(Jewish Group) How Many American Jews Are There? Depends Which Jewish Expert You Ask [View all]

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The Jewish population of the United States has reached 6.97 million, according to figures published this week in the “American Jewish Year Book 2019.”

That would make America’s Jewish population larger than Israel’s Jewish population, estimated in the same publication at 6.66 million. But is it really?

That depends whose figures you go by. The official estimate is provided by “AJYB” editors Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky, who also co-authored the chapter dedicated to the U.S. Jewish population. The professors say their figure is consistent with the estimate of 6.7 million that came out of the first-ever Pew Research Center survey of American Jews, conducted in 2013.

Both surveys include an estimated 1 million Americans who define themselves as “partly Jewish” – meaning that being Jewish is not their only identity.

However, according to Prof. Emeritus Sergio DellaPergola, considered a leading authority on world Jewish demography, there are only 5.7 million American Jews.

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