Hebrew Speakers In The U.S. Grew More Thank Twice The Size Since The 1980s

Sharon Mintz, Sotheby's senior Judaica specialist for books and manuscripts, points to specific areas of the Codex Sassoon during a press preview at Sotheby's on May 08, 2023, in New York City. The codex is the oldest surviving Hebrew Bible or Tanakh as its used today in contrast to the Dead Sea scrolls which are older, but the books are in separate scrolls. The Book is approximately 1000 years old and is estimated to be auctioned at 30-50 Million dollars and that would make it the most valuable historical document to appear in auction. ALEXI ROSENFELD/JNS

Arabic speakers in the United States increased from 215,000 in 1980 to 1.4 million in 2021, while Hebrew speakers more than doubled in that span from 100,000 to 220,000. That’s according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center.

Arabic is now the nation’s seventh most common, non-English language spoken at home, according to Pew, which analyzed Census Bureau data on those aged 5 and older who speak non-English languages at home.