Which country had the largest number of Jews before World War II?

The country with the largest number of Jews before World War II should be the United States.

The first batch of 23 Jews set foot on the North American continent on September 7th, 1654. By 1776, when the United States became independent, there were 2,500 Jewish immigrants.

18 15 After the Napoleonic Wars, the second wave of European immigrants appeared in the United States, mostly German Jews. During the Civil War, there were 6,543.8+0.5 million Jews in the United States and 250,000 Jews in 654.38+0.880.

By the beginning of the 20th century, about 3 million Jews had flooded into the United States, making it the largest third Jewish immigration wave in the United States.

Nazi anti-Semitism brought the fourth wave of Jewish immigrants to the United States. From 1933 to1945,200,000 European Jewish refugees came to the United States, including many elites from all walks of life.

Even without the fourth wave of immigration, there were nearly 4 million Jews in the United States before World War II. At that time, there were only 10 million Jews in the world.

The second place is Poland.

Poland has been one of the most tolerant countries in Europe since the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland in 10 century and the Lithuanian Federation of Poland in 1569. It has one of the largest and most active Jewish communities in the world.

As Poland won its independence in the 20th century, there was an active Jewish community in Poland on the eve of World War II, with a population of over 3.5 million.

In other areas, there are more than 2 million Soviet Union, more than 600,000 German occupied areas (in fact, most of them have fled to Poland), 200,000 British, 300,000 French, 6,543,804 Dutch, 650,000 Romanian and 70,000 Greek. The number of other European countries ranges from a few hundred to tens of thousands, and the rest are widely distributed all over the world.