History of the Jews in Kurdistan

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title: History of the Jews in Kurdistan
text: The Jews of Kurdistan are the Mizrahi Jewish communities from the geographic region of Kurdistan, roughly covering parts of northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. Kurdish Jews lived as closed ethnic communities until they were expelled from Arab and Muslim states from the 1940s–1950s onward. The community largely spoke Judeo-Aramaic. As Kurdish Jews natively adhere to Judaism and originate from the Middle East, Mizrahi Hebrew is used for liturgy. Many Kurdi
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description: Ethnic group
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Kurdistan
date created: 2005-11-16T16:58:43Z
date modified: 2024-09-09T06:34:10Z
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