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Sephardic jews are not ethnic Western European Spanish.
Jew immigrants emigrated to Spain through the Mediterranean.
Later, they were expelled from Spain. Similar to what the USA does to Mexicans.
There is no such thing as a European Jew. Jews are from the middle east (Israel).
People need to remember that Ashkenazi Jews intermixed heavily with Northern Europeans as Sephardic Jews interrmarried with Southern Europeans and North Africans. So their features changed. But Jews from the Middle East whose lines have been there for ever still look just like other Middle Easterners.
There is no Jewish gene. There is the Cohen Gene.
The Cohen Modal Haplotype is found among many Jewish populations of the world, including Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and the Bene Israel of India.
The Cohen Modal Haplotype, which belongs to haplogroup J, was a component of the ancient Israelite population, and especially common among the Cohens (priests of the Temple in Jerusalem).
The Cohen Modal Haplotype is not exclusively found among Jews, but rather is also found among Kurds, Armenians, Italians, Palestinians, Arabs, and a few other peoples.
About half of Ashkenazic Levites possess Eastern European non-Israelite haplotypes belonging to the R1a1 haplogroup. This is almost never found among Sephardic Levites, and may have been introduced into the Ashkenazic Levite lines by Slavs or Khazars who converted to Judaism.
WW2 and the Spanish inquisition.
You may add the UK and their favorite "pro-Jewish" Pakistan and UAE (have visited UAE...not overly proud by this though...).
Russia still has a Jewish population in the multi-millions.
Other than that, it's because of the high antisemitism in Europe. When you have a white-Christian dominating country, white supremacy is bound to happen sooner or later.
LOL, the USA is a white Christian dominating country and has more Jews than any other country. Why do you think there aren't that many Jews in Muslim dominating countries? Russia only has about 186K Jews compared to 7M in the USA.
I'm not ignorant about the fact that many Jews came to the United States to escape the Holocaust and the pogroms. But I didn't know that much more about other western countries and if they took in as many Jewish people as immigrants whose descendents still live there today (I guess in continental Europe overall, not a lot of places were safe, but I was also wondering about the UK and other parts of the Anglosphere too).
Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝 Sugihara Chiune?, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from German-occupied Western Poland or Russian-occupied Eastern Poland, as well as residents of Lithuania. Sugihara wrote travel visas that facilitated the escape of more than 6,000 Jewish refugees to Japanese territory, risking his career and his family's lives. Sugihara had told the refugees to call him "Sempo", the Sino-Japanese reading of the characters in his given name, discovering it was much easier for Western people to pronounce.[1] In 1985, Israel named him to the Righteous Among the Nations for his actions, the only Japanese national to be so honored.
Notables helped by Sugihara
Leaders and students of the Mir Yeshiva, Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim (formally of Lubavitch/Lyubavichi, Russia) relocated to Otwock, Poland and elsewhere.
Yaakov Banai, commander of the Lehi movement's combat unit and later an Israeli military commander.
Joseph R. Fiszman, a noted scholar and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Oregon.[21]
Robert Lewin, a Polish art dealer and philanthropist.
Leo Melamed, financier, head of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), and pioneer of financial futures.
John G. Stoessinger, professor of diplomacy at the University of San Diego.
Zerach Warhaftig, an Israeli lawyer and politician(notably, an Israeli Religious Minister) and a signatory of Israel's Declaration of Independence.
George Zames, control theorist
Bernard and Rochelle Zell, parents of business magnate Sam Zell
I noticed that proportionally, by religion stats, there are fewer people who are Jewish in the UK, European countries, even Canada and Australia. In absolute size of course, the US is the biggest western country and would have the most immigrants, but by proportion in the US, Jewish population is close to 2%, and in most other western countries, be they Canada, Australia, France, UK etc., they are less than 1% and closer to 0.5%
Did the United States just have a much larger population from earlier waves of immigration, Ellis Island and earlier?
Did Jews leaving Europe for historical reasons cause such a demographic shift?
In the US, Judaism is the second largest religion, while in many other western countries it is Islam (presumably by recent immigration), but also even in Australia and Canada, Buddhists or Hindus' populations are bigger than the Jewish ones there.
Is the larger percentage of Jewish people in the US than in other western nations a product of 20th century immigration? How far back does it go?
More people of Jewish descent migrated to the U.S. from Europe, fleeing persecution, anti-semitism, etc...
To live in Europe a person needs a European nationality, and European nationalities are passed on by blood right (Jus Sanguinis). There is a tiny population of Jews in Europe because a Jew cannot acquire any of these nationalities, unless they marry a European person and acquire the European nationality of that person through marriage.
In the USA, nationalities are acquired by birth right, anyone who is born here gets the nationality and that is why there are more Jews here in the U.S..
IUS SOLIS, by birth.
If you can proof you are Sephardic, you are a Spanish national automatically-
I guess that the same goes on in other western European countries.
you are a racist! Albert einstein was a european jew.
Ashkenazim jews are european jews.
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Jews in US.
