British Jews

British Jews
Total population
United Kingdom United Kingdom: 300,000-410,000 – 0.5%[1][2]
Other estimates:
Core Jewish population: 290,000 (2018)[3]
Enlarged Jewish population (includes non-Jewish relatives of Jews): 370,000 (2018)[3]
Regions with significant populations
London, Greater Manchester, Leeds, Gateshead, Brighton, St Albans, Southend; also Hertsmere, Epping Forest and East Renfrewshire
Languages
Primarily English; also Yiddish, largely spoken by Hassidic Jews; historically Spanish and Portuguese among Sephardim; immigrant languages include or have included Hebrew, Arabic, Russian and French amongst many others
Religion
Judaism or irreligion
Related ethnic groups
Anglo-Israelis and other Jews

British Jews (often referred to collectively as British Jewry or Anglo-Jewry) are British citizens who are Jewish. The number of people who identified as Jews in the United Kingdom rose by just under 4% between 2001 and 2021.

  1. ^ https://www.jpr.org.uk/countries/how-many-jews-in-united-kingdom
  2. ^ https://eurojewcong.org/communities/united-kingdom/
  3. ^ a b DellaPergola, Sergio (2019), "World Jewish Population, 2018", in Dashefsky, Arnold; Sheskin, Ira M. (eds.), American Jewish Year Book 2018, vol. 118, Springer International Publishing, pp. 361–449, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-03907-3_8, ISBN 9783030039066, S2CID 146549764

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