The Jewish Identities of European Jews: What, Why, and How

This report, issued by the European Jewish Demography Unit at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), complements and much expands the publication by the same authors: Jews in Europe at the turn of the Millennium: Population trends and estimates.1 Most of the information in it derives from new processing of the data collected in the Second survey on discrimination and hate crime against Jews in the EU undertaken in 2018 under the sponsorship of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).2 The online survey covered a sample of 16,359 Jews in twelve EU countries (including the United Kingdom, which was still an EU Member State at the time), and whilst it was mainly devoted to uncovering perceptions of antisemitism and discrimination among Jews, the information collected also included a significant array of questions about the demographic, socioeconomic and cultural characteristics of the respondents. The focus of this report is on Jewish identification, to provide an updated profile of the ideational characteristics of the more than one million Jews who currently live in the European Union and the UK.