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The total country population of Finland: 5,500,000 Determining how many Jews live in a particular place is often more complicated than it seems. The challenge is all about where to draw the boundary between who is and is not Jewish. Jews themselves differ on inclusion and exclusion criteria, and depending on the reason behind the enquiry, there may be a compelling case for choosing one ...
The total country population of Europe: 828,875,000. Determining how many Jews live in a particular place is often more complicated than it seems. The challenge is all about where to draw the boundary between who is and is not Jewish. Jews themselves differ on inclusion and exclusion criteria, and depending on the reason behind the enquiry ...
May 29, 2014 · Finland’s Jewish population stands at about 1,800, of whom 1,500 live in Helsinki. There are smaller communities in Turku (which has its own synagogue) and Tampere. About 70 percent of the country’s Jews are native born, many descended from the Cantonists who chose to remain in Finland in the 19th century.
The total country population of the European Union: 445,000,000 Determining how many Jews live in a particular place is often more complicated than it seems. The challenge is all about where to draw the boundary between who is and is not Jewish. Jews themselves differ on inclusion and exclusion criteria, and depending on the reason behind the enquiry, there may be a compelling case for ...
- Prehistory of The Community
- Arrival of Jews in The Czar’S Army
- Finnish Independence and The Emancipation of The Jews
- Interwar Period
- The Second World War and Finnish Jewry
- The Postwar Era
The territory which is now Finland was for more than half a millennium – until 1809 – part of the Swedish Kingdom. Under Swedish law, Jews of that period were allowed to settle only in three major towns in the Kingdom, none of them being situated in the territory of Finland. In 1809, as a consequence of the defeat of Sweden in the Finnish War of 18...
Finnish Jewish history effectively began in the first half of the 19th century when Jewish soldiers (so-called Cantonists), who served in the Russian Army in Finland, were permitted to stay in Finland by the Russian military authorities following the soldiers’ discharge. Subsequently, the presence of Jews in the country was governed by the decree o...
The struggle for equal rights for Jews was taken up in the Diet of Finland in 1872. The press debate on Jewish emancipation that started about that time continued during the 1870s and 1880s. There was not, however, yet to be any change for better in the status of the Jews in Finland. By the end of the 1880s there were about a thousand Jewish reside...
Between the two world wars, the Jewish population increased to about 2,000 as a result of immigration mainly from Soviet Russia during the early period of the Revolution. Many young Jews studied at university, and others entered the liberal professions as physicians, lawyers, and engineers. Still others turned to industry and forestry, but the majo...
JDuring the Winter War (Finnish-Russian War of 1939–1940), Finnish Jews fought alongside their non-Jewish fellow countrymen. During the Finnish-Russian War of 1941–44, in which Finnish Jews also took part, Finland and Nazi-Germany were co-belligerents. Despite strong German pressure, the Finnish Government refused to take action against Finnish nat...
After the end of the war, the integration of Jewish population of Finland into Finnish society was completed. The War of Independence for the State of Israel brought to the new state Finnish-Jewish volunteers as well as weapon donations by the State of Finland. These Finnish volunteers represented the highest per-capita participation of any diaspor...
Feb 28, 2019 · In the 1920s and 30s, the National Library of Finland became a repository for Yiddish books published in the last decades of the Russian Empire and in the Soviet Union. The Jewish community also ...
Jun 13, 2008 · Escape From the Holocaust: The Fate of Jews in Finland. June 13, 2008. On Tuesday, June 17, the Wilson Center will host an international conference on findings of recent studies of the exceptional status of Finnish Jews and the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust in several European countries. This event is open to the public.
