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    American Jews, also known as Jewish Americans,[5] are American citizens who are Jews, either by religion, ethnicity or nationality.[6] The Jewish community in the United States is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews and their US-born descendants, making up about 90% of the American Jewish population.[7][8] Minority Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented, including Sephardic Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and a smaller percentage of converts to Judaism. The American Jewish community manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions, as well as encompassing the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance.

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    American Jews, also known as Jewish Americans,[5] are American citizens who are Jews, either by religion, ethnicity or nationality.[6] The Jewish community in the United States is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews and their US-born descendants, making up about 90% of the American Jewish population.[7][8] Minority Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented, including Sephardic Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and a smaller percentage of converts to Judaism. The American Jewish community manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions, as well as encompassing the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance.

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    American Jews, also known as Jewish Americans,[5] are American citizens who are Jews, either by religion, ethnicity or nationality.[6] The Jewish community in the United States is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews and their US-born descendants, making up about 90% of the American Jewish population.[7][8] Minority Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented, including Sephardic Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and a smaller percentage of converts to Judaism. The American Jewish community manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions, as well as encompassing the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance.

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    AmericanJews,alsoknownasJewishAmericans,[5]areAmericancitizenswhoareJews,eitherby
    religion,ethnicityornationality.[6]TheJewishcommunityintheUnitedStatesiscomposed
    predominantlyofAshkenaziJewsandtheirUSborndescendants,makingupabout90%ofthe
    AmericanJewishpopulation.[7][8]MinorityJewishethnicdivisionsarealsorepresented,including
    SephardicJews,MizrahiJews,andasmallerpercentageofconvertstoJudaism.TheAmericanJewish
    communitymanifestsawiderangeofJewishculturaltraditions,aswellasencompassingthefull
    spectrumofJewishreligiousobservance.
    Dependingonreligiousdefinitionsandvaryingpopulationdata,theUnitedStatesishometothe
    largestorsecondlargest(afterIsrael)Jewishcommunityintheworld.In2012,theAmericanJewish
    populationwasestimatedatbetween5.5and8million,dependingonthedefinitionoftheterm.This
    constitutesbetween1.7%to2.6%ofthetotalU.S.population.[1]

    Contents
    1 History
    1.1 Selfidentity
    1.2 Politics
    1.3 Participationincivilrightsmovements
    1.4 TheHolocaust
    1.5 Internationalaffairs
    2 Demographics
    2.1 SignificantJewishpopulationcenters
    2.2 DistributionofJewishAmericans
    2.3 Assimilationandpopulationchanges
    2.4 Subgroups
    2.5 AmericanJewsandrace
    2.5.1 AfricanAmericanJewsandotherAmericanJewsofAfricandescent
    2.6 Socioeconomics
    2.6.1 ConcentrationofAmericanJewsatvariousAmericanhighereducation

    AmericanJews
    Totalpopulation
    5,425,0008,300,000[1]
    1.72.6%oftotalU.S.population,2012[2]
    Regionswithsignificantpopulations
    IntheUnitedStates,thefollowing12metropolitan
    AreashostthelargestJewishAmericanpopulation
    centres:NewYorkCity, [3]Miami,Boston,Los
    Angeles,Philadelphia,Cincinnati,Houston,
    Chicago,Cleveland,Baltimore,SanFrancisco,
    Detroit.
    UnitedStates

    5.48.3million

    Israel

    170,000[4]
    Languages

    AmericanEnglishYiddishHebrew
    Religion
    Judaism

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