* The main center of the Jewish world continues to be in the United States where 5,700,000 Jews live. In North and South America the Jewish population totals 6,485,000 and makes up 49.2 percent of the total world Jewish population. The Jewish population in Israel is 4,882,000 (37 percent of the total world Jewish population of 13.2 million people) and Europe is the home of 1,583,000 Jews, about 12 percent of the world's Jewish population. Contrary to previous estimates of a constant yearly decline in world Jewry, during the last two years there has been (according to professor Del
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