If you ignore the cringe-worthy opening line of this article
from the Pew Research Center – the Holocaust did far worse than
“decimate” Europe’s Jewish population – you will find some interesting
facts. In a nutshell, Europe’s Jewish population continues to decline.
There are now approximately 1.4 million Jews living in Europe, compared
to 9.5 million in 1939. Only 10 percent of the world’s Jews now live in
Europe, and a mere 0.2 percent of Europeans are Jewish.

And apparently, Europe’s Jewish population will only continue to decline. Thousands of French Jews, for example, are emigrating each year, most commonly to Israel.
A Europe without Jews would be almost without
precedent; the continent has played host to Jewish communities for
millennia. It would also be an immeasurably poorer place, in myriad
ways. We’re talking about the culture that produced Kafka, Freud, and
Stefan Zweig – in addition to the bagel.
The recent horrifying uptick in murderous anti-Semitism (contra our glib president,
it was not a “random” “bunch of folks” who were targeted at that
grocery store in Paris) by radical Islamists may contribute to the
fulfillment of Hitler’s vision of a Europe “free” of Jews. (It’s
striking, when you visit most major European cities today, that you can
identify a synagogue or Jewish school by the presence of police or even
soldiers in front.) You don’t have to be Jewish to recognize this
tragedy.
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