In the 1st century AD, the Jews revolted against the Romans, Jerusalem was stormed by the Roman army, the temple was demolished, and the Jews were exiled around the world.
In World War II, they were almost exterminated, and in Germany alone, the peak was a few million Jews, and in the end, only more than 10,000 remained.
Zionism
The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 was the first Jewish state to be established in nearly 2,000 years since Rome destroyed Jerusalem, and artificially revived the formal use of the spoken Hebrew language.
How many Jews are there in the world today?
Currently, Jews are divided into three main categories.
1. Israeli Jews
This number is as high as 7 million, mainly because Israel attracted Jewish immigrants after the establishment of the state after World War II.
At the same time, childbearing is encouraged, so that Jews now make up three-quarters, up to 7 million of Israel's population of more than 9 million.
2. American Jews
After Israel, the United States is the largest concentration of Jews, because a large number of Jews from all over the world immigrated to the United States during World War II. It not only helped the US economic development, but also helped the United States establish world financial hegemony and control the world's largest capital.
There are now conservative estimates of 9 million Jews in the United States, more than in Israel.
3. Jews in the diaspora around the world
There are Jews mainly distributed in Europe, Asia, and even the mainland, Iran, Turkey, etc. It is also widely distributed in Oceania, South America and other regions, and this number is conservatively estimated to be about 8 million.
For example, there are also a small number of Jews on the mainland, in fact, during the Han Dynasty, Jews have already come to China, from the Tang and Song dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, Jews have been living in a relatively isolated community, most of them living in Kaifeng. It is said that Jiang Wenli is a Jew, because her grandmother is a Kaifeng Jew, according to the Jews only recognizes maternal inheritance, she is a typical Jew.
To sum up, there are currently about 24 million Jews in the world, which is almost several times more than at the beginning of World War II.