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The history of the Jews in Pakistan goes back to 1839 when Pakistan was part of British India. [1] [2] Various estimates suggest that there were about 50,000 to 60,000 Jews living in Karachi at the beginning of the 20th century, mostly comprising Iranian Jews and Bene Israel (Indian Jews); [3] [4] [5] a substantial Jewish community lived in Rawalpindi, [1] and a smaller community also lived in ...
In 1989, the original ark and podium were reportedly stored by a non-Jew in Karachi, while a Torah scroll case was taken by a Jewish American woman to the United States. In 2004, she donated the synagogue's registers covering the period of 1961–1976 to the Israeli Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem .
The Bani Israel Graveyard [1] is the only Jewish cemetery in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. This cemetery is a part of the larger Mewa Shah Graveyard. Over the years, the area has been reduced. The graveyard currently holds about 5,000 graves. [2] [3]
Records cite that major Pakistani Jewish migration to Israel occurred in the 1960s and 1970s from India, where many Jewish refugees from Pakistan eventually settled during the independence period. Magain Shalome , built by Solomon David Umerdekar and his son Gershone Solomon, Karachi's last synagogue , was demolished in 1988 to make way for a ...
However, shortly after the independence of Pakistan, Karachi's Magain Shalome Synagogue as well as individual Jews across the country were subject to pogroms by Muslim mobs. Hostility towards Jews intensified following the State of Israel's Declaration of Independence in May 1948; synagogues across Pakistan were frequently attacked and largely ...
Israel–Pakistan relations (1 C, 6 P) ... Pages in category "Jewish Pakistani history" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Jewish Pakistani history (4 C, 5 P) S. ... Pages in category "Jews and Judaism in Pakistan" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
History of the Jews in Pakistan This page was last edited on 2 August 2023, at 03:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...