American Jewish Year Book Lists World Jewish
Population as 14,370,650, With 6,115,000 in U.S.
The world Jewish popula-
tion is estimated at 14,370,-
650, according to the Ameri-
can Jewish Year Book,
whose 1973 edition has just
been published. There are
approximately 6,115,000 Jews
in the United States, more
than in any other country.
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These estimates were com-
piled by Leon Shapiro, as-
sociate professor of Russian
and Soviet Jewish history at
Rutgers University, who com-
piled the overseas demo-
graphic data, and Alvin
Chenkin, supervisor, statis-
tics unit, Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare
Funds, who assembled the
figures on the U. S.
After the United States,
countries with the largest
Jewish populations _ are So-
viet Union, 2,648,000; Israel,
2,723,000; France, 550,000;
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Great
Argentina, 500,000;
Britain, 410,000; and Canada,
305,000.
Fifty-one per cent of world
Jewry is located in North,
Central and South America,
28 per cent in Europe, 19 per
cent in Asia, 1.5 per cent in
Africa, and 0.5 per cent in
Australia and New Zealand.
In the United States, the
Jewish proportion of the total
resident population remains
at 2.94 per cent.
Among the Jewish popula-
tion figures for U. S. cities
listed in the Year Book's
tables are: Los Angeles,
535,000; San Francisco,
75,000; Washington. 112,500;
Miami, 200,000; Chicago,
269,000; Baltimore, 100,000;
Montgomery County (Md.),
56,500; Boston, 180,000; De-
troit, 80,000; St. Louis, 60,000:
Bergen County (N. J.),
100,000; Essex County (N.J.),
90,000; Greater New York,
2,381,000; Cleveland, 80,000;
and Philadelphia, 325,000.
In Europe, according to
Prof. Shapiro, there are 4,-
055,095 Jews. Of these, 2,648,-
000 are in the Soviet Union.
Figures for other European
countries include: Austria,
9,400; Belgium, 40,500; Bul-
garia, 7,000; Czechoslovakia,
14,000; Denmark, 6,000;
France, 550,000; Germany,
32,000; Great Britain, 410,000;
Berrigan Assails Critics as He -
Refuses Gandhi Peace Award
NEW YORK (JTA) - Fa-
ther Daniel Berrigan has ac-
cused Catholic, Protestant
and Jewish critics of his an-
ti-Israel views of represent-
ing "armies of orthodoxy"
whose unquestioning support
of Israel "is undoubtedly
idolatrous."
The controversial antiwar
priest made those remarks in
a letter refusing the Gandhi
Peace Prize, which the Con-
necticut-based organization,
Promoting Enduring Peace,
was to present to him next
Wednesday.
The letter was addressed
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of his chief critics-the Rev.
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All had protested vigorous.
ly against remarks by Father
Berrigan to Arab graduate
students several months ago_
in which he charged, among
other things that Israel was
"the creation of an elite of
millionaires, generajs and
entrepreneurs." Rabbi,Hertz-
berg called Berrigan's state-
ments "old-fashioned theolog-
ical anti-Semitism."
Berrigan, who served a
term in federal prison for
destroying draft records dur-
ing the Vietnam war, con-
tended that his critics held
Israel beyond criticism.
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G r e e c e, 6,500; Hungary,
80,000; Ireland, 4,000; Italy,
35,000; Netherlands, 30,000,
Poland, 8,000; Romania,
90,000; Spain, 9,000; Sweden,
15,000; Switzerland, 20,000;
Turkey, 30,000; and Yugo-
slavia, 7,000.
Estimated population for
major centers of Jewish con-
centration in the Americas,
besides the United States,
include: Canada, 305,000;
Mexico, 40,000; Argentina,
500,000; Brazil, 150,000; Chile,
30,000; Colombia, 13,000;
Peru, 5,300; Uruguay, 50,000,
and Venezuela, 15,000.
In Asia, the only major
centers of Jewish population,
besides Israel, are India,
14,000; and Iran, 80,000. In
Africa, there are substantial
Jewish numbers only in
South Africa, 117,900; Mo-
rocco, 31,000; Ethiopia,
12,000; Tunisia, 8,000; and
Rhodesia, 5,200. There are
70,000 Jews in Australia and
4,000 in New Zealand.
Among the major world
cities, outside of the United
States, where Jews are lo-
cated, a r e: Amsterdam,
12,000; Antwerp, 13,000; Brus-
sels, 24,500; Bucharest, 50,-
200; Budapest, 65,000; Bu-
enos Aires, 350,000; Glasgow,
13.400; Haifa, 210,000; Jeru-
salem, 266,000; Johannes-
burg, 57,500; Kiev, 220,000;
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Leningrad,
Leeds, 19,400;
165,000; London, 280,000;
Lyons, 20,000; Manchester,
36,000; Marseille, 65,000; Mel-
bourne, 34,000; Mexico City,
30,000; Milan, 9,500; Monte-
video 48,000; Montreal,
113,000; Moscow, 285,000;
Nice, 20,000; Paris, 300,000;
Rio de Janeiro, 50,000; Rome,
15,000; Sao Paulo, 65,000;
Strasbourg, 12,000; Sydney,
28,000; Teheran, 50,000; Tel
Aviv-Jaffa, 394,000; Toronto,
97,000; Toulouse, 18,000; and
Winnipeg, 21,000.
The American Jewish Year
Book is published jointly by
the American Jewish Com-
mittee and the Jewish Pub-
lication Society of America.
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Its editors are Morris Fine
and Milton Himmelfarb. Mrs.
Martha Jelenko is the execu-
tive editor. The book is Vol-
ume 74 in the annual series.
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