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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Part of a series on Jewish exodus from the Muslim world Background History of the Jews under Muslim rule Sephardi Mizrahi Yemeni Zionism Arab–Israeli conflict 1948 war Suez Crisis Six-Day War Antisemitism in the Arab world Farhud Aleppo Aden Oujda and Jerada Tripolitania Cairo Baghdad Tripoli ...
The massive emigration of Iraqi Jews was among the most climactic events of the Jewish exodus from the Muslim World. The operation is named after Ezra and Nehemiah , who led groups of Jews from exile in Babylonia to return to Judea in the 5th century BC, as recorded in the books of the Hebrew Bible that bear their names.
Libyan Jews, who numbered approximately 7,000, were subjected to pogroms in which 18 were killed, prompting a mass exodus that left fewer than 100 Jews in Libya. 1968 Thousands of Jews were forced to leave communist Poland because of "anti-Zionist" campaigns during the 1968 Polish political crisis. 1970 Less than 1,000 Jews still lived in Egypt ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Part of a series on Jewish exodus from the Muslim world Background History of the Jews under Muslim rule Sephardi Mizrahi Yemeni Zionism Arab–Israeli conflict 1948 war Suez Crisis Six-Day War Antisemitism in the Arab world Farhud Aleppo Aden Oujda and Jerada Tripolitania Cairo Baghdad Tripoli ...
In 1945, there were between 758,000 and 866,000 Jews living in communities throughout the Arab world. Today, there are fewer than 8,000. In some Arab states, such as Libya , which once had a Jewish population of around 3 percent (similar proportion as that of the United States today), the Jewish community no longer exists; in other Arab ...
World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC) was an international advocacy organization, created in 1975, [1] representing Jewish refugees from Arab countries.The World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries was created to make certain that any "just settlement of the refugee problem" recognizes those Jews who were forced to flee from lands where they had lived for centuries.
Yet, Jewish refugees and immigrants from Arab lands, the Sephardi-Mizrahi, are off the radar. They make up about 56,000 of the 535,000 Jews living in Southeast Florida. In Miami-Dade, 17% of the ...
The Jews of modern France number around 400,000 persons, largely descendants of North African communities, some of which were Sephardic communities that had come from Spain and Portugal—others were Arab and Berber Jews from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, who were already living in North Africa before the Jewish exodus from the Iberian ...