Jewish-Americans
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6,829,000–7,160,000 |
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| In the United States, these metropolitan areas host the largest Jewish American population centers: New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore–Washington | |
 United States |
5.4–8.3 million |
 Israel |
170,000 |
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6,829,000–7,160,000
1.7–2.6% of total U.S. population, 2012
Enlarged population (includes full or partial Jewish ancestry)
American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Americans who are Jews, whether by religion, ethnicity or nationality. The current Jewish community in the United States consists primarily of Ashkenazi Jews, who comprise about 90% of the American Jewish population. Most American Ashkenazim are US-born, with a dwindling number of now elderly earlier immigrants, as well as some more recent foreign-born immigrants.
During the colonial era, prior to the mass immigration of Ashkenazim, Spanish and Portuguese Jews represented the bulk of America's then small Jewish population, and while their descendants are a minority today, they along with an array of other Jewish communities represented the remainder of American Jews, including other more recent Sephardic Jews, Mizrahi Jews, various other ethnically Jewish communities, as well as a smaller number of converts to Judaism. The American Jewish community manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions, encompassing the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance.
Depending on religious definitions and varying population data, the United States has 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.
Jews have been present in what is today the United States of America since the mid-17th century. However, they were small in number, with at most 200 to 300 having arrived by 1700. The majority were Sephardic Jewish immigrants, of Western Sephardic (also known as Spanish and Portuguese Jews) ancestry; until after 1720 when Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe predominated.
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