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- As of 2020, the number of Jews in Finland was approximately 1,800, of whom 1,400 lived in Helsinki, about 200 in Turku, and about 50 in Tampere.
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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.
Today, Finland is home to around 1,800 Jews, of which 1,400 live in the Greater Helsinki area and 200 in Turku. [1] Finnish and Swedish are the most common mother tongues of Jews in Finland, and many also speak Yiddish, German, Russian or Hebrew. [2] Since data collection began in 2008, incidents of antisemitism have been on the rise in Finland ...
The Institute for Jewish Policy Research uses four key definitions to describe the size of the Jewish population in Europe: ‘Core’ Jewish population, population with Jewish parents, ‘Enlarged’ population, and ‘Law of Return’ Jewish population.
In Denmark, the nation’s 7,000 Jews live almost entirely in and around Copenhagen. Norway’s 1,500 Jews live mainly in Oslo, and most of the 1,000 Finnish Jews live in Helsinki, though small communities exist in Turku and Tampere.
- Andrew Buckser
Oct 21, 2020 · Written by leading Jewish demographers Professor Sergio DellaPergola and Dr Daniel Staetsky, the Chair and Director of JPR’s European Jewish Demography Unit respectively, it explores how the European Jewish population has ebbed and flowed over time.
Jan 11, 2014 · There are an estimated 1,500 Jews resided in Finland today – 1,200 living in the capital Helsinki, about 200 in Turku and an estimated 50 in Tampere. Jews in Finland are well integrated into...
Apr 24, 2022 · Among Finns that figure is 17 percent," she said, noting that Finland's relatively small Jewish community may have impacted the results. Some 1,500 people in Finland practice Judaism. Schnurbein noted that antisemitic awareness was also relatively low in Finland.
