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In 2013, the [[Pew Research Center]]'s ''Portrait of Jewish Americans'' found that more than 90% of Jews who responded to their survey described themselves as [[non-Hispanic whites]], 2% as [[African Americans|black]], 3% as [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]], and 2% of other racial or ethnic backgrounds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2013/10/jewish-american-full-report-for-web.pdf |title=A Portrait of Jewish Americans: Findings from a Pew Research Center Survey of U.S. Jews |page=46 |date=October 1, 2013 |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]] |accessdate=August 19, 2017 }}</ref> Judith Rosenbaum, writing in Jewish Women's Archive, writes that "many American Jews retain an ambivalence about whiteness".<ref>[http://jwa.org/teach/livingthelegacy/american-jews-race-identity-and-civil-rights-movement "American Jews, Race, Identity, and the Civil Rights Movement"] Rosenbaum, Judith. Jewish Women's Archive. Accessed December 12, 2015. "Today, many American Jews retain an ambivalence about whiteness, despite the fact that the vast majority have benefited and continue to benefit from [[[Passing (racial identity)|white-passing]]] privilege. This ambivalence stems from many different places: a deep connection to a Jewish history of discrimination and otherness; a moral imperative to identify with the stranger; an anti-universalist impulse that does not want Jews to be among the "melted" in the proverbial melting pot; an experience of prejudice and awareness of the contingency of whiteness; a feeling that Jewish identity is not fully described by religion but has some ethnic/tribal component that feels more accurately described by race; and a discomfort with contemporary Jewish power and privilege."</ref>
The overwhelming majority of American Jews view themselves as white. In 2013, the [[Pew Research Center]]'s ''Portrait of Jewish Americans'' found that more than 90% of Jews who responded to their survey described themselves as [[non-Hispanic whites]], 2% as [[African Americans|black]], 3% as [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]], and 2% of other racial or ethnic backgrounds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2013/10/jewish-american-full-report-for-web.pdf |title=A Portrait of Jewish Americans: Findings from a Pew Research Center Survey of U.S. Jews |page=46 |date=October 1, 2013 |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]] |accessdate=August 19, 2017 }}</ref> Judith Rosenbaum, writing in Jewish Women's Archive, writes that "many American Jews retain an ambivalence about whiteness".<ref>[http://jwa.org/teach/livingthelegacy/american-jews-race-identity-and-civil-rights-movement "American Jews, Race, Identity, and the Civil Rights Movement"] Rosenbaum, Judith. Jewish Women's Archive. Accessed December 12, 2015. "Today, many American Jews retain an ambivalence about whiteness, despite the fact that the vast majority have benefited and continue to benefit from [[[Passing (racial identity)|white-passing]]] privilege. This ambivalence stems from many different places: a deep connection to a Jewish history of discrimination and otherness; a moral imperative to identify with the stranger; an anti-universalist impulse that does not want Jews to be among the "melted" in the proverbial melting pot; an experience of prejudice and awareness of the contingency of whiteness; a feeling that Jewish identity is not fully described by religion but has some ethnic/tribal component that feels more accurately described by race; and a discomfort with contemporary Jewish power and privilege."</ref>


====African American Jews and other American Jews of African descent====
====African American Jews and other American Jews of African descent====

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American Jews
Total population
6,829,000–7,160,000[1]

1.7–2.6% of total U.S. population, 2012[2]
Enlarged population (includes full or partial Jewish ancestry)

8,000,000–10,000,000
Baltimore–Washington
 United States5.4–8.3 million
 Israel170,000[3]
Languages
Religion
Judaism (35% Reform, 18% Conservative, 10% Orthodox)[4]

American Jews, also described as Jewish Americans,[5] are Americans who are Jews, whether by religion, ethnicity or nationality.[6] The Jewish community in the United States is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews and their US-born descendants, who make up about 90% of the American Jewish population.[7][8] Other Jewish communities are also present, including Sephardic Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and a smaller number 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.

Depending on religious definitions and varying population data, the United States is home to the largest or second largest Jewish community in the world, after Israel. In 2012, the American Jewish population was estimated at between 5.5 and 8 million, depending on the definition of the term, which constitutes between 1.7% and 2.6% of the total U.S. population.[1]

History

Main article: History of the Jews in the United States

Jews have been present in what is today the United States of America since the mid-17th century.[9][10] However, they were small in number, with at most 200 to 300 having arrived by 1700.[11] The majority were Sephardic Jewish immigrants of Spanish and Portuguese ancestry;[12] until after 1720 when Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe predominated.[11]

The English

Sephardic Jewish
families remained influential.

Jewish migration to the United States increased dramatically in the early 1880s, as a result of persecution and economic difficulties in parts of Eastern Europe. Most of these new immigrants were

Yiddish newspapers was half a million in New York City alone, and 600,000 nationally. In addition thousands more subscribed to the numerous weekly papers and the many magazines.[15]

At the beginning of the 20th century, these newly arrived Jews built support networks consisting of many small synagogues and Ashkenazi Jewish

intermarriage. The suburbs facilitated the formation of new centers, as Jewish school enrollment more than doubled between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, while synagogue affiliation jumped from 20% in 1930 to 60% in 1960; the fastest growth came in Reform and, especially, Conservative congregations.[16]
More recent waves of Jewish emigration from Russia and other regions have largely joined the mainstream American Jewish community.

Americans of Jewish descent have been disproportionately successful in many fields and aspects over the years.[17][18] The Jewish community in America has gone from a lower class minority, with most studies putting upwards of 80% as manual factory laborers prior to World War I and with the majority of fields barred to them,[19] to the consistent richest or second richest ethnicity in America for the past 40 years in terms of average annual salary, with extremely high concentrations in academia and other fields, and today have the highest per capita income of any ethnic group in the United States, at around double the average income of non-Jewish Americans.[20][21][22]

Self identity

Scholars debate whether the favorable historical experience for Jews in the United States has been such a unique experience as to validate American exceptionalism.[23]

Korelitz (1996) shows how American Jews during the late 19th and early 20th centuries abandoned a racial definition of Jewishness in favor of one that embraced ethnicity. The key to understanding this transition from a racial self-definition to a cultural or ethnic one can be found in the ‘’Menorah Journal’’ between 1915 and 1925. During this time contributors to the Menorah promoted a cultural, rather than a racial, religious, or other view of Jewishness as a means to define Jews in a world that threatened to overwhelm and absorb Jewish uniqueness. The journal represented the ideals of the menorah movement established by

Horace M. Kallen and others to promote a revival in Jewish cultural identity and combat the idea of race as a means to define or identify peoples.[24]

Siporin (1990) uses the family folklore of ethnic Jews to their collective history and its transformation into an historical art form. They tell us how Jews have survived being uprooted and transformed. Many immigrant narratives bear a theme of the arbitrary nature of fate and the reduced state of immigrants in a new culture. By contrast, ethnic family narratives tend to show the ethnic more in charge of his life, and perhaps in danger of losing his Jewishness altogether. Some stories show how a family member successfully negotiated the conflict between ethnic and American identities.[25]

After 1960, memories of

Six Day War in 1967 had major impacts on fashioning Jewish ethnic identity. Some have argued that the Holocaust provided Jews with a rationale for their ethnic distinction at a time when other minorities were asserting their own.[26][27][28]

Politics

Main article:
Jewish views and involvement in US politics
Jewish Vote in Presidential Elections since 1916[29]
Election
year 		Candidate of the
Democratic Party 		% of
Jewish vote 		Result
1916
Woodrow Wilson
 55 Won
1920 James M. Cox 19 Lost
1924 John W. Davis 51 Lost
1928
Al Smith
 72 Lost
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt 82 Won
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt 85 Won
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt 90 Won
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt 90 Won
1948
Harry Truman
 75 Won
1952 Adlai Stevenson 64 Lost
1956 Adlai Stevenson 60 Lost
1960 John F. Kennedy 82 Won
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson 90 Won
1968 Hubert Humphrey 81 Lost
1972 George McGovern 65 Lost
1976 Jimmy Carter 71 Won
1980 Jimmy Carter 45 Lost
1984 Walter Mondale 67 Lost
1988 Michael Dukakis 64 Lost
1992 Bill Clinton 80 Won
1996 Bill Clinton 78 Won
2000 Al Gore 79 Lost
2004 John Kerry 76 Lost
2008 Barack Obama 78 Won
2012 Barack Obama 68 Won
2016 Hillary Clinton 71[30] Lost

In

Civil Rights Movement. By the mid-1960s, however, the Black Power movement caused a growing separation between blacks and Jews, though both groups remained solidly in the Democratic camp.[32]

While earlier Jewish immigrants from Germany tended to be politically conservative, the wave of Jews from Eastern Europe starting in the early 1880s, were generally more liberal or left wing and became the political majority.

American labor movement and helped to found unions that played a major role in left wing politics and, after 1936, in Democratic Party politics.[33]

Although American Jews generally leaned Republican in the second half of the 19th century, the majority has voted Democratic since at least 1916, when they voted 55% for Woodrow Wilson.[29]

With the election of

Progressive Party.[29] As a result of lobbying, and hoping to better compete for the Jewish vote, both major party platforms had included a pro-Zionist plank since 1944,[34][35]
and supported the creation of a Jewish state; it had little apparent effect however, with 90% still voting other-than Republican. In every election since, except for 1980, no Democratic presidential candidate has won with less than 67% of the Jewish vote. (In 1980, Carter won 45% of the Jewish vote. See below.)

During the 1952 and 1956 elections, they voted 60% or more for Democrat

Lyndon Johnson, over his Republican opponent, arch-conservative Barry Goldwater. Hubert Humphrey garnered 81% of the Jewish vote in the 1968 elections, in his losing bid for president against Richard Nixon.[29]

During the Nixon re-election campaign of 1972, Jewish voters were apprehensive about George McGovern and only favored the Democrat by 65%, while Nixon more than doubled Republican Jewish support to 35%. In the election of 1976, Jewish voters supported Democrat Jimmy Carter by 71% over incumbent president Gerald Ford's 27%, but during the Carter re-election campaign of 1980, Jewish voters greatly abandoned the Democrat, with only 45% support, while Republican winner, Ronald Reagan, garnered 39%, and 14% went to independent (former Republican) John Anderson.[29][36] Many American Jews disagreed with the Middle East policies of the Carter administration.[citation needed]

During the Reagan re-election campaign of 1984, the Republican retained 31% of the Jewish vote, while 67% voted for Democrat

Robert Dole and 3% for Perot.[29][36]

In the

2000 presidential election, Joe Lieberman was the first American Jew to run for national office on a major party ticket when he was chosen as Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore's vice-presidential nominee. The elections of 2000 and 2004 saw continued Jewish support for Democrats Al Gore and John Kerry, a Catholic, remain in the high- to mid-70% range, while Republican George W. Bush's re-election in 2004 saw Jewish support rise from 19% to 24%.[36][37]

In the

African-American to be elected president.[38] Additionally, 83% of Jews voted for Obama compared to just 34% of white Protestants and 47% of white Catholics, though 67% of those identifying with another religion and 71% identifying with no religion also voted Obama.[39]

In the February

2016 New Hampshire Democratic Primary, Bernie Sanders became the first Jewish candidate to win a state's Presidential primary election.[40]

As American Jews have progressed economically over time, some commentators[citation needed] have wondered why Jews remain so firmly Democratic and have not shifted political allegiances to the center or right in the way other groups who have advanced economically, such as Hispanics and Arab-Americans, have.[41]

For congressional and senate races, since 1968, American Jews have voted about 70–80% for Democrats;[42] this support increased to 87% for Democratic House candidates during the 2006 elections.[43]

David Levy Yulee

The first American Jew to serve in the Senate was David Levy Yulee, who was Florida's first Senator, serving 1845–1851 and again 1855–1861.

In the 114th Congress, there are 10 Jews

run for President but returned to the Senate as an Independent.[45]

In the 114th Congress, there are 19 Jewish U.S. Representatives.

Gabrielle Giffords
resigned during the 112th Congress.

As of January 2014[update], there are five openly gay men serving in Congress and two are Jewish: Jared Polis of Colorado and David Cicilline of Rhode Island.

In November 2008, Cantor was elected as the

House Majority Leader
. He served as Majority Leader until 2014, when he resigned shortly after his loss in the Republican primary election for his House seat.

Participation in civil rights movements

Members of the American Jewish community have included prominent participants in

feminist movements. A number of American Jews have also been active figures in the struggle for gay rights in America
.

Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress, stated the following when he spoke from the podium at the Lincoln Memorial during the famous March on Washington on August 28, 1963: "As Jews we bring to this great demonstration, in which thousands of us proudly participate, a twofold experience—one of the spirit and one of our history. ... From our Jewish historic experience of three and a half thousand years we say: Our ancient history began with slavery and the yearning for freedom. During the Middle Ages my people lived for a thousand years in the ghettos of Europe. ... It is for these reasons that it is not merely sympathy and compassion for the black people of America that motivates us. It is, above all and beyond all such sympathies and emotions, a sense of complete identification and solidarity born of our own painful historic experience."[49][50]

The Holocaust

During the World War II period, the American Jewish community was bitterly and deeply divided and was unable to form a common front. Most Jews from Eastern Europe favored Zionism, which saw a return to their historical homeland as the only solution; this had the effect of diverting attention from the persecution of Jews in Germany. German Jews were alarmed at the Nazis but were disdainful of Zionism. Proponents of a Jewish state and Jewish army agitated, but many leaders were so fearful of an antisemitic backlash inside the U.S. that they demanded that all Jews keep a low public profile. One important development was the sudden conversion of most (but not all) Jewish leaders to Zionism late in the war.[51] The Holocaust was largely ignored by American media as it was happening. Reporters and editors largely did not believe the atrocity stories coming out of Europe.[52]

The Holocaust had a profound impact on the community in the United States, especially after 1960, as Jews tried to comprehend what had happened, and especially to commemorate and grapple with it when looking to the future. Abraham Joshua Heschel summarized this dilemma when he attempted to understand Auschwitz: "To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray [of] God's radiance in the jungles of history."[53]

International affairs

Louis Brandeis

Balfour Declaration of 1917.[54] Jewish Americans organized large-scale boycotts of German merchandise during the 1930s to protest Nazi rule in Germany. Franklin D. Roosevelt's leftist domestic policies received strong Jewish support in the 1930s and 1940s, as did his anti-Nazi foreign policy and his promotion of the United Nations. Support for political Zionism in this period, although growing in influence, remained a distinctly minority opinion among German Jews until about 1944–45, when the early rumors and reports of the systematic mass murder of the Jews in German-occupied Europe became publicly known with the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps. The founding of Israel
in 1948 made the Middle East a center of attention; the recognition of Israel by the American government (following objections by American isolationists) was an indication of both its intrinsic support and influence.

This attention initially was based on a natural and religious affinity toward and support for Israel in the Jewish community. The attention is also because of the ensuing and unresolved conflicts regarding the founding of Israel and Zionism itself. A lively internal debate commenced, following the

Oslo Accord worked through Americans for Peace Now (APN), Israel Policy Forum (IPF) and other groups friendly to the Labour government in Israel. They tried to assure Congress that American Jewry was behind the Accord and defended the efforts of the administration to help the fledgling Palestinian Authority
(PA), including promises of financial aid. In a battle for public opinion, IPF commissioned a number of polls showing widespread support for Oslo among the community.

In opposition to Oslo, an alliance of conservative groups, such as the

Consul General in New York and an ardent supporter of that version of a peace process.[58]

Demographics

Percentage of Jewish population in the United States, 2000.

The Jewish population of the United States is either the largest in the world, or second to that of Israel, depending on the sources and methods used to measure it.

Precise population figures vary depending on whether Jews are accounted for based on

Jewish Agency, for the year 2007 Israel is home to 5.4 million Jews (40.9% of the world's Jewish population), while the United States contained 5.3 million (40.2%).[59]

In 2012, demographers estimated the core American Jewish population (including religious and non-religious) to be 5,425,000 (or 1.73% of the US population in 2012), citing methodological failures in the previous higher estimates.[60] Other sources say the number is around 6.5 million.

The American Jewish Yearbook population survey had placed the number of American Jews at 6.4 million, or approximately 2.1% of the total population. This figure is significantly higher than the previous large scale survey estimate, conducted by the 2000–2001 National Jewish Population estimates, which estimated 5.2 million Jews. A 2007 study released by the

Steinhardt Social Research Institute (SSRI) at Brandeis University presents evidence to suggest that both of these figures may be underestimations with a potential 7.0–7.4 million Americans of Jewish descent.[61] Those higher estimates were however arrived at by including all non-Jewish family members and household members, rather than surveyed individuals.[60]

The population of Americans of Jewish descent is demographically characterized by an aging population composition and low fertility rates significantly below generational replacement.[60]

The Ashkenazi Jews, who are now the vast majority of American Jews, settled first in and around New York City; in recent decades many have moved to Miami, Los Angeles and other large metropolitan areas in the South and West. The metropolitan areas of New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami contain nearly one quarter of the world's Jews.[62]

The National Jewish Population Survey of 1990 asked 4.5 million adult Jews to identify their denomination. The national total showed 38% were affiliated with the Reform tradition, 35% were Conservative, 6% were Orthodox, 1% were Reconstructionists, 10% linked themselves to some other tradition, and 10% said they are "just Jewish."[63] In 2013, Pew Research's Jewish population survey found that 35% of American Jews were Reform, 18% were Conservative, 10% were Orthodox, 6% belonged to other sects, and 30% did not identify with a denomination.[64]

Location

According to a study published by demographers and sociologists Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky, the distribution of the Jewish population in 2015 is as follows:[65]

State/territory American Jews (2015)[65] Percentage[a]
 Alabama 8,800 0.18%
 Alaska 6,175 0.84%
 Arizona 106,300 1.58%
 Arkansas 1,725 0.06%
 California 1,232,690 3.18%
 Colorado 103,020 1.92%
 Connecticut 117,850 3.28%
 Delaware 15,100 1.61%
 District of Columbia 28,000 4.25%
 Florida 651,510 3.28%
Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia 128,420 1.27%
 Hawaii 7,280 0.51%
 Idaho 2,225 0.14%
 Illinois 297,435 2.31%
 Indiana 17,220 0.26%
 Iowa 6,170 0.20%
 Kansas 17,425 0.60%
 Kentucky 11,300 0.26%
 Louisiana 10,675 0.23%
 Maine 13,890 1.04%
 Maryland 238,200 3.99%
 Massachusetts 274,680 4.07%
 Michigan 83,155 0.84%
 Minnesota 45,750 0.84%
 Mississippi 1,575 0.05%
 Missouri 64,275 1.06%
 Montana 1,350 0.13%
 Nebraska 6,150 0.33%
 Nevada 76,300 2.69%
 New Hampshire 10,120 0.76%
 New Jersey 523,950 5.86%
 New Mexico 12,725 0.61%
 New York 1,759,570 8.91%
 North Carolina 35,435 0.36%
 North Dakota 400 0.05%
 Ohio 147,715 1.27%
 Oklahoma 4,625 0.12%
 Oregon 40,650 1.02%
 Pennsylvania 293,240 2.29%
 Rhode Island 18,750 1.78%
 South Carolina 13,820 0.29%
 South Dakota 250 0.03%
 Tennessee 19,600 0.30%
 Texas 158,505 0.59%
 Utah 5,650 0.19%
 Vermont 5,985 0.96%
 Virginia 95,695 1.15%
 Washington 72,085 1.02%
 West Virginia 2,310 0.12%
 Wisconsin 33,055 0.57%
 Wyoming 1,150 0.20%
Total 6,829,930 2.14%

Significant Jewish population centers

Metropolitan areas with largest Jewish populations (2015)
Rank Metro area Number of Jews
(WJC)[62] (ARDA)[66] (WJC) (ASARB)
1 1 New York City 1,750,000 2,028,200
2 3
Miami
 535,000 337,000
3 2
Los Angeles
 490,000 662,450
4 4 Philadelphia 254,000 285,950
5 6 Chicago 248,000 265,400
6 8 San Francisco 210,000 218,700
7 7 Boston 208,000 261,100
8 5
Baltimore–Washington
 165,000 276,445
The New York City metropolitan area is home to by far the largest Jewish-American population.
States with the highest proportion of Jews (2015)[62]
Rank State Percent Jewish
1 New York 8.91
2 New Jersey 5.86
3 District of Columbia 4.25
4 Massachusetts 4.07
5 Maryland 3.99
6 Florida 3.28
7 Connecticut 3.28
8 California 3.18
9 Nevada 2.69
10 Illinois 2.31
11 Pennsylvania 2.29

Although the

Greater Phoenix area was home to about 83,000 Jews in 2002, and has been rapidly growing.[67] The greatest Jewish population on a per-capita basis for incorporated areas in the U.S. is Kiryas Joel Village, New York (greater than 93% based on language spoken in home),[68] City of Beverly Hills, California (61%),[69] Lakewood Township, New Jersey (59%),[70]
two incorporated areas, Kiryas Joel and Lakewood, have a high concentration of ultra-Orthodox Jews and one incorporated area, Beverly Hills, having a high concentration of non-Orthodox Jews.

The phenomenon of Israeli migration to the U.S. is often termed

Israeli immigrant community in America is less widespread. The significant Israeli immigrant communities in the United States are in the New York City metropolitan area, Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago.[71]

According to the 2001 undertaking of the National Jewish Population Survey, 4.3 million American Jews have some sort of strong connection to the Jewish community, whether religious or cultural.

Distribution of Jewish Americans

According to the North American Jewish Data Bank[73] the 100 counties and independent cities as of 2011 with the largest Jewish communities, based by percentage of total population, were:

Assimilation and population changes

These parallel themes have facilitated the extraordinary economic, political, and social success of the American Jewish community, but also have contributed to widespread cultural assimilation.[74] More recently however, the propriety and degree of assimilation has also become a significant and controversial issue within the modern American Jewish community, with both political and religious skeptics.[75]

While not all Jews disapprove of

intermarriage, many members of the Jewish community have become concerned that the high rate of interfaith marriage will result in the eventual disappearance of the American Jewish community. Intermarriage rates have risen from roughly 6% in 1950 and 25% in 1974,[76] to approximately 40–50% in the year 2000.[77] By 2013, the intermarriage rate had risen to 71% for non-Orthodox Jews.[78]
This, in combination with the comparatively low birthrate in the Jewish community, has led to a 5% decline in the Jewish population of the United States in the 1990s. In addition to this, when compared with the general American population, the American Jewish community is slightly older.

A third of intermarried couples provide their children with a Jewish upbringing, and doing so is more common among intermarried families raising their children in areas with high Jewish populations.[79] The Boston area, for example, is exceptional in that an estimated 60% percent of children of intermarriages are being raised Jewish, meaning that intermarriage would actually be contributing to a net increase in the number of Jews.[80] As well, some children raised through intermarriage rediscover and embrace their Jewish roots when they themselves marry and have children.

In contrast to the ongoing trends of assimilation, some communities within American Jewry, such as

Haredi) Jews in USA (7.2%).[82] The figure for 2006 is estimated at 468,000 (9.4%).[82] Data from the Pew Center shows that as of 2013, 27% of American Jews under the age of 18 live in Orthodox households, a dramatic increase from Jews aged 18 to 29, only 11% of whom are Orthodox. The UJA-Federation of New York reports that 60% of Jewish children in the New York City area live in Orthodox homes. In addition to economizing and sharing, Orthodox communities depend on government aid to support their high birth rate and large families. The Hasidic village of New Square, New York receives Section 8 housing subsidies at a higher rate than the rest of the region, and half of the population in the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel, New York receive food stamps, while a third receive Medicaid.[83]

About half of the American Jews are considered to be religious. Out of this 2,831,000 religious Jewish population, 92% are non-Hispanic white, 5% Hispanic (Most commonly from Argentina, Venezuela, or Cuba), 1% Asian (Mostly Bukharian and Persian Jews), 1% Black and 1% Other (mixed race etc.). Almost this many non-religious Jews exist in United States, the proportion of Whites being higher than that among the religious population.[84]

Subgroups

Ancestry 2000 2000 (% of US population)
Ashkenazi Jews 5–6 million[85] negligible (no data)
Sephardi Jews
 200,000–300,000 negligible (no data)
Mizrahi Jews 250,000 negligible (no data)
Italqim
 200,000 negligible (no data)
Bukharan Jews 50,000–60,000 negligible (no data)
Mountain Jews 10,000 to 40,000 negligible (no data)
Turkish Jews
 8,000 negligible (no data)
Romaniote Jews 6,500 negligible (no data)
Beta Israel 1,000[86] negligible (no data)
TOTAL 5,425,000–8,300,000[87] (1.7–2.6% of the U.S. population)

American Jews and race

The overwhelming majority of American Jews view themselves as white. In 2013, the Pew Research Center's Portrait of Jewish Americans found that more than 90% of Jews who responded to their survey described themselves as non-Hispanic whites, 2% as black, 3% as Hispanic, and 2% of other racial or ethnic backgrounds.[88] Judith Rosenbaum, writing in Jewish Women's Archive, writes that "many American Jews retain an ambivalence about whiteness".[89]

African American Jews and other American Jews of African descent

Main article:
Jewish African-Americans

The American Jewish community includes African American Jews and other American

Jewish atheists or ethnic Jews
.

Notable African-American Jews include

Sammy Davis, Jr., Rashida Jones, Yaphet Kotto, Jordan Farmar, Taylor Mays, and rabbis Capers Funnye and Alysa Stanton
.

Relations between American Jews of African descent and other Jewish Americans are generally cordial.[

African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, emigrated to Israel and was granted permanent residency status there.[citation needed
]

Socioeconomics

Main article: Model minority

Education plays a major role as a part of Jewish identity; as Jewish culture puts a special premium on it and stresses the importance of cultivation of intellectual pursuits, scholarship and learning, American Jews as a group tend to be better educated and earn more than Americans as a whole.[92][93][94][95][96] Jewish Americans also have an average of 14.7 years of schooling making them the most highly educated of all major religious groups in the United States.[97][98]

Forty-four percent (55% of

Reform Jews) of American Jews have, the second highest of any religious group after American Hindus.[99][101][102] 75% of American Jews have achieved some form of post-secondary education if two-year vocational and community college diplomas and certificates are also included.[103][104][105][106]

31% of American Jews hold a graduate degree, this figure is compared with the general American population where 11% of Americans hold a graduate degree.[99] White collar professional jobs have been attractive to Jews and much of the community tend to take up professional white collar careers requiring tertiary education involving formal credentials where the respectability and reputability of professional jobs is highly prized within Jewish culture. While 46% of Americans work in professional and managerial jobs, 61% of American Jews work as professionals, many of whom are highly educated, salaried professionals whose work is largely self-directed in management, professional, and related occupations such as engineering, science, medicine, investment banking, finance, law, and academia.[107]

Much of the Jewish American community lead middle class lifestyles.[108] While the median household net worth of the typical American family is $99,500, among American Jews the figure is $443,000.[109][110] In addition, the median Jewish American income is estimated to be in the range of $97,000 to $98,000, nearly twice as high the American national median.[111] Either of these two statistics may be confounded by the fact that the Jewish population is on average older than other religious groups in the country, with 51% of polled adults over the age of 50 compared to 41% nationally.[101] Older people tend to both have higher income and be more highly educated.

While the median income of Jewish Americans is high, there are still small pockets of poverty. In the New York area, there are approximately 560,000 Jews living in poor or near-poor households, representing about 20% of the New York metropolitan Jewish community. Most affected are children, the elderly, immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Orthodox families.[112]

According to analysis by

Gallup, American Jews have the highest well-being of any ethnic or religious group in America.[113][114]

The great majority of school-age Jewish students attend public schools, although Jewish day schools and yeshivas are to be found throughout the country. Jewish cultural studies and Hebrew language instruction is also commonly offered at synagogues in the form of supplementary Hebrew schools or Sunday schools.

From the early 1900s until the 1950s, quota systems were imposed at elite colleges and universities particularly in the Northeast, as a response to the growing number of children of recent Jewish immigrants; these limited the number of Jewish students accepted, and greatly reduced their previous attendance. Jewish enrollment at Cornell's School of Medicine fell from 40% to 4% between the world wars, and Harvard's fell from 30% to 4%.[115] Before 1945, only a few Jewish professors were permitted as instructors at elite universities. In 1941, for example, antisemitism drove Milton Friedman from a non-tenured assistant professorship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[116] Harry Levin became the first Jewish full professor in the Harvard English department in 1943, but the Economics department decided not to hire Paul Samuelson in 1948. Harvard hired its first Jewish biochemists in 1954.[117]

Today, American Jews no longer face the discrimination in higher education that they did in the past, particularly in the

final clubs at Harvard were Jewish.[116] Rick Levin has been president of Yale University since 1993, Judith Rodin was president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994 to 2004 (and is currently president of the Rockefeller Foundation), Paul Samuelson's nephew, Lawrence Summers, was president of Harvard University from 2001 until 2006, and Harold Shapiro was president of Princeton University
from 1992 until 2000.

American Jews at American higher education institutions

Public Universities[118]
Rank University Enrollment for Jewish Students (est.)[119] % of Student body Undergraduate Enrollment
1 Binghamton University 3,200 29%[120] 11,000
1 University of Maryland, College Park 6,500 26% 25,857
2 University of Florida 5,400 15% 34,612
3 Rutgers University 5,000 13% 37,072
4 University of Central Florida 4,500 11% 39,545
5
Indiana University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
 4,000 16%
10%
10%
14%		 25,555
36,612
32,000
28,462
6
University of Texas, Austin
 3,800 14%
9%
10%		 26,854
40,474
36,878
7
University at Albany
Florida International University
 3,500 31%
9%		 12,013
39,500
Private Universities
Rank University Enrollment of Jewish Student (est.)![119] % of Student body Undergraduate Enrollment
1 New York University 6,500 33% 19,401
2 Boston University 4,000 20% 15,981
3 Cornell University 3,500 25% 13,515
4 University of Miami 3,100 22% 14,000
5
The George Washington University
University of Pennsylvania
Yeshiva University
 2,800 31%
30%
99%		 10,394
9,718
2,803
8 Syracuse University 2,500 20% 12,500
9 Columbia University
Emory University
Harvard University
Tulane University		 2,000 29%
30%
30%
30%		 6,819
6,510
6,715
6,533
13 Brandeis University[121]
Northwestern University[121]
Washington University in St. Louis[121]		 1,800 56%
23%
29%		 3,158
7,826
6,097

There are an estimated 4,000 Jewish students at the University of California, Berkeley.[122]

Religion

Jewishness in the United States is considered an

ethnic identity as well as a religious one. See Ethnoreligious group
.

US military and civilian personnel light Menorahs in observance of Hanukkah

Observances and engagement

Jewish religious practice in America is quite varied. Among the 4.3 million American Jews described as "strongly connected" to Judaism, over 80% report some sort of active engagement with Judaism,[123] ranging from attendance at daily prayer services on one end of the spectrum to as little as attendance Passover Seders or lighting Hanukkah candles on the other.

A 2003

Harris Poll found that 16% of American Jews go to the synagogue at least once a month, 42% go less frequently but at least once a year, and 42% go less frequently than once a year.[124]

The survey found that of the 4.3 million strongly connected Jews, 46% belong to a synagogue. Among those households who belong to a synagogue, 38% are members of

Midwest
are generally more observant than Jews in the South or West. Reflecting a trend also observed among other religious groups, Jews in the Northwestern United States are typically the least observant.

In recent years, there has been a noticeable trend of secular American Jews returning to a more observant, in most cases, Orthodox, lifestyle. Such Jews are called baalei teshuva ("returners", see also Repentance in Judaism).[citation needed]

The 2008

American Religious Identification Survey found that around 3.4 million American Jews call themselves religious – out of a general Jewish population of about 5.4 million. The number of Jews who identify themselves as only culturally Jewish has risen from 20% in 1990 to 37% in 2008, according to the study. In the same period, the number of all US adults who said they had no religion rose from 8% to 15%. Jews are more likely to be secular than Americans in general, the researchers said. About half of all US Jews – including those who consider themselves religiously observant – claim in the survey that they have a secular worldview and see no contradiction between that outlook and their faith, according to the study's authors. Researchers attribute the trends among American Jews to the high rate of intermarriage and "disaffection from Judaism" in the United States.[125]

About one-sixth of American Jews maintain

kosher dietary standards.[126]

Religious beliefs

American Jews are more likely to be atheist or agnostic than most Americans, especially so compared with Protestants or Catholics. A 2003 poll found that while 79% of Americans believe in God, only 48% of American Jews do, compared with 79% and 90% for Catholics and Protestants respectively. While 66% of Americans said they were "absolutely certain" of God's existence, 24% of American Jews said the same. And though 9% of Americans believe there is no God (8% Catholic and 4% Protestant), 19% of American Jews believe God does not exist.[124]

A 2009 Harris Poll showed American Jews as the religious group most accepting of evolution, with 80% believing in evolution, compared to 51% for Catholics, 32% for Protestants, and 16% of Born-again Christians.[127] They were also less likely to believe in supernatural phenomena such as miracles, angels, or heaven.

Buddhism

Main article: Jewish Buddhist

Jews are overrepresented in

Coen Brothers have been influenced by Buddhism as well for a time.[133] Founder of the New York City Marathon, Fred Lebow
, dabbled in Buddhism for a brief period.

Contemporary politics

Jews earn like

Puerto Ricans
.

—Milton Himmelfarb[134]

Today, American Jews are a distinctive and influential group in the nation's politics. Jeffrey S. Helmreich writes that the ability of American Jews to effect this through political or financial clout is overestimated,[135] that the primary influence lies in the group's voting patterns.[36]

"Jews have devoted themselves to politics with almost religious fervor," writes Mitchell Bard, who adds that Jews have the highest percentage voter turnout of any ethnic group (84% reported being registered to vote[136]).

Though the majority (60–70%) of the country's Jews identify as Democratic, Jews span the political spectrum, with those at higher levels of observance being far more likely to vote Republican than their less observant and secular counterparts.[137]

Owing to high Democratic identification in the

2008 United States Presidential Election, 78% of Jews voted for Democrat Barack Obama versus 21% for Republican John McCain, despite Republican attempts to connect Obama to Muslim and pro-Palestinian causes.[138] It has been suggested that running mate Sarah Palin's conservative views on social issues may have nudged Jews away from the McCain–Palin ticket.[36][138] In the 2012 United States presidential election, 69% of Jews voted for the Democratic incumbent President Obama.[139]

Foreign policy

American Jews have displayed a very strong interest in foreign affairs, especially regarding Germany in the 1930s, and Israel since 1945.

exit polls, which are more reliable than pre-election polls, and the numbers are clear: Jews vote overwhelmingly Democratic,"[143]
an assertion confirmed by the most recent presidential election results.

Though some critics charged that Jewish interests were partially responsible for the push to war with Iraq, Jewish Americans were actually more strongly opposed to the

Iraq war from its onset than any other religious group, or even most Americans. The greater opposition to the war was not simply a result of high Democratic identification among U.S. Jews, as Jews of all political persuasions were more likely to oppose the war than non-Jews who shared the same political leanings.[144][145]

Domestic issues

A 2013 Pew Research Center survey suggests that American Jews' views on domestic politics are intertwined with the community's self-definition as a persecuted minority who benefited from the liberties and societal shifts in the United States and feel obligated to help other minorities enjoy the same benefits. American Jews across age and gender lines tend to vote for and support politicians and policies supported by the Democratic Party. On the other hand, Orthodox American Jews have domestic political views that are more similar to their religious Christian neighbors.[146]

American Jews are largely supportive of

Proposition 8, the bill that banned gay marriage in California. No other ethnic or religious group voted as strongly against it.[151]

In considering the trade-off between the economy and environmental protection, American Jews were significantly more likely than other religious groups (excepting Buddhism) to favor stronger environmental protection.[152]

Jews in America also overwhelmingly oppose current United States marijuana policy. Eighty-six percent of Jewish Americans opposed arresting nonviolent marijuana smokers, compared to 61% for the population at large and 68% of all Democrats. Additionally, 85% of Jews in the United States opposed using federal law enforcement to close patient cooperatives for medical marijuana in states where medical marijuana is legal, compared to 67% of the population at large and 73% of Democrats.[153]

Jewish American culture

See also: Secular Jewish culture

Since the time of the last major wave of Jewish immigration to America (over 2,000,000 Jews from Eastern Europe who arrived between 1890 and 1924), Jewish secular culture in the United States has become integrated in almost every important way with the broader American culture. Many aspects of Jewish American culture have, in turn, become part of the wider culture of the United States.

Language

Jewish languages in the US
Year Hebrew Yiddish
1910a
—
1,051,767[citation needed]
1920a
—
1,091,820[citation needed]
1930a
—
1,222,658[citation needed]
1940a
—
924,440[citation needed]
1960a
38,346
503,605[citation needed]
1970a
36,112
438,116[citation needed]
1980[154]
315,953
1990[155]
144,292
213,064
2000[156]
195,374
178,945
^a Foreign-born population only[157]

Most American Jews today are native English speakers. A variety of other languages are still spoken within some American Jewish communities, communities that are representative of the various Jewish ethnic divisions from around the world that have come together to make up America's Jewish population.

Many of America's

Yinglish
.)

The

Judeo-Persian) in the home and synagogue. They also support their own Persian language newspapers. Persian Jews also reside in eastern parts of New York such as Kew Gardens and Great Neck, Long Island
.

Many recent Jewish immigrants from the

Richmond District
of San Francisco where Russian markets stand alongside the numerous Asian businesses.

A typical poster-hung wall in Jewish Brooklyn, New York

American

Forest Hills in the New York City borough of Queens is home to 108th Street, which is called by some "Bukharian Broadway",[159] a reference to the many stores and restaurants found on and around the street that have Bukharian influences. Many Bukharians are also represented in parts of Arizona, Miami, Florida, and areas of Southern California
such as San Diego.

Tanakh (Bible) and Siddur (prayerbook). Modern Hebrew is also the primary official language of the modern State of Israel
, which further encourages many to learn it as a second language. Some recent Israeli immigrants to America speak Hebrew as their primary language.

There are a diversity of Hispanic Jews living in America. The oldest community is that of the Sephardic Jews of New Netherland. Their ancestors had fled Spain or Portugal during the Inquisition for the Netherlands, and then came to New Netherland. Though there is dispute over whether they should be considered Hispanic. Some Hispanic Jews, particularly in Miami and Los Angeles, immigrated from Latin America. The largest groups are those that fled Cuba after the communist revolution (known as Jewbans), and Argentine Jews. Argentina is the Latin American country with the largest Jewish population. There are a large number of synagogues in the Miami area that give services in Spanish. The last Hispanic Jewish community would be those that recently came from Portugal or Spain, after Spain and Portugal granted citizenship to the descendants of Jews who fled during the Inquisition. All of the above listed Hispanic Jewish groups speak either Spanish or Ladino.

Jewish American literature

Main article: Jewish American literature

Although American Jews have contributed greatly to American arts overall, there remains a distinctly Jewish American literature. Jewish American literature often explores the experience of being a Jew in America, and the conflicting pulls of secular society and history.

Popular culture

Main articles: List of Jewish actors, List of Jewish American authors, List of Jewish American entertainers, List of Jewish musicians, List of Jewish American sportspeople, List of Jewish American visual artists, and List of Jewish American photographers

Yiddish theater was very well attended, and provided a training ground for performers and producers who moved to Hollywood in the 1920s. Many of the early Hollywood moguls and pioneers were Jewish.[160][161] They played roles in the development of radio and television networks, typified by William S. Paley who ran CBS.[162] Stephen J. Whitfield states that "The Sarnoff family was long dominant at NBC."[163]

Many individual Jews have made significant contributions to American popular culture.[164] There have been many Jewish American actors and performers, ranging from early 1900s actors, to classic Hollywood film stars, and culminating in many currently known actors. The field of American comedy includes many Jews. The legacy also includes songwriters and authors, for example the author of the song "Viva Las Vegas" Doc Pomus, or Billy the Kid composer Aaron Copland. Many Jews have been at the forefront of women's issues.

Government and military

Grave of Confederate Jewish soldier near Clinton, Louisiana
Main articles: List of Jewish American politicians and List of Jewish Americans in the military
See also: Military history of Jewish Americans

Since 1845, a total of 34 Jews have served in the Senate, including the 14 present-day senators noted above.

United States Supreme Court
.

The Civil War marked a transition for American Jews. It killed off the antisemitic canard, widespread in Europe, to the effect that Jews are cowardly, preferring to run from war rather than serve alongside their fellow citizens in battle.[165][166]

At least twenty eight American Jews have been awarded the Medal of Honor.

World War II

More than 550,000 Jews served in the

Navy Cross, and about 1600 recipients of the Silver Star. About 50,000 other decorations and awards were given to Jewish military personnel, for a total of 52,000 decorations. During this period, Jews were approximately 3.3 percent of the total U.S. population but constituted about 4.23 percent of the U.S. armed forces. About 60 percent of all Jewish physicians in the United States under 45 years of age were in service as military physicians and medics.[167]

Many Jewish physicists, including project lead J. Robert Oppenheimer, were involved in the Manhattan Project, the secret World War II effort to develop the atomic bomb. Many of these were refugees from Nazi Germany or from antisemitic persecution elsewhere in Europe.

American folk music

Jews have been involved in the American folk music scene since the late 19th century;[168] these tended to be refugees from Central and Eastern Europe, and significantly more economically disadvantaged than their established Western European and Sephardic coreligionists.[169] Historians see it as a legacy of the secular Yiddish theater, cantorial traditions and a desire to assimilate. By the 1940s Jews had become established in the American folk music scene.

Examples of the major impact Jews have had in the American folk music arena include, but are not limited to:

Smithsonian
.

Three of the four creators of the Newport Folk Festival, Wein, Bikel and Grossman (Seeger is not) were Jewish. Albert Grossman put together Peter, Paul and Mary, of which Yarrow is Jewish. Oscar Brand, from a Canadian Jewish family, has the longest running radio program "Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival" which has been on air consecutively since 1945 from NYC.[170] And is the first American broadcast where the host himself will answer any personal correspondence.

The influential group The Weavers, successor to the Almanac Singers, led by Pete Seeger, had a Jewish manager, and 2 of the 4 members of the group were Jewish (Gilbert and Hellerman). The B-side of "Good Night Irene" had the Hebrew folk song personally chosen for the record by Pete Seeger "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena".

The influential folk music magazine Sing Out! was co-founded and edited by Irwin Silber in 1951, and edited by him until 1967, when the magazine stopped publication for decades. Rolling Stone magazine's first music critic Jon Landau is of German Jewish descent. Izzy Young who created the legendary[171] Folklore Center in NY, and currently the Folklore Centrum near Mariatorget in Södermalm, Sweden, which relates to American and Swedish folk music.[172]

Dave Van Ronk observed that the behind the scenes 1950s folk scene "was at the very least 50 percent Jewish, and they adopted the music as part of their assimilation into the Anglo-American tradition which itself was largely an artificial construct but none the less provided us with some common ground".[173]

Financial services

Jews have been involved in financial services since the colonial era. They received rights to trade fur, from the Dutch and Swedish colonies. British governors honored these rights after taking over. During the Revolutionary War, Haym Solomon helped create America's first semi-central bank, and advised Alexander Hamilton on the building of America's financial system.

American Jews in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries played a major role in developing America's financial services industry, both at investment banks and investment funds.[174] German Jewish bankers began to assume a major role in American finance in the 1830s when government and private borrowing to pay for canals, railroads and other internal improvements increased rapidly and significantly. Men such as August Belmont (Rothschild's agent in New York and a leading Democrat), Philip Speyer, Jacob Schiff (at Kuhn, Loeb & Company), Joseph Seligman, Philip Lehman (of Lehman Brothers), Jules Bache, and Marcus Goldman (of Goldman Sachs) illustrate this financial elite.[175] As was true of their non-Jewish counterparts, family, personal, and business connections, a reputation for honesty and integrity, ability, and a willingness to take calculated risks were essential to recruit capital from widely scattered sources. The families and the firms which they controlled were bound together by religious and social factors, and by the prevalence of intermarriage. These personal ties fulfilled real business functions before the advent of institutional organization in the 20th century.[176][177] Antisemitic elements often falsely targeted them as key players in a supposed Jewish cabal conspiring to dominate the world.[178]

Since the late 20th century, Jews have played a major role in the hedge fund industry, according to Zuckerman (2009).

Carlyle Group,[191] Warburg Pincus,[192] and KKR.[193][194][195]

Federal Reserve

chairmen of the Fed, including the prior chairmen Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan and the current chairwoman Janet Yellen
.

Science, business, and academia

Main articles:
List of Jewish American academics

With to the Jewish penchant to be drawn to white collar professional jobs and having excelled at intellectual pursuits, many Jews have also become been remarkably successful as an entrepreneurial and professional minority in the United States.[108] Jewish culture has a strong tradition, emphasis and respect for money and a deep emphasis on financial acumen, business shrewdness, and entrepreneurial savvy have resulted many Jews to start their own businesses that have become major economic growth engines that shape much of the U.S. economy. Many Jewish family businesses that are passed down from one generation to the next as well as serve as an asset, source of income and layering a strong financial groundwork for the family's overall socioeconomic prosperity.[197][198][199][200][201] Within the Jewish American cultural sphere, Jewish Americans have also developed a strong culture of entrepreneurship as excellence in entrepreneurship and engagement in business and commerce is highly prized in Jewish culture.[202] American Jews have also been drawn to various disciplines within academia such as physics, sociology, economics, psychology, mathematics, philosophy and linguistics (see Secular Jewish culture for some of the causes), and have played a disproportionate role in numerous academic domains. Jewish American intellectuals such as Saul Bellow, Ayn Rand, Noam Chomsky, Thomas Friedman, and Elie Wiesel have made a major impact within mainstream American public life. Of the United States top 200 most influential intellectuals, 50% are fully Jewish with 76% of Jewish Americans overall having at least one Jewish parent.[203][204][205] Of American Nobel Prize winners, 37 percent have been Jewish Americans (18 times the percentage of Jews in the population), as have been 61 percent of the John Bates Clark Medal in economics recipients (thirty-five times the Jewish percentage).[206]

In the business world, while Jewish Americans only constitute less than 2.5 percent of the U.S. population, they occupied 7.7 percent of board seats at various U.S.

corporations.[207] In New York real estate, 18 of the top 20 richest real estate moguls based in New York City are of Jewish extraction.[208] American Jews also have a strong presence in NBA ownership. Of the 30 teams in the NBA, there are 14 Jewish principal owners. Several Jews have served as NBA commissioners including prior NBA commissioner David Stern and current commissioner Adam Silver.[202]

Since many careers in science, business, and academia generally pay well, Jewish Americans also tend to have a higher average income than most Americans. The 2000–2001 National Jewish Population Survey shows that the median income of a Jewish family is $54,000 a year and 34% of Jewish households report income over $75,000 a year.[209]

Notable people

For a more comprehensive list, see Lists of American Jews.

See also

Notes and references

Footnotes

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