The twentieth century has not been kind to the Jewish race. Besides the Holocaust, Communist repression and the exodus from Arab lands has resulted in the centralization of Jews in the United States and Israel. Israel in fact only surpassed the United States for the world's most Jews.
Of interesting note, the only non-Western countries with significant Jewish populations have experienced significant Europeanization, such as those in Latin America and the Republic of South Africa. The rest of the world either never had a large Jewish population or purged themselves of it.
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| From the Economist |
Of interesting note, the only non-Western countries with significant Jewish populations have experienced significant Europeanization, such as those in Latin America and the Republic of South Africa. The rest of the world either never had a large Jewish population or purged themselves of it.
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You could say, culturally at least, that among the Latin American countries, Argentina and Uruguay are every bit as Western as North America, Europe, or Australia - more so than Brazil, Chile, or Mexico, for example. And among the Latin American countries, it is Argentina and Uruguay that have the largest per-capita Jewish populations!
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