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|languages = '''Predominant spoken languages:'''<br />{{Hlist|[[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]|[[English language|English]]|[[Russian language|Russian]]|the [[vernacular]] languages of other countries in the [[Jewish diaspora|diaspora]]}}
|languages = '''Lingua franca:'''<br/>[[English language|English]]<ref>{{cite book|first=Elana|last=Shohamy|chapter=Chapter 11: Cases of Language Policy Resistance in Israel's Centralized Education System|editor1-last=Menken|editor1-first=Kate|editor2-last=García|editor2-first=Ofelia|title=Negotiating Language Policies in Schools: Educators as Policymakers|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=A3wGEYHA5t4C&pg=PA185#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2010|location=New York|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0-415-80207-5|page=185|quote="This priority given to English [in Israeli educational policy] is related to the special relationship between Israel and the United States, and the current status of English as a ''lingua franca'' for Jews worldwide."}}</ref><br/>'''Other predominant spoken languages:'''<br />{{Hlist|[[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]|[[Russian language|Russian]]|[[French language|French]]|and the [[vernacular]] languages of other countries in the [[Jewish diaspora|diaspora]]}}
'''Historical languages:'''<br />{{Hlist|[[Yiddish language|Yiddish]]|[[Judaeo-Spanish|Ladino]]|[[Judeo-Arabic languages|Judeo-Arabic]]|[[Jewish languages|others]]}}
'''Historical languages:'''<br />{{Hlist|[[Yiddish language|Yiddish]]|[[Judaeo-Spanish|Ladino]]|[[Judeo-Arabic languages|Judeo-Arabic]]|[[Jewish languages|others]]}}
'''Sacred languages:'''<br />{{Hlist|[[Biblical Hebrew]]|[[Aramaic language|Aramaic]]}}
'''Sacred languages:'''<br />{{Hlist|[[Biblical Hebrew]]|[[Aramaic language|Aramaic]]}}

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Jews
Hebrew: יהודים ([Yehudim] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help))
Albert Einstein
Sholem Aleichem
Marc Chagall
Emmy Noether
Maimonides
David Ben-Gurion
Natalie Portman
Franz Kafka
Baruch Spinoza
Total population
14 million[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
 United States6,800,000[3]
 Israel6,042,000[4]
 France480,000[2]
 Canada375,000[2]
 United Kingdom291,000[2]
 Russia194,000[2]
 Argentina182,300[2]
 Germany119,000[2]
 Australia107,500[2]
 Brazil95,300[2]
 South Africa70,800[2]
 Ukraine67,000[2]
 Hungary48,600[2]
 Mexico39,400[2]
 Belgium30,300[2]
 Netherlands30,000[2]
 Italy28,400[2]
 Iran25,000[5][6]
 Chile20,500[2]
All other countries250,200[2]
Languages
Predominant spoken languages:
Historical languages:
Sacred languages:
Religion
Judaism
Related ethnic groups
other Levantines,[7][8][9][10] Samaritans,[9] Arabs,[9][11] Assyrians[9][10]

Notes

  1. ^ "Judaism 101: Jewish Population". Judaism101. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r DellaPergola, Sergio (November 2, 2012). Dashefsky, Arnold; Sheskin, Ira (eds.). "World Jewish Population, 2012" (PDF). Current Jewish Population Reports. Storrs, Connecticut: North American Jewish Data Bank. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
  3. ^ "Survey: America has more Jews than Israel". Jewish Chronicle. October 1, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  4. ^ "Israel's population crosses 8 million mark". Ynetnews. April 14, 2013. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
  5. ^ "Iranian Jews". Iranjewish.com. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
  6. ^ "Life of Jews Living in Iran". Sephardicstudies.org. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
  7. ^ Wade, Nicholas (June 9, 2010). "Studies Show Jews' Genetic Similarity". New York Times.
  8. ^ Nebel, Almut; Filon, Dvora; Weiss, Deborah A.; Weale, Michael; Faerman, Marina; Oppenheim, Ariella; Thomas, Mark G. (2000). "High-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes of Israeli and Palestinian Arabs reveal geographic substructure and substantial overlap with haplotypes of Jews" (PDF). Human Genetics. 107 (6): 630–41. doi:10.1007/s004390000426. PMID 11153918.
  9. ^ a b c d Shen, P; Lavi, T; Kivisild, T; Chou, V; Sengun, D; Gefel, D; Shpirer, I; Woolf, E; Hillel, J (2004). "Reconstruction of patrilineages and matrilineages of Samaritans and other Israeli populations from Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA sequence variation" (PDF). Human mutation. 24 (3): 248–60. doi:10.1002/humu.20077. PMID 15300852. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |displayauthors= ignored (|display-authors= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ a b "Jews Are The Genetic Brothers Of Palestinians, Syrians, And Lebanese". Sciencedaily.com. 2000-05-09. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
  11. ^ Atzmon, G; Hao, L; Pe'Er, I; Velez, C; Pearlman, A; Palamara, PF; Morrow, B; Friedman, E; Oddoux, C (2010). "Abraham's Children in the Genome Era: Major Jewish Diaspora Populations Comprise Distinct Genetic Clusters with Shared Middle Eastern Ancestry". American Journal of Human Genetics. 86 (6): 850–859. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.04.015. PMC 3032072. PMID 20560205. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |displayauthors= ignored (|display-authors= suggested) (help)