History of the Jews in New York City
New York City is home to the largest urban Jewish community in the world. As of 2020, the city is home to over 960,000 Jews across the five boroughs, representing approximately 12% of the city's total population, with nearly half residing in Brooklyn. A total of 1.9 million Jews live in the wider New York metropolitan area, comprising roughly one quarter of the American Jewish population. The first recorded Jewish settler was Jacob Barsimson, who arrived in New Amsterdam in August 1654 on a passport from the Dutch West India Company. The first significant group of Jewish settlers came in September 1654 from Recife, Brazil, as refugees fleeing persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition. Following the 1881 assassination of Alexander II of Russia and the resulting surge of antisemitic pogroms in the Russian Empire, the largest wave of Jewish immigration to the United States took place, during which the Jewish population rose from about 80,000 in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920. By 1910, New York...
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