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How many Jews live in Ukraine today? This is a difficult question to answer with specificity, complicated by the cultural makeup of Ukrainian Jewry and its history. A 2020 demographic study of...
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Feb 27, 2022 · 350,000 Jews are served by 192 Chabad couples in 32 cities and towns. By Dovid Margolin February 27, 2022 10:26 AM. Children celebrate Chanukah in Kharkov. Ukraine has been under attack since the early morning of Feb. 24, and the country’s entire population is in danger, including the 350,000 Jews who call it home.
In 2023, Ukraine is home to 45,000 Jews, making it the fourth-largest Jewish community in Europe and the 11th-largest in the world. Ukrainian Jews are prevalent throughout Ukrainian society, including high offices of the state.
May 15, 2019 · Ukraine, which today has anywhere between 60,000 to 360,000 Jews, depending on the definitions of who’s counting, also became a huge spiritual center for Hasidic Judaism.
Sep 11, 2023 · No one knows exactly how many Jews are left in Ukraine, and anyway the numbers depend on who counts as one.
Apr 15, 2007 · Estimates of the number of Jews living in contemporary Ukraine vary from 100,000 to 200,000. All observers believe that the Jewish population is in rapid demographic decline. It is likely to decrease even further in coming years due to a low birthrate, intermarriage and assimilation, and a lack of attractive gateways into Jewish life.
Depending on how one counts, Ukraine was home to the largest Jewish community in Europe on the eve of the Nazi invasion, with some 2.7 million Jews, equalling about 5 percent of the population. The western part of modern-day Ukraine was under Polish control when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, initiating World War II.
