answersLogoWhite

0

What proportion of Jews are Kurds?

User Avatar

Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

About 1.1% of world Jewry is from Kurdistan. In Israel (where most of them live), about 2.35 percent of the Jewish population is immigrants from Kurdistan (and their children).

The total number of Jews who came from Kurdistan is today about 150,000.

User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

Are Kurds an ethnic or religious group?

Kurds are an ethnic group. While the majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslims, there are significant religious minorities among the Kurds such as Shiite Muslims, Jews, Christians, Baha'i, Yarsan, Yezidi and other religions.


What percentage of Kurds are Jewish in Kurdistan?

According to the World Evangelization Research Center, less than 1 percent are Christian. Statistics on minority groups throughout the region are difficult to obtain. Of the overall 35 million Kurds, there are less the 35,000 Christian Kurds, which makes Christians less than 0.1% of the Kurdish population.


What proportion of Jews killed in the Holocaust killed were religious?

10 per cent


What are the four ethnic groups of the middle east?

Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, Persians, Jews, and Turks are the ethnic groups that live in the Middle East.


Do Kurds only marry Kurds?

Yes. The Kurds are an overwhelmingly insular community.


Are the kurds in northern Iraq predominantly sunni or shia?

Yes, but there are minorities of Shiite Muslim Kurds, Yazidi Kurds, and Baha'i Kurds.


What are Turkey's ethnic groups?

The main ethnic groups in Turkey are Turks, Kurds, Arabs, and others such as Circassians, Bosniaks, and Albanians. Turks make up the majority of the population, while Kurds are the largest minority group. These ethnic groups have diverse cultures, languages, and histories.


What proportion of the German Jews were still alive in Germany at the end of the Holocaust?

About 20,000 out of 500,000 +++ or about 4%.


What kind of people were sent to treblinka?

the vast majority were Jews, a large proportion were from the Warsaw ghetto.


Are Kurds monotheists?

Most Kurds are Muslims, so yes. There are a minority of Kurds who are Yazidi or Zoroastrian which are henotheistic faiths and not strictly monotheistic. There are also Kurds who are Atheists.


Who are you if you are Jewish but do not follow Judaism?

If you consider yourself Jewish but do not follow Judaism, holding to no religion at all, then you are a "secular Jew". A significant proportion of Jews are secular Jews. Some Jews have adopted a form of Christianity and consider themselves Christian Jews or Messianic Jews.


What proportion of food can jews eat?

Torah-law prohibits us from eating beyond the point of satiety.