Posted on 02/11/2006 4:26:22 PM PST by blam
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I second that motion.
Were they killed off, or exiled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews
After the Iranian Revolution
At the time of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, there were approximately 100,000 Jews living in Iran, the historical center of Persian Jewry. Much of this community has left for friendlier shores, over 85% having moved to either Israel or the United States. At the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, 80,000 still remained in Iran. From then on, Jewish emigration from Iran turned into a mass exodus, reducing the community's population to less than 30,000 today.
Persian Jewish communities in other countries have suffered even greater declines: in Afghanistan, the community numbers only one individual. Most fled the country after the Soviet invasion in 1979. [2] The community in Pakistan, where the state religion is Islam, has dwindled to less than 200, largely due to many being forced to convert to Islam.
Persian Jewish communities in what is now India, on the other hand, have avoided such persecutions. Known as Baghdadi Jews, they have resided for millennia in the Rann of Kutch region as well as Bombay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdadi_Jews
The Baghdadi Jews are one of the main Jewish communities of India.
Despite what their name suggests, the community consists not only of expatriate Mesopotamian Jews, but also Bukharan and Persian Jews. The community developed as a result of Jews fleeing religious persecution in Muslim lands to the northwest of India during the British imperial era.
Unlike other Jewish communities in India whose oral tradition attest to a presence in India going back as long as 2000 years, the Baghdadi communities were established relatively recently (in the past few centuries). While the Baghdadi Jews are known primarily from their presence in India, they also established themselves in trading ports further east, notably in Yangon (Rangoon), Singapore, Melaka, Bangkok, and Shanghai.
"DEAD MAN TALKING"
How long will it be before they're forced to wear the star of David in public and their homes and businesses are burned and vandalized?
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