call themselves Jews, not a group large enough to be included as one of the 55 minority groups in China. |
| Judaism | China: Kaifeng | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1163 C.E. | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982); pg. 171. | "The earliest positive date for Jews in Kaifeng is the year 1163, the date given by one inscription for the founding of their synagogue. But it is reasonable to assume they had already lived there for several decades. " |
| Judaism | China: Kaifeng | 1,000 | - | - | - | 1605 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982); pg. 169. | "By Ricci's days Jews had already lived in China for hundreds of years. They formed a thriving community of nearly one thousand in their own quarter of Kaifeng. " |
| Judaism | China: Kaifeng | - | - | - | - | 1642 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982); pg. 179. | "At the height of Jewish prosperity, in 1642, the Yellow river swept through Kaifeng in one of its worst floods ever. The synagogue was swept away and with it most of the Torah scrolls. Many Jews were among the hundreds of thousands who died in the catastrophe. Only a few hundred Jewish families survived. " |
| Judaism | China: Kaifeng | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1850 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982); pg. 187-188. | "Miraculously, Finn's letter was not only received by answered. A Chinese Jew named Chao Nien-tsu sent a reply to the consul in 1850... Chao painted a gloomy picture of Jewish life in Kaifeng, on the verge of disappearing entirely. He described himself as one of the few Jews who still cared about their religion... the synagogue was crumbling. " |
| Judaism | China: Kaifeng | 400 | - | - | - | 1851 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982); pg. 187-188. | "The Chinese delegates made a second trip in 1851. They spent two weeks in Kaifeng, long enough to estimate the Jewish population at three to four hundred. This time they returned with six Torah scrolls and assorted other manuscripts, including the memorial book. They also brought back two Jews in person. Both had been circumcised,... " |
| Judaism | China: Kaifeng | 0 | - | - | - | 1932 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982); pg. 191. | "In a series of meetings in 1919 [Bishop William White, head of the Canadian Anglican Mission in Kaifeng] tried to reorganize the Jewish community, with no success. He called his last meeting in 1932 to introduce them to a visiting American Jew [who] wrote: 'They know they are Jews, but know nothing of Judaism. They realize they are Chinese, completely assimilated...' " |
| Judaism | China: Kaifeng | 0 | - | - | - | 1980 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982); pg. 191. | "The most recent visitor was a UPI reporter in early 1980. She found a few dozen people who knew they were descended from Jews. " |
| Judaism | China: Kaifeng | 0 | - | - | - | 1982 | Ross, Dan. Acts of Faith: A Journey to the Fringes of Jewish Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982); pg. 170. | "...China's Jews... prospered for another century or so [after 1605] but began losing their grip on Judaism... last rabbi died [c. 1805]; the synagogue was torn down [c. 1860]. By then the Jews could no longer read Hebrew or remember any but a few oddly misshapen rituals. A few of them converted to Islam or other religions, but most simply blended into their Chinese surroundings... To this day there are a few hundred residents of Kaifeng who can say, 'I am descended from Jews.' But that is exactly what they are. It has been a long time since anyone in Kaifeng has been able to say, 'I am a Jew.' " |
| Judaism | Colombia | 5,650 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
| Judaism | Colorado | - | 1.40% | - | - | 1983 | *LINK* web page: "A REVIEW OF DATA ON JEWISH-AMERICANS " (1998) [Orig. source: Feldstein, Donald. The American Jewish Community in the 21st Century - A Projection. New York, NY: American Jewish Congress (March 1984)] | "TABLE 1: STATES WITH JEWISH POPULATIONS OF ONE PERCENT OR GREATER, 1983 " |
| Judaism | Colorado | 48,550 | 1.47% | 26 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. [Listed as 'Jewish Estimate.'] |
| Judaism | Colorado | - | 1.80% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Judaism | Colorado | 52,000 | 1.40% | - | - | 1995 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: American Jewish Year Book. New York, NY: American Jewish Committee (1995)]; pg. 70. | Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990, and Jewish Population, 1995 - States "; "The Jewish population includes Jews who define themselves as Jewish by religion as well as those who define themselves as Jewish in cultural terms. Data... based primarily on a compilation of individual estimates made by local Jewish federations. " |
| Judaism | Colorado | - | 1.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: "Jewish " [The study specifically asked follow up questions of self-identified Jews to separate non-religious ethnic-only Jews from religious Jews and Jews who self-identify with a religion other than Judaism. Statistic here refers to religious Jews only.] |
| Judaism | Commonwealth of Independent States | - | 1.00% | - | - | 1992 | Goring, Rosemary (ed). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs & Religions (Larousse: 1994); pg. 581-584. | Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% " |
| Judaism | Connecticut | - | 3.40% | - | - | 1983 | *LINK* web page: "A REVIEW OF DATA ON JEWISH-AMERICANS " (1998) [Orig. source: Feldstein, Donald. The American Jewish Community in the 21st Century - A Projection. New York, NY: American Jewish Congress (March 1984)] | "TABLE 1: STATES WITH JEWISH POPULATIONS OF ONE PERCENT OR GREATER, 1983 " |
| Judaism | Connecticut | 115,460 | 3.51% | 106 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. [Listed as 'Jewish Estimate.'] |
| Judaism | Connecticut | - | 2.40% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Judaism | Connecticut | 97,000 | 3.00% | - | - | 1995 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: American Jewish Year Book. New York, NY: American Jewish Committee (1995)]; pg. 70. | Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990, and Jewish Population, 1995 - States "; "The Jewish population includes Jews who define themselves as Jewish by religion as well as those who define themselves as Jewish in cultural terms. Data... based primarily on a compilation of individual estimates made by local Jewish federations. " |
| Judaism | Connecticut | - | 1.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: "Jewish " [The study specifically asked follow up questions of self-identified Jews to separate non-religious ethnic-only Jews from religious Jews and Jews who self-identify with a religion other than Judaism. Statistic here refers to religious Jews only.] |
| Judaism | Costa Rica | 2,500 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
| Judaism | Croatia | 2,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
| Judaism | Cuba | 26,000 | - | 5 units |
- | 1959 | Baker, Christopher P. Cuba Handbook. Chico, California: Moon Publications, Inc. (1997); pg. 105. | "Cuba's Jewish community once thrived. Today it is thought to number only about 1,300, about five percent of its prerevolutionary size, when Havana's Jewish community supported five synagogues, several schools and a college. " |
| Judaism | Cuba | 2,000 | - | - | - | 1961 | Baker, Christopher P. Cuba Handbook. Chico, California: Moon Publications, Inc. (1997); pg. 105. | "Jews became part of the Cuban diaspora, and only perhaps as many as 2,000 remained [after the Communist revolution]... " |
| Judaism | Cuba | 1,300 | - | - | - | 1997 | Baker, Christopher P. Cuba Handbook. Chico, California: Moon Publications, Inc. (1997); pg. 105. | "Cuba's Jewish community once thrived. Today it is thought to number only about 1,300, about five percent of its prerevolutionary size... " |
| Judaism | Cuba | 1,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
| Judaism | Czech Republic | 6,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
| Judaism | Czechoslovakia | 360,000 | 2.50% | - | - | 1937 | Gilbert, Martin (ed.) The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1990); pg. 161. | Map: "European Jewry on the Eve of the Holocaust 1937-41 "; "Figures show Jewish populations in 1937 and percentage of total population. " |
| Judaism | Delaware | 9,500 | 1.43% | 4 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. [Listed as 'Jewish Estimate.'] |
| Judaism | Delaware | - | 1.40% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Judaism | Delaware | 9,000 | 1.30% | - | - | 1995 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: American Jewish Year Book. New York, NY: American Jewish Committee (1995)]; pg. 70. | Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990, and Jewish Population, 1995 - States "; "The Jewish population includes Jews who define themselves as Jewish by religion as well as those who define themselves as Jewish in cultural terms. Data... based primarily on a compilation of individual estimates made by local Jewish federations. " |
| Judaism | Delaware | - | 1.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: "Jewish " [The study specifically asked follow up questions of self-identified Jews to separate non-religious ethnic-only Jews from religious Jews and Jews who self-identify with a religion other than Judaism. Statistic here refers to religious Jews only.] |
| Judaism | Denmark | 7,000 | 0.17% | - | - | 1937 | Gilbert, Martin (ed.) The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1990); pg. 161. | Map: "European Jewry on the Eve of the Holocaust 1937-41 "; "Figures show Jewish populations in 1937 and percentage of total population. " |
| Judaism | Denmark | - | 0.10% | - | - | 1992 | Wolff, Michael. Where We Stand: Can America Make it in the Global Race for Wealth, Health, and Happiness? Bantam Books: New York (1992); pg. 204-205. | Chart |
| Judaism | Denmark | 5,000 | 0.10% | - | - | 1994 | *LINK* Rothstein, Mikael. "Patterns of Diffusion and Religious Globalization: An Empirical Survey of New Religious Movements " in Temenos 32 (1996), 195-220. (Viewed online, Temenos web site, 30 Jan. 1999); [Orig. source: "Jensen, Tim (ed.) 1994 Religionsguiden - en vejviser til flygtninges og indvandreres religioner og trossamfund i Danmark. Dansk Flygtningehjælp. Denmark. "] | "Denmark is a small country with a population of just over 5 million... There are approximately 25,000 Catholics, 19,000 Jehovah's Witnesses, 5,000 Jews, a similar number of Mormons and even smaller groups of Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists of various denominations. " |
| Judaism | Denmark | 8,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
| Judaism | Dominican Republic | 250 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
| Judaism | Ecuador | 1,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
| Judaism | Egypt | 2,500,000 | - | - | - | -1500 B.C.E. | Gilbert, Martin (ed.) The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1990); pg. 14. | "Whether the Hebrews were expelled from Egypt or whether they left of their own accord is a matter for conjecture. The exodus a major biblical event for which no definitive corroboration has been found in other texts or archaeological remains. Certainly their numbers could not have been as great as the 600,000 Hebrews of fighting age claimed by the Bible. If this were true, the total Hebrew population would have numbered as many as 2.5 million -- greater than the population of Egypt as a whole. The one plausible explanation for the lack of documentation about the exodus is that the numbers involved were far to small and the Hebrews themselves too insignificant to warrant mention in the official records... " |
| Judaism | Egypt | 1,000,000 | 10.00% | - | - | 33 C.E. | Denny, Frederick Mathewson. An Introduction to Islam; New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1985); pg. 43. | "By the time of Jesus there was a large Jewish community in Egypt, particularly in Alexandria. In Roman times, the Jewish population of Egypt was about 10% of the entire population, or somewhere around a million, according to Philo... " |
| Judaism | Egypt | 75,000 | - | - | - | 1948 | Gilbert, Martin (ed.) The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1990); pg. 146. | Map: "The Jews of Egypt "; "Jewish Population: 1948 - 75,000; 1974 - 350 " |
| Judaism | Egypt | 80,000 | - | - | - | 1949 | Nyrop, Richard F., et al. Area Handbook for Egypt (3rd Ed.). Washington, D.C.: Foreign Area Studies of The American University (1976; research completed 1975); pg. 127. | "...approximately 80,000 Jews resided in Egypt in 1949... " |
| Judaism | Egypt | 80,000 | - | - | - | 1956 | Perl, Lila. Egypt, Rebirth on the Nile. New York: William Morrow and Company (1977); pg. 148. | "...up to the time of the 1948 war against Israel. From that period on, and especially after the 1956 Suez Canal war, Egypt's population of 80,000 Jews dwindled rapidly through emigration. " |
| Judaism | Egypt | 1,200 | - | - | - | 1969 | Nyrop, Richard F., et al. Area Handbook for Egypt (3rd Ed.). Washington, D.C.: Foreign Area Studies of The American University (1976; research completed 1975); pg. 127. | "The Jewish community declined sharply after the creation of the state of Israel. Whereas approximately 80,000 Jews resided in Egypt in 1949, by 1969 the number had dwindled to only about 1,200. Most of these lived in Cairo and its vicinity and in Alexandria. " |
| Judaism | Egypt | 350 | - | - | - | 1974 | Gilbert, Martin (ed.) The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1990); pg. 146. | Map: "The Jews of Egypt "; "Jewish Population: 1948 - 75,000; 1974 - 350 " |
| Judaism | Egypt | 1,000 | - | - | - | 1977 | Perl, Lila. Egypt, Rebirth on the Nile. New York: William Morrow and Company (1977); pg. 148. | "Today there are probably fewer than one thousand Jews in Egypt, although there are still freely functioning synagogues in Alexandria and Cairo. The historic Ben Ezrae Synagogue, located in Old Cairo, was rebuilt by the Rabbi Abraham Ben Ezra in the twelfth century A.D. It still has a nucleus of thirty to forty Jewish families that live in the neighborhood and worship there regularly... " |
| Judaism | Egypt | - | - | - | - | 1978 | Lengyel, Emil. Modern Egypt. New York: Franklin Watts (revised edition, 1978); pg. 32. | "Jews played important roles in the history of Egypt, but, due to the hostility existing between the Arab world and Israel, it has become intolerable for Jews to stay in their ancestors' land. Most have left for Israel and other countries. Only a tiny number of the once large and prosperous Jewish community has remained, mainly in Alexandria. " |
| Judaism | Egypt | 300 | - | - | - | 1990 | Gilbert, Martin (ed.) The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1990); pg. 207. | "Today there are only 300 Jews in Egypt and 400 in Iraq. " |
| Judaism | Egypt: Cairo | - | - | 24 units |
- | 1967 | Perl, Lila. Egypt, Rebirth on the Nile. New York: William Morrow and Company (1977); pg. 148. | "Yet even in 1967, just before the Six Day War, there were over two dozen synagogues in Cairo with active congregations. " |
| Judaism | El Salvador | 120 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Jewish Communities of the World web site (1998) | Table: World Jewry. "collected our data from demographic and other academic studies, community reports, and up-dates in the general media... consulted with experts to verify findings before reaching our assessments and estimates. " |
