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As of 2013:
Israel.......... 6,042,000 America....... 5,425,000 France......... 480,000 Canada........ 375,000 United Kingdom 291,000 Russia........ 194,000 Argentina.... 182,300 Germany......119,000 Australia...... 107,500 Brazil........... 95,300 South Africa.. 70,800 Ukraine......... 67,000 Hungary........ 48,600 Mexico.......... 39,400 Belgium........ 30,300 Holland......... 30,000 Italy.............. 28,400 Chile............. 20,500 Other countries, combined: 250,200
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∙ 10y ago
Jews are not an ethnic group but a religious group. However, Jewish people can belong to various ethnic backgrounds, including Ashkenazi (European), Sephardic (Middle Eastern), Mizrahi (North African), and others.
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∙ 11y agoJudaism is defined as both a religion and an ethnicity. It's an ethnicity because Jews are descended from the Mediterranean stock of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their wives: Jews are related to each other (as has been shown by DNA analyses of far-flung Jewish communities). And it's a religion, because Judaism is defined as the religion of Moses; the religion of the Torah, which includes people born Jewish as well as converts.
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∙ 12y agoRecent DNA comparisons have shown that the Jews are all related to each other (and thus debunking the "Khazar" canard), and that the Jews indeed originated in the Middle East. This comes as no surprise, since we have an unbroken chain of tradition to that effect, including many names and dates all the way back. More recently, the majority of Jews were and still are Ashkenazim; meaning those that were in Europe. The less numerous group is the Sephardim, who were in the Near East, North Africa, and Western Asia.
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What ethnicity is the last name Michota?
The last name Michota is of Slovak origin. It is a fairly common surname in Slovakia and is likely to have Slovak roots.
What ethniticity is the last name Right?
The last name Right does not have a specific ethnicity associated with it. Surnames are often derived from various sources such as occupation, location, or characteristics, rather than a particular ethnicity.
What is ethnicity definition?
Ethnicity refers to a group of people who share a common cultural identity, such as language, religion, ancestry, or customs. It is often distinguished from race, which is based on physical characteristics. Ethnicity can play a significant role in shaping an individual's sense of belonging and identity.
What race is Jew?
Answer 1The "Jewish Race" doesn't exist. There are 2 types of Jews; those who are Jewish by descent (a trait which is followed through the mother's side of the family) who may or may not practice Judaism; and practicing Jews, who observe the laws given by God to Moses (the 10 commandments) and the other 210+ laws delineated in Leviticus. Some Jews are more observant than others.Judaism is a religion, a history, a culture, a tradition, a body of ethics, and an ethnicity. It is not a race. Jews are members of the human race, much like many other people.Answer 2Quote, from a dictionary: "Race is a classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by heritable phenotypic characteristics, geographic ancestry, physical appearance, ethnicity." Based on all of those delineations except appearance, it would be possible to call the Jews a race. Recent DNA analyses has shown that Jews are a Middle Eastern people and share certain genetic markers.Answer 3The Jewish "race" is Caucasian (there are only 4 races; Caucasian, Hispanic, African-American, Asian and, to a lesser extent, occasionally Native- American).Answer 4They are an ethno-religious group, meaning that the Jewish people are a well-recognized ethnicity sharing distinctive physical characteristics as well as a similar genetic make-up and cultural background. The Jews as we know today are descendants of the Ancient Israelites.Answer 5Answer 3 is a couple of thousand years behind the times. It deals with the first type of Jews that were clearly described in the first line of the first answer up above: " ... those who are Jewish by descent (a trait which is followed through the mother's side of the family) who may or may not practice Judaism ... ". It completely ignores those who are "Jews by choice", i.e. converts. Though Judaism does not seek or encourage converts, and indeed discourages them, they are fully welcome if they're sincere and determined and complete the appropriate education and procedure. Note that the convert's 'race' is never an issue. After that, the convert's descendants are as Jewish as the descendants of any Jew-by- descent, and this line of Jews can fall into any 'race'.One other remark on the Answer 3 above: In enumerating the '4 races', Answer 3 lists "African-American", and this makes me wonder which race would include all the Africans who have never been to America ?In any event, Answer 3 would seem to imply that there are no African Jews, whether American or otherwise. But I just met one this morning in my synagogue, with his wife and their son. I went to greet him, but had to wait a while, as he was involved in a long discussion of Jewish laws with our Rabbi. There were a lot of other people there who would have looked askance on the matter if Answer 3 had said that our new member is the wrong race to be Jewish.Now that you mention it . . . I'm reminded that business has taken me to inconvenient places at inconvenient times, and I have also participated in holiday services at synagogues filled with Hispanic Jews in Caracas, and with Asian Jews in Harbin and Hong Kong.I'd think some of them would also have looked askance at such a suggestion.Answer 6The word "race" is not normally applied to Jews, since it is usually used concerning large groups of mankind. The Jews are, however, recognized as an ethnicity, since they are Middle Eastern in origin and are inter-related, as has been shown through DNA analysis of Jewish groups worldwide. There has been an influx of converts over the generations, yet this Jewish ethnicity is still clearly detectable.Jews are not Caucasians in origin. According to Jewish tradition, there are three races (Genesis ch.10): Japheth (Indo-European), Hamitic (African and others), and Semitic (Arabs, Jews, Assyrians, Elamites, Arameans and some others).
What is Aladdin's ethnicity?
Aladdin is Arabic, because his story takes place in Saudi Arabia.
Is jimmy wales a Jews?
Only by ethnicity.
What ethnicity is the Koch Brothers?
The brothers are Jews! That is a fact.
What ethnicity is Hebrew?
"Hebrew" is not a race, but a language that is a "cousin" of Aramaic, and can be traced to Old Canaanite.
Were the two men on the cross with Jesus Jews?
There is no indication of their ethnicity.
What is the largest ethnic group in Israel?
Jews (75%).See:Israelis by ethnicity
What religion ethnicity did German Nazis send to death camps?
Jews.
What religious ethnicity did German Nazis send to death camps?
European Jews
Which religious ethnicity did German Nazis send death camp?
European Jews
What will be the opposite gender of Jew?
Jews come in all genders, just like non-Jews do. Gender has nothing to do with ethnicity or religion.
Which religious ethnicity did German Nazis send to death camps?
European Jews
What are Jews made up of?
Jews are composed of people of a variety of different races (physically) but are of one historical ethnicity and are of a unified historical character.
Are semetics Jews?
In ethnicity yes. But other ethnic religions that are Semetic. This includes Islam too.
