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In the 1940s Jews comprised 3.7% of the US population. Today the population is about 5 million--under 2% of the national total--and shrinking because of small family sizes and intermarriage.  The largest population centers are the metropolitan areas of New York (2.1 million in 2000), [[Los Angeles]] (668,000), [[Miami]] (331,000), [[Philadelphia]] (285,000), [[Chicago]] (265,000) and [[Boston]] (254,000). With the large-scale immigration of [[Jews]] from [[Germany]] in the nineteenth century, Jews established themselves in  many small towns and cities across America. A much larger immigration of Eastern European Jews between 1880-1914  brought a large, poor, traditional Jewish population to [[New York City]]. At [[World War II]] and after a large number of Jewish refugees arrived from Europe; many also arrived from the [[Soviet Union]] after 1970.  

In the 1940s Jews comprised 3.7% of the US population. Today the population is about 5 million--under 2% of the national total--and shrinking because of small family sizes and intermarriage.  The largest population centers are the metropolitan areas of New York (2.1 million in 2000), [[Los Angeles]] (668,000), [[Miami]] (331,000), [[Philadelphia]] (285,000), [[Chicago]] (265,000) and [[Boston]] (254,000). With the large-scale immigration of [[Jews]] from [[Germany]] in the nineteenth century, Jews established themselves in  many small towns and cities across America. A much larger immigration of Eastern European Jews between 1880-1914  brought a large, poor, traditional Jewish population to [[New York City]]. At [[World War II]] and after, a large number of Jewish refugees arrived from Europe; many also arrived from the [[Soviet Union]] after 1970.  

=== New York  ===

=== New York  ===

New York City's Jewish population in 2001 was near 2 million. New York City is the largest single Jewish community in the world (considering, single as "within municipal limits"). First Jewish presence in New York was formed with Jewish (of Dutch ancestry) relocated from Brazil; arround 1900 the Lower East Side was home to a flourishing Jewish community of Germans, Russians and Greeks. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a landmark built in 1863, tells some stories of immigrants.

New York City's Jewish population in 2001 was near 2 million. New York City is the largest single Jewish community in the world (considering, single as "within municipal limits"). First Jewish presence in New York was formed with Jewish (of Dutch ancestry) relocated from Brazil; arround 1900 the Lower East Side was home to a flourishing Jewish community of Germans, Russians and Greeks. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a landmark built in 1863, tells some stories of immigrants.