Jüdische Bevölkerung in Europa, 1933 und 2015

I’m surprised by how many jews there are in germany, given how little remained in poland and eastern europe. I wonder if these are the ones who stayed, or mostly came to germany after the shoah

My great great grandmother (matrilineal line)was one of those 1 thousand portuguese jews, which apparently makes me a jew as well by what i’m told. They’d been practicing in secret for 400 years, although by that point most of the family had converted to christianity, including her first cousin, who she married. No wonder there are so little, we suffered 500 years of continuous cultural genocide and assimilation. Frankly i’m surprised at the 600 still there.

There’s a significant history of portuguese jews in the netherlands, notably the english economist David Ricardo comes from a portuguese-dutch-anglo-jewish (lol) family

I think France and Sweden are the only countries that have an increased number than 1933. I suspect that France’s increase is likely in part because many, if not most, of Algeria’s Jewish population fled there after Algeria secured its independence.