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| | Jewish population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The 20th century saw a large shift in Jewish populations, due mostly to persecution in Eastern Europe followed by the Holocaust, migration to the United States and the creation of Israel and subsequent explusions of Sephardic Jews from the Arab world. |
 | | According to Joseph Jacobs, writing in the Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-1906) [1] (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1044andletter=S), the Pentateuch contains a number of statements as to the number of Jews that left Egypt, the descendants of the seventy sons and grandsons of Jacob who took up their residence in that country. |
 | | Again following Jacobs, at the beginning of the 18th century estimated the total number of European Jews at 1,360,000, but according to a census at the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the Jews of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth numbered 308,500. |
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