The history of the Jews in Finland goes back to at least the 1700s. Finnish Jews are Jews who are citizens of Finland. The country is home to approximately 1,800 Jews, of which 1,400 live in the Greater Helsinki area and 200 in Turku. Most Jews in Finland have Finnish or Swedish as their mother tongue, and many speak Yiddish, German, Russian and Hebrew. Jews originally came to Finland as Russian soldiers who stayed in Finland in the 19th century after their military service ended (knows as Cantonists). There are Jewish congregations in Helsinki and Turku with their own synagogues built in 1906 and 1912. The Wiborg Synagogue built 1910-1911 was destroyed in air bombings during the first day of the Winter war in 30th November 1939. There has been relatively little antisemitism in Finland.