ABSTRACT
These various Jewish populations have had a complex history since the war. In many cases Jewry was reduced to only a fraction of its size before the Holocaust. The Jewish community of Salonika, for example, was 60,000 in 1939 but had only l,500 in the 1980s; Vienna shrank from 200,000 to less than 8,000; Berlin Jewry fell from approximately 175,000 to about 6,000; the Jews in Poland dwindled from 3,300,000 to about 5,000. Yet in other parts of the world Jewish numbers have increased as a result of immigration. In France Sephardic immigrants from the Muslim world swelled the Jewish population and intensified Jewish identification. Britain also welcomed a large number of newcomers after the war which increased the community and added to its cultural development. But it was in the United States particularly that the Jewish community grew in size and importance.
