Jewish people
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Summary
Jewish people is an ethnoreligious group[1]. They ranks in the top 2% of ethnoreligious group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (57,826 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Native language: Hebrew[3], English[4], Russian[5], French[6], Yiddish[7], Judaeo-Spanish[8], Judeo-Arabic[9], Jewish languages[10], Biblical Hebrew[11], Aramaic[12]
- Religion or worldview: Judaism[13]
- Country: Israel[14], United States[15], France[16], Canada[17], United Kingdom[18], Russia[19], Argentina[20], Germany[21], Australia[22], Brazil[23]
- Instance of: nation[24], people[25], ethnic group[26]
- Named after: Judah[27]
- Subclass of: Semitic people[28]
- Part of: Semitic people[29]
- Commons category: Jews[30]
- Opposite of: gentile[31]
- Country of origin: Kingdom of Judah[32], Kingdom of Israel[33]
- Has part(s): Ashkenazi Jews[34], Sephardi Jews[35], Yemenite Jews[36], Romaniote Jews[37], Musta'arabi Jews[38], Iranian Jews[39]
- Topic's main category: Category:Jews[40], Category:Jewish people[41]
- Population: 14,606,000[42]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[43], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[44], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[45], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[46], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[47], Jewish Virtual Library[48], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[49], Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Jew[50], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[51], New International Encyclopedia[52], The New Student's Reference Work[53], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[54]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for Jewish people include Jewish Autonomous Oblast[55], an autonomous oblast of Russia[56], in Russia[57], founded in 1934[58]; self-hating Jew[59], a pejorative[60]; and La Juive[61], a dramatico-musical work[62].
Why It Matters
Jewish people has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[63] They is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[64]
Entities named for them include Jewish Autonomous Oblast[55], an autonomous oblast of Russia[56], in Russia[57], founded in 1934[58]; self-hating Jew[59], a pejorative[60]; and La Juive[61], a dramatico-musical work[62].