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The history of the Jews in Afghanistan goes back at least 2,500 years. Ancient Iranian tradition suggests that Jews settled in Balkh, a Zoroastrian and Buddhist stronghold at the time. The Kingdom of Judah collapsed in 587 BCE leading to this migration. [2] In more recent times, the community has been reduced to complete extinction. [3] [4]
Despite that most Jews had already departed from the country by this time, with the majority settling down in Israel, Simintov did not permanently relocate; he briefly lived in Turkmenistan but returned to Kabul in 1998, by which time the Taliban had officially established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
The Kabul synagogue, known by locals as the Jewish Mosque, [1] [2] is an abandoned Jewish congregation and synagogue in Kabul, Afghanistan.The synagogue was completed in 1966, when Afghanistan's Jewish population numbered in the thousands.
As Afghanistan is a landlocked country located between Central Asia and South Asia, the Jews who lived in Afghanistan are sometimes considered to be the same as Bukharan Jews, though some Jews from Afghanistan identify solely as "Afghan Jews." [81]
The Afghan Geniza (or Genizah) is a collection of hundreds of Jewish manuscript fragments found in a genizah in the caves of Afghanistan. The manuscripts include writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Persian, some of which are 1,000 years old.
Alden Oreck, The Virtual Jewish History Tour: Afghanistan from Jewish Virtual Library; Bani-Israelite Theory of Paktoons Ethnic Origin on the site of World Afghan Jirgah. Archived 6 February 2005. Traditions of Israelite Descent Among Certain Muslim Groups in South Asia; From the most of ages by Shahid Hassan From the Mists of Ages
The Yu Aw Synagogue (Persian: کنیسای یوآو) is an abandoned Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Momanda neighbourhood of the old city of Herat, in western Afghanistan. The area was once known as Mahalla-yi Musahiya, or the "Neighbourhood of the Jews". It is the only synagogue in Herat that has been preserved with ...
Afghanistan–Israel relations (1 C, 1 P) I. Israeli people of Afghan descent (2 C, 1 P) S. Former synagogues in Afghanistan (2 P) Pages in category "Jewish Afghan ...