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The most ancient communities of African Jews are the Ethiopian, West African Jews, Sephardi Jews, and Mizrahi Jews of North Africa and the Horn of Africa. In the seventh century, many Spanish Jews fled from the persecution which was occurring under the rule of the Visigoths and migrated to North Africa, where they made their homes in the ...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies estimates that the figure is closer to 75,000. [2] The history of the Jews in South Africa began during the period of Portuguese exploration in the early modern era, though a permanent presence was not established until the beginning of Dutch colonisation in the region.
The Jewish history of Mali begins in the 8th century, when multilingual African-Jewish Radhanites first settled in Timbuktu in the Songhai Empire. These medieval merchants established a trading center in the city, from which a network of trading routes were created through the desert.
Maghrebi Jews (מַגּרֶבִּים or מַאגרֶבִּים , Maghrebim), are a Jewish diaspora group with a long history in the Maghreb region of North Africa, which includes present-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.
History of the Jews in Africa by region (5 C) C. Jewish Cape Verdean history (1 C, 6 P) H. Haredi Judaism in Africa (1 C, 3 P) M. Jewish Malagasy history (1 C, 2 P)
For the history of the Jews in East Africa between countries see: History of the Jews in Kenya; History of the Jews in Uganda; History of the Jews in Djibouti;
History of the Jews in East Africa (10 C, 7 P) N. History of the Jews in North Africa (9 C, 3 P) S. History of the Jews in Southern Africa (4 C, 10 P) W.
Many of the following articles relate to Jewish history in North Africa: African Jews; History of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire; History of the Jews under Muslim rule. History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire; Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries; List of Jews from the Arab world; Islamic Spain and Reconquista. Sephardi Jews; Berber ...