How many Jews are there?

By the end of 2023,165438+1October 29th, there were more than 25 million Jews.

After the Jews went to all parts of the world, their languages and customs gradually assimilated with the local aborigines, but they insisted on their own religion to maintain national independence, and they still wrote in their own Hebrew characters. In Italy and Spain, the Jewish language is assimilated, and writing in Hebrew letters is called "Ladino"; The Jewish language in Germany and Poland is Yiddish.

Although the contents of the Old Testament in the Christian Bible are almost the same as those in the Jewish Bible, the Christian New Testament expands the contents of the Old Testament to a certain extent and makes Christianity and Judaism have certain differences.

There are more than 25 million Jews in the world, 5.7 million in the United States, and the rest are distributed around the world. The State of Israel, founded in 1948, is the first Jewish state established in nearly 2000 years after the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome, which artificially revived the official spoken Hebrew. Before the founding of Israel, the proportion of Palestinian Arabs in Palestinian areas was the overwhelming majority, and Jews accounted for 6% in 1948.

There are many Jewish celebrities, and the total Jewish population accounts for only 0.2% of the global population. However, according to statistics, from 190 1 to 2004, 167 Jews or people of Jewish descent won the Nobel Prize, accounting for 22% of the total number of Nobel Prize winners.

Jewish:

Hebrew is the official written language of the Jews. It is not only the standard language of many Jewish classics, but also the daily language used by Jews for centuries. In the 5th century BC, Aramaic, which is similar to Hebrew, began to permeate the daily spoken language of Judea. By the 3rd century BC, some scattered Jews began to use ancient Greek. At present, modern Hebrew is one of the two official languages of the State of Israel.

The first person who successfully revived Hebrew was eliezer bin yehuda, who arrived in Palestine in 188 1 year. This is the first time that Hebrew has been restored as the mother tongue of the Jewish people since the era of Tannak. For most of the16th century, this language was used as the language of religious ceremonies and the written language of Jewish classics. In addition, only a few Jews who live on the Sabbath will use Hebrew as their daily language.

For a long time, Jews all over the world have switched to local languages and developed some special dialects or language branches. Among them, Yiddish is a language used by Ashkenazi Jews scattered in Central Europe, which combines elements of German and Jewish. Ladino is a dialect used by Saifadi Jews in Iberian Peninsula, which is influenced by Spanish.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Jews.