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Unlike the Iranian community in Los Angeles, which contains a large number of non-Jewish Iranians, the Iranian population in and around Great Neck is almost entirely Jewish. Several thousand of the Great Neck area's 10,000 Iranian Jews trace their origins to the Iranian city of Mashhad, constituting the largest Mashhadi community in the United ...
Beginning in the 1940s, some Mashhadi Jews had moved to the United States (a trend which continued through the 1980s). By 1948, the Jewish population of Mashhad numbered 2,500. [7] In the 1950s, some Mashhadi Jews moved to Germany and Italy. In 1979, Mashhadi Jews in Tehran fled during the Iranian Revolution.
The commercial district in Great Neck, New York, has been reshaped to serve the needs of Mashhadis and other Iranian Jews. Many businesses there cater to Iranian customs and taste. Worldwide there are 20,000 Mashhadis, of which about 10,000 live in Israel. Of the Mashhadis in the United States, many of them live in Great Neck, New York.
Exodus of Iranian Jews [1] refers to the emigration of Persian Jews from Iran in the 1950s and the later migration wave from the country during and after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, during which the community of 80,000 dropped to less than 20,000. [1]
King Cyrus the Great, who ruled the Persian Empire between 559 and 530 B.C., is considered a savior of the Jewish people after he annexed areas of Babylon, in modern-day Iraq, where Jews from ...
Kings Point, New York, a village in Great Neck, New York, is said to have the largest concentration of Iranians in the United States (nearly 30%). [62] However, unlike the population in Los Angeles, the Great Neck population is almost exclusively Jewish. [63]
Jewish Iranian politicians (1 C, 5 P) R. Iranian rabbis (3 C, 3 P) S. Jews in the Sasanian Empire (6 P) Pages in category "Iranian Jews" The following 105 pages are ...
American people of Iranian-Jewish descent (54 P) Y. Yeshivas Ner Yisroel (10 P, 2 F) ... Great Neck, New York; K. Kings Point, New York; M. Magen David Sephardic ...