American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion. According to a 2020 poll conducted by Pew Research, approximately two thirds of American Jews identify as Ashkenazi, 3% identify as Sephardic, and 1% identify as Mizrahi. An additional 6% identify as some combination of the three categories.
David Levy Yulee
Winston Churchill and Bernard Baruch converse in the back seat of a car in front of Baruch's home.
The New York City metropolitan area is home to by far the largest Jewish American population.
Touro Synagogue, (built 1759) in Newport, Rhode Island, has the oldest still existing synagogue building in the United States
Jewish ethnic divisions refer to many distinctive communities within the world's Jewish population. Although considered a self-identifying ethnicity, there are distinct ethnic subdivisions among Jews, most of which are primarily the result of geographic branching from an originating Israelite population, mixing with local communities, and subsequent independent evolutions.
Painting of a Jewish man from the Ottoman Empire, 1779
Jewish women in Algeria, 1851
The Suleiman ben Pinchas Cohen family of Yemen, circa 1944
Maltese Jews in Valletta, 19th century
