Canada 404,015 (as of 2021)[1] 1.4% of the Canadian population[2][3][4]
Regions with significant populations
Ontario
272,400
Quebec
125,300
British Columbia
62,120
Alberta
20,000
Manitoba
18,000
Languages
English · French (among Québécois) · Hebrew (as liturgical language, some as mother tongue) · Yiddish (by some as mother tongue and as part of a language revival) · and other languages like Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Polish, German, Moroccan Arabic
Religion
Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Israeli Canadians
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Canadian Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form the fourth largest Jewish community in the world, exceeded only by those in Israel, the United States and France.[1][5][6] As of 2021, Statistics Canada listed 335,295 Jews in Canada.[7][8] This total would account for approximately 1.4% of the Canadian population.
The Jewish community in Canada is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews. Other Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented and include Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and Bene Israel. A number of converts to Judaism make up the Jewish-Canadian community, which manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions and the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance. Though they are a small minority, they have had an open presence in the country since the first Jewish immigrants arrived with Governor Edward Cornwallis to establish Halifax, Nova Scotia (1749).[9]
^DellaPergola, Sergio (2013). Dashefsky, Arnold; Sheskin, Ira (eds.). "World Jewish Population, 2013". Current Jewish Population Reports. Storrs, Connecticut: North American Jewish Data Bank. Archived from [. https://thecjn.ca/podcasts/canadian-jewish-population/ the original] on October 26, 2022. Retrieved October 26, 2022. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
^Shahar, Charles (2011). "The Jewish Population of Canada – 2016 National Household Survey". Berman Jewish Databank. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
^"Basic Demographics of the Canadian Jewish Community". The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. 2011. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
^"Jewish Population of the World". Jewish Virtual Library. 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
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^"The Canadian Jewish Experience". Jcpa.org. October 16, 1975. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
^Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Canada [Country]". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
^"2011 National Household Survey: Data tables: Ethnic Origin". Statistics Canada. 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
^Sheldon Godfrey and Judy Godfrey. Search Out the Land" The Jews and the Growth of Equality in British Colonial America, 1740–1867. McGill Queen's University Press. 1997. pp. 76–77;Bell, Winthrop Pickard. The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia:The History of a piece of arrested British Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961
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