Category: How many Jews

The reported situation At 9.30 AM on the 29 November 2021, the latest results of the 2021 Census of England and Wales describing the religious and ethnic composition of the nation made it into the public domain. The Office for National Statistics (the ONS) told that in 2021 the Census of England and Wales registered 271,327 people who self-identified as Jews in response to the religion question. To be precise, these are people who ticked the ‘Jewish’ box in response to a question ‘What is your religion?’. A decade earlier, in 2011, there were 265,073 such people. That means an addition of 6,000, or growth of 2.4%, in a decade. For comparison, the population of England and Wales as a whole grew by about 6.3% during this period. Just how credible is it? This picture is rather incredible. Anyone with sound knowledge of the recent demographic realities of British Jews would say so.  Konstantin Stanislavsky, a notable Russian theatre producer and actors’ trainer,...

Nights are still getting longer and weather is getting colder. Which is exactly why the Office for National Statistics in England and Wales chose to release the 2021 Census data on religion and ethnicity. To keep us on fire with excitement. Census data are exciting (said nobody ever), but bear with me. You can do all sorts with the Census data. Cambridge versus Oxford Jewish race, for example. Have you not always wondered which one, Cambridge or Oxford, has more Jews? So here is the end of that mystery. It is Oxford. Oxford has slightly (very slightly!) more Jews than Cambridge. Just above 2,000 people in the City of Oxford and the surrounding districts of Oxfordshire ticked the ‘Jewish’ box in the 2021 Census (2,117). Just under 2,000 people identified as Jews by religion in the City of Cambridge and the surrounding districts of Cambridgeshire (1,978). Just under 1,000 Jews in each place identified as Jews by ethnicity, but-from the experience of...

According to the recent release of the Pew Research Center, American Jewish population grew by 12% in seven years and it comes to 7.5 million today. This miraculous numerical development is shown below. My blog at the 'Times of Israel' tells the actual story. It is quite different. ...