History of the Jews in Africa
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History of the Jews in Africa
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African Jewish communities include:
- Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews who primarily live in the Maghreb of North Africa, including Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia, as well as Sudan and Egypt. Some were established early in the diaspora; others after the expulsion from Iberia in the late 15th century.
- South African Jews, who are mostly Ashkenazi Jews descended from pre-Holocaust immigrant Lithuanian Jews.
- Beta Israel living primarily in the Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Africa
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2004-05-17T05:48:40Z
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2024-08-28T00:31:57Z
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