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Jews in New York constitute approximately 13% of the city's population, making it the largest Jewish community in the world after Israel. As of 2014, there were 1.1 million Jews in the five boroughs of New York and 2 million Jews in total Lived in New York State. Jews have migrated to New York since the first Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam in 1654, and the most significant period of their migration was at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, when the Jewish population increased from 80,000 in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920. The large Jewish population has had a significant impact on the culture of New York. After decades of decline, New York's Jewish population has increased greatly in the 21st century due to the high birth rates of the Hasidic and Orthodox communities.