mishpacha:

batboyblog:

With Passover coming up, a holiday about exile and the return from same I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s happened to my people in the last 100 years or so, the life time of my own grandfather (who is 92) a lot of people don’t know or don’t really understand the massive shifts in Jewish population in just the last 70ish years so here’s some visuals 

1940s

Poland: 3,250,000 Jews in 1939—> 230,000 in 1946—> 31,000 in 1960—> 7,353 in 2011

Romania: 980,000 in 1933—>3,271 in 2011

Germany: 564,379 in 1925—>30,000 in 1990 (good news it’s risen to 119,000 since 1990!)

Hungary: 444,567 in 1930—>48,600 in 2010

Greece: 100,000 in 1939—>4,500 today

1950s

Egypt: 80,000 in 1948—>6 today

Libya: 38,000 in 1948—>0 since 2003

Morocco: 265,000 in 1948—>2,500 today

Tunisia: 100,000 in 1940—>1,700 today

Yemen: 55,000 in 1948—>50 today

Iraq: 156,000 in 1947—>3 as of 2013

1960s

Algeria: 130,000 in 1962—>unclear, less than 50 as of the 1990s

1970s

USSR: 2,166,026 in 1970—>1,830,317 in 1979—>1,479,732 in 1989

1980s

Ethiopia: 100,000 in 1974—>4,000 today

Iran: 100,000 in 1979—>8,756 today

1990s

Russia: 570,467 in 1989—>159,348 in 2010

Ukraine: 487,555 in 1989—>71,500 in 2010

Belarus: 112,031 in 1989—>12,926 in 2010

Uzbekistan: 95,104 in 1989—>4,500 in 2010

Syria: 6,000 in 1992—> 18 as of 2015

2000s

Venezuela: 25,000 in 1999—>6,000 today

this is not a total list, and of course leaves out the rising anti-Semitism crisis in France which is driving a rising immigration out of France (and the rest of Europe as well) or troubles in Argentina, or the fact that 45% of British Jews see no future in the UK.

The current numbers for Syria are 9 according to the last chief Rabbi of Syria who I spoke with a couple months ago.