Warsaw bans the crucifix from city hall.
(www.rt.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (35)
sorted by:
Maybe. But that is considered a high rate of jewish residence as far as Poland goes. Sources I have seen claim well below 0.1% of poles are jews nationally.
Haven't seen it suggested to be higher anywhere outside of Warsaw either. For instance a polish gov website (https://stat.gov.pl/spisy-powszechne/nsp-2011/) suggests that 0.004% of Poles are jewish. It suggests that muslims, hindus, buddhists, and jews combined are less than 0.1% of the population.
Poland has a population of about 38 million which would make for about 150,000 jews across Poland at the 0.004 rate.
There is more recent data but it is not as well disseminated in that nothing I saw referenced it for specific stats on Polands jewish population in particular. The 2011 data seems to drive most readily available information for randos looking that up in 2024.
I guess that is because you are looking at the religious breakdown. Jews are an (several) ethnicity.
Good point, it's not sensible count out the non-religious ethnic jew populace of a place. Or at least the placea with enough economy to siphon off to prevent a person from being involved in actual labor. I think its safe to count the farming villages at their actual religious jew count (zero lol)
Look, 4 out of the 5 poles I have had the misfortune of interacting with are jews. If you had claimed that 40% of Poles were jews, I'd believe it. If you had claimed that 20% of Poles were jews, that's still pretty believable, but claiming that it's less than a single percent? Get out of here with that bullshit.
Hey I'm not above taking your anecdotes at face value, but it's not like I pulled random tenth percents out of my ass. It's just what Poles reported for religious demo rates.
In the scope of those stats, non-religious tagged in at like 12%, so if we assumed those were all atheistic jews it's over 1/10 which is at least a feasible compromise between your experiences and the 0.004% figure.
The OP was about religious symbols and not shapeshifting, so I figured it was relevant to post the religious demo rates that the Poles released, is all.