A little note; in the case of no reliable census data I used certified estimates (France,Spain) and if those weren’t satisfactory or available I used membership in local Jewish congregations (Germany, Denmark, Sweden).
If you have any question about the data, comment and I will lost my sources.
Source? I am shocked there’s nobody in Poland. Is this accurate?
Why would Jewish people live in Russia? Russia put them in concentration camps during Soviet times and to this day they are one of the lowest castes in Russian society.
We used to have a sizeable Jewish minority even after WW2 and still have one of the biggest synagogues in Europe. Most of them left to found Israel however and nowadays there’s very few left here. We still get something like 250K Israeli visitors to Bulgaria every year.
Bro, there was only an earthquake in Antioch, it did not cease to exist.
There is a Jewish community of approximately 1300 members in Zagreb, according to the Council of Europe portal
1400 in Dublin? I’m from Ireland and honestly didn’t think there were any Jews here. TIL.
They killed 6 million of us including my grandparents and 6 month old aunt.
Turkey dont háve Hatay?
The latest Romanian census said there were only 2.378 jews in all Romania and we definitely don’t all live in Bucharest.
I’m so sad we kicked them out, also what’s with Poland, I understand the nazi occupation was brutal but historically Poland was the most tolerate Kingdom in Europe and there was a huge Jewish community, surely they are still a good number.
This map is awful. And I’d bet it’s highly inaccurate. ‘Leeds’ is spelled incorrectly, and the legend is very confusing.
Romania had 750k Jews before WWII and a big chunk of the Bucharest’s citizens were Jewish, Holocaust killed half of them and the rest emigrated, most of them in Israel.
My grandparents would still speak much yiddish, even while not being jews. Thats because they grew up in Berlin at a time when most of the slang was just yiddish.
Still saddens me everytime i think about, how a state and its people can just turn against thier neighbors in the middle of “society”.
Spain (and also Portugal?) wasn’t occupied by Nazis and had a sefardim population, what happened there? Or was it never big?
The map ankles me really sad when you remember how it used to look …
Now post pre war stats with it
Ooohhh a Marseille W. Those are rare 🙂
The Jewish community in Rome is from the 3rd century BCE, one of the oldest in Europe. They had “up and downs” (many downs…), but it is integral part of the city and its traditions (we don’t put Jewish inside a barrel and roll them down hill anymore).
Sad to see so few of Jewish people left in Helsinki. They are a very small minority but quite influential and respected one.
Would like to see that map every 20 years for the last century. How did you go about getting this data?
I hate the lack of number in Poland and what it means 🙁
I’m Polish myself
No idea why there is no dot marked in Poland, I live in Krakow and the Jewish population here is at least at 1000 and constantly growing, so definitely should be marked
What year is this map from?
Hertfordshire is a county with lots of towns within it. Not a city.
Why did you use Russian names for Moldovan and Ukrainian cities?
Hatay is belong to turkey and this not includes wtf?
It’s funny there’s Milan as it’s not traditionally thought as your typical Jewish city in Italy: it doesn’t have an historical ghetto like for instance Ravenna, Venice, Trieste, Torino, Bologna, Florence… and ofc Rome.
Source ?
In Ukraine we have a lot of Jewish people who don’t identify as such, the numbers are definitely bigger than the map suggests.
Poland, man… That painter…
It would be very interesting to see how democratic politics would have looked like in many European states if it wasn’t for the Holocaust. In cities like Warsaw and Thessalonika Jews were nearly 40% of the population and even in those where they werent so nunerous they still represented a sizable minority like in Vienna and Amsterdam.
Thessaloniki used to be half Jewish
Leads…
Really impressed by Marseille and Nice. I couldn’t imagine that they should have such a strong jewish communities.
So in France, Jews live in the cities where there are the most Arabs and muslims (Paris and Marseille). Their cohabitation can go well if the conditions are met.
Germany? Care to explain Poland’s figures?
Is there no data for Venice?
Either Warsaw is not an European city or Hitler won
Wonder what happened to Jews in Poland and Slovakia /s
So. Russia prefers to shell those with Jews? (Mariupol, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Kiev)
Woah, what a nice coast Slovenia has
I was going to make a joke about Spain but i got expelled…
No jews in poland?
Same statistic, same flaws in representation as last time it was posted. (excluding one – using area instead of radius really helped!)
Why are some cities linked by roman numerals, while others (e.g. Hamburg) are not?
Why are some cities with x”k”, while others with bigger numbers are written out(Izmir 2400, Athens 2k)
Why are some countries missing completely but still are colored in green?
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Comparing both graphs show big differences: Kyiv from 110k to now 14k. Berlin from 25k to 35k. Moscow from 100k to 28k. No idea which one was false or if the difference really is “metropolitan area” vs. “city”
Obviously the Holocaust is infamous and remarkable for millions of reasons, but the near eradication of the large Eastern European Jewish population is still insane to look at it.
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I was inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/zm1umk/jewish_population_in_european_metropolitan_areas/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) which not only was visually laking but also was highly inaccurate so I decided to make a better version that includes more communities.
A little note; in the case of no reliable census data I used certified estimates (France,Spain) and if those weren’t satisfactory or available I used membership in local Jewish congregations (Germany, Denmark, Sweden).
If you have any question about the data, comment and I will lost my sources.
Source? I am shocked there’s nobody in Poland. Is this accurate?
Why would Jewish people live in Russia? Russia put them in concentration camps during Soviet times and to this day they are one of the lowest castes in Russian society.
We used to have a sizeable Jewish minority even after WW2 and still have one of the biggest synagogues in Europe. Most of them left to found Israel however and nowadays there’s very few left here. We still get something like 250K Israeli visitors to Bulgaria every year.
Bro, there was only an earthquake in Antioch, it did not cease to exist.
There is a Jewish community of approximately 1300 members in Zagreb, according to the Council of Europe portal
[https://www.coe.int/en/web/cultural-routes/-/jewish-community-of-zagreb](https://www.coe.int/en/web/cultural-routes/-/jewish-community-of-zagreb)
1400 in Dublin? I’m from Ireland and honestly didn’t think there were any Jews here. TIL.
They killed 6 million of us including my grandparents and 6 month old aunt.
Turkey dont háve Hatay?
The latest Romanian census said there were only 2.378 jews in all Romania and we definitely don’t all live in Bucharest.
I’m so sad we kicked them out, also what’s with Poland, I understand the nazi occupation was brutal but historically Poland was the most tolerate Kingdom in Europe and there was a huge Jewish community, surely they are still a good number.
This map is awful. And I’d bet it’s highly inaccurate. ‘Leeds’ is spelled incorrectly, and the legend is very confusing.
Romania had 750k Jews before WWII and a big chunk of the Bucharest’s citizens were Jewish, Holocaust killed half of them and the rest emigrated, most of them in Israel.
My grandparents would still speak much yiddish, even while not being jews. Thats because they grew up in Berlin at a time when most of the slang was just yiddish.
Still saddens me everytime i think about, how a state and its people can just turn against thier neighbors in the middle of “society”.
Spain (and also Portugal?) wasn’t occupied by Nazis and had a sefardim population, what happened there? Or was it never big?
The map ankles me really sad when you remember how it used to look …
Now post pre war stats with it
Ooohhh a Marseille W. Those are rare 🙂
The Jewish community in Rome is from the 3rd century BCE, one of the oldest in Europe. They had “up and downs” (many downs…), but it is integral part of the city and its traditions (we don’t put Jewish inside a barrel and roll them down hill anymore).
Sad to see so few of Jewish people left in Helsinki. They are a very small minority but quite influential and respected one.
Would like to see that map every 20 years for the last century. How did you go about getting this data?
I hate the lack of number in Poland and what it means 🙁
I’m Polish myself
No idea why there is no dot marked in Poland, I live in Krakow and the Jewish population here is at least at 1000 and constantly growing, so definitely should be marked
What year is this map from?
Hertfordshire is a county with lots of towns within it. Not a city.
Why did you use Russian names for Moldovan and Ukrainian cities?
Hatay is belong to turkey and this not includes wtf?
It’s funny there’s Milan as it’s not traditionally thought as your typical Jewish city in Italy: it doesn’t have an historical ghetto like for instance Ravenna, Venice, Trieste, Torino, Bologna, Florence… and ofc Rome.
Source ?
In Ukraine we have a lot of Jewish people who don’t identify as such, the numbers are definitely bigger than the map suggests.
Poland, man… That painter…
It would be very interesting to see how democratic politics would have looked like in many European states if it wasn’t for the Holocaust. In cities like Warsaw and Thessalonika Jews were nearly 40% of the population and even in those where they werent so nunerous they still represented a sizable minority like in Vienna and Amsterdam.
Thessaloniki used to be half Jewish
Leads…
Really impressed by Marseille and Nice. I couldn’t imagine that they should have such a strong jewish communities.
So in France, Jews live in the cities where there are the most Arabs and muslims (Paris and Marseille). Their cohabitation can go well if the conditions are met.
Germany? Care to explain Poland’s figures?
Is there no data for Venice?
Either Warsaw is not an European city or Hitler won
Wonder what happened to Jews in Poland and Slovakia /s
So. Russia prefers to shell those with Jews? (Mariupol, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Kiev)
Woah, what a nice coast Slovenia has
I was going to make a joke about Spain but i got expelled…
No jews in poland?
Same statistic, same flaws in representation as last time it was posted. (excluding one – using area instead of radius really helped!)
Why are some cities linked by roman numerals, while others (e.g. Hamburg) are not?
Why are some cities with x”k”, while others with bigger numbers are written out(Izmir 2400, Athens 2k)
Why are some countries missing completely but still are colored in green?
​
Comparing both graphs show big differences: Kyiv from 110k to now 14k. Berlin from 25k to 35k. Moscow from 100k to 28k. No idea which one was false or if the difference really is “metropolitan area” vs. “city”
​
Edit: [https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/zm1umk/jewish_population_in_european_metropolitan_areas/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/zm1umk/jewish_population_in_european_metropolitan_areas/)
Expected more in Antwerp
Obviously the Holocaust is infamous and remarkable for millions of reasons, but the near eradication of the large Eastern European Jewish population is still insane to look at it.
Hertfordshire isn’t a city.