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British Jews
Total population
277,653 (2021 Census) for English and Welsh Jews, 2021 Northern Irish Census for Northern Irish Jews, and (2011 Census) for Scottish Jews; does not include smaller populations in Northern Ireland and the Crown Dependencies
Core Jewish population (2018):
290,000[1]
Enlarged Jewish population (includes non-Jewish relatives of Jews) (2018):
370,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
London, Greater Manchester, Leeds, Gateshead, Brighton, St Albans, Southend; also Hertsmere, Epping Forest and East Renfrewshire
Languages
Primarily English; also Yiddish, largely spoken by Hassidic Jews; historically Spanish and Portuguese among Sephardim; immigrant languages include or have included Hebrew, Arabic, Russian and French amongst many others
Religion
Judaism or irreligion
Related ethnic groups
Other Jews

British Jews (often referred to collectively as British Jewry or Anglo-Jewry) are British citizens who are Jewish. The number of people who identified as Jews in the United Kingdom rose by just under 4% between 2001 and 2021.

  1. ^ a b DellaPergola, Sergio (2019), "World Jewish Population, 2018", in Dashefsky, Arnold; Sheskin, Ira M. (eds.), American Jewish Year Book 2018, vol. 118, Springer International Publishing, pp. 361–449, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-03907-3_8, ISBN 9783030039066, S2CID 146549764

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