4chan seems to conflate Ashkenazim and Sephardim as the only Jewish community out there so let's change that.
ITT: We post Jewish communities around the world, by Jewish I mean those either of Jewish ancestry and/or those who profess and practice Judaism (NOT messianic, Fringe theory "ancient Hebrew descendants" or Black Hebrew Israelites).
I'll start.
Kaifeng Jews of China, the only surviving but certainly not the first Chinese Jewish community
>During the late Tang and early Song, China was in turmoil. Buddhist persecution was followed by internal disorder and the “barbarians” were knocking on the gates of China. Large numbers of people left their homes and wandered in search of safer places, and by the time the Song had finally reestablished some sort of order, many Chinese residents had already been living under the Jurchen in relative peace. The Song Emperors were quite determined to return those refugees back to China. A memorial suggested that the emperor invite and welcome the refugees back. The Emperor accepted the plan and with offers of some incentives, he invited the refugees to return and submit to the Chinese rule(Lidai Mingchen Zouoyi -Famous Ministers Memorials to the Throne in Dynastical Order. v.6. pg. 4382, Taibei, 1964 –in Chinese). Among the returnees was a band of Jews, some of them merchants, probably of Persian birth or ancestry, who accepted the invitation and was granted an audience in the imperial palace. The emperor graciously accepted the tribute of cotton goods they had brought to him, saying, “You returned to my China. Honor and observe the customs of your ancestors”. Some scholars translate the Chinese as “You have come to our China…” and believe this indicates the formal start of the Jewish community of Kaifeng.
>>938207
>The Bene Israel believe that their forefathers arrived in India before the destruction of the second temple. The accepted version is that their forefathers were sailing in a commercial ship from the Land of Israel to India. The ship wrecked near the coast of Konkan. From the ship survived 14 people, seven men and seven women. They swam towards the land and arrived at the village called Navgaon. All their belongings drowned in the sea. The dead bodies of the others from the ship were buried in the village. The survivors somehow managed to settle in the village and started working in agriculture and oil producing which later on became their main profession. As time passed the descendants of the survivors forgot Hebrew and their religious tradition. But they carried out some of the Israeli tradition.
>The Bene Israels observed Sabbath (Saturday) and abstained on this day from any work. They circumcised their sons on the eighth day after birth. They didn’t eat fish which didn’t had fins and scales. They observed a few Israeli festivals and called them by Indian names, but until their association with other Jewish communities they weren’t aware of the Hanukkah festival and the ninth of Ab fast. These two traditions became part of Jewish tradition after the destruction of the second Temple and therefore the belief that the Bene Israels forefathers arrived in India before the destruction of the second temple. On each religious occasion such as marriage; circumcision or death the Bene Israelis used to recite the ‘Shema’ verse.
>>938271
>Medieval Arab writers ascribed the ancestry of the Berbers to *Goliath the Philistine and maintained their Canaanite origin. The Phoenician colonization of Africa, the long Carthaginian domination, and the survival of Punic, a language closely related to Hebrew, supported these legends which spread among the Berbers themselves. Similar tales are found in the writings of Greek and Latin authors and in the Talmud which spread the legend that the Canaanites immigrated of their own free will to North Africa. It is said that the survivors of the Jewish revolt in *Cyrenaica (115–116 C.E.) found refuge among the Berbers of Western *Libya . Scholars have frequently claimed that the Jews' desire to proselytize found a favorable atmosphere among the Berbers from the first to the seventh centuries. African Christianity, whose early converts were Jews, clashed with Jewish proselytism. Archaeological discoveries, epigraphs, and writings of the Christian scholars Tertullian and St. Augustine, indignant at the growing Berber conversions to Judaism, attest to these facts. The persecutions by the Byzantines forced Jews to settle among the Berbers in the mountain and desert regions. Ibn Khaldun confirmed the existence of a large number of proselyte Berbers at the time of the Arab conquest of Africa.
One of y'all Nigga better post some shit because I don't want to post my own group :n(
>>938351
I have nothing to contribute but enjoyed your thread nonetheless.
this was cool and informative anon.
Also, speaking of india, they also had a shit load of baghdadi jews, and post independence one of the Calcutta jews was instrumental in the 1971 war.
>>938381
>Rude
that's not an answer
>>938386
Your question was made in a way that doesn't warrant a proper answer.
>>938396
Guess that means you're not actually a jew
>Jews from both the Islamic world and Byzantium are known to have migrated to Khazaria during periods of persecution under Heraclius, Justinian II, Leo III, and Romanus Lakapēnos.[191][192] For Simon Schama, Jewish communities from the Balkans and the Bosphoran Crimea, especially from Panticapaeum began migrating to the more hospitable climate of pagan Khazaria in the wake of these persecutions, and were joined there by Jewish refugees from Armenia. The Geniza fragments, he argues, make it clear the Judaising reforms sent roots down into the whole of the population.[193] The pattern is one of an elite conversion preceding large-scale adoption of the new religion by the general population, which often resisted the imposition.[173] One important condition for mass conversion was a settled urban state, where churches, synagogues or mosques provided a focus for religion, as opposed to the free nomadic lifestyle of life on the open steppes.[194] A tradition of the Iranian Judeo-Tats claims that their ancestors were responsible for the Khazar conversion.[195]
>>938428
.....can we like have one Jewish thread without the mention of Khazaria?
>>938431
Anon there actually were Khazar jews
They're not Ashkenazim
>>938381
Copied straight from wiki
>Jacob was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal Presidency, British India, in 1923. His family were Baghdadi Jews, originally from Iraq, who settled in Calcutta in the middle of the 18th century. They were a deeply religious Jewish family.[1] Jacob's father, Elias Emanuel, was an affluent businessman. After his father became sick, Jacob was sent at the age of nine to Victoria School, a boarding school in Kurseong near Darjeeling. From then on, he went home only on school holidays.[2]
>Jacob, motivated by reports of the Holocaust of European Jews during World War II, enlisted in the British Indian Army in 1942. His father objected to his enlisting. He said in 2012, "I am proud to be a Jew, but am Indian through and through."[1]
The guy did something out of a novel
>Jacob understood that a protracted war would not be in India's best interests. On 16 December, during a lull in the battle, Jacob sought permission to visit Niazi to seek his surrender. He flew to Dhaka and obtained an unconditional surrender from Niazi,[6] who later accused Jacob of blackmailing him into the surrender by threatening to order the annihilation of Pakistani troops in the East by bombing.[12] The war was a significant victory for India, with nearly 90,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendering to the Indian Army. Dhaka fell, despite the fact that there were 26,400 Pakistani soldiers in the city and only 3,000 Indian soldiers in the immediate area.[4]
He bluffed someone into surrendering his entire army.
>>938431
I avoid almost all Jewish threads since they are /pol/ cesspools. I was not aware they are mentioned this often.
>Bergjuden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Jews
>>938436
>>938440
Well yes I just wasn't sure about your angle. Thanks for clearly up your intent(s).
>>938439
Thanks, pic related is of a Bagdadi Jewish congregation
>>938311
The Jewish-Egyptian-Nubian community of Yeb/Elephantine under the Persians on the Egyptian-Nubian Borderland
>Jewish garrison community that was already settled in the island by the fifth century B.C., played an essential role in the interaction between Nubia and Egypt. Some historians and archeologists directed attention and research towards this Jewish community for it provides a wide range of evidence for the earliest Diaspora Jewish settlement.
>The task of the Jewish garrison in Elephantine was to protect the Egyptian border with Nubia (Kush). However, the garrison was also associated with insuring the safe passage of products coming from/to Nubia. Adjacent to the Jewish settlement in Elephantine was the Aramean garrison at Syene (Aswan), on the eastern bank of the Nile. While less evidence was available for the Armaean garrison at Syene, extensive records documented life within the Jewish garrison at Elephantine. In Elephantine the Jews built a temple for 'Yahweh', which resembled the Salomon's temple in Jerusalem. During the fifth century B.C., contemporary with the Persian rule of Egypt, the temple was destroyed by Egyptian rebels and at which time the Jewish settlement mysteriously vanished.
They worshiped Anat-Yahu a male/female notion of Yahweh but fully saw themselves as a part of the Jewish community that still hadn't quite become fully monotheistic.
>>938527
>Depressing economic climate in Morocco, influx of Spaniards into northern Morocco competing for scarce jobs, migrations of Jews from southern Morocco fleeing draughts and disease conditions caused a mass migration in the mid-nineteenth century of Jewish teenagers, mostly from the overcrowded northern towns, to seek their fortunes in South America's Amazon basin. They went with the intention to send money back to their empovrished families, which they faithfully did, and to return when they could, which they also did - part of the "back and forth" migratory tradition.
>At first they come on long 3 month voyages aboard slow sailing ships. With the advent of steamships to Brazil, the trip only took 3 weeks and the emigration volume increased dramatically and frequent return trips to Morocco with the accumulated wealth became practical. The wealth of the returning sons contrasted sharply with the abject poverty at home and spurred even more sons to seek the amazonian eldorado and incidentally leaving largely female Jewish populations behind. Records of the Alliance Israelite Universelle show that many families survived largely on the money sent home by their sons in the Amazon.
The remaining Moroccan Peruvian mestizo community has either assimilated or migrated to Israel
>>938207
The Yeminite Jewish community is, as far as I know, the only one that still practices polygamy. It causes trouble once every so often when you have a guy trying to get entry to Israel along with his 2-3 wives, since Israel doesn't recognize multiple marriages.
>>938957
Most of the Yemeni Jewish community left during Operation magic carpet though. The remaining population is quite normative now so it would seem as though this is more of a relic fact.
Persian Jews are probably the most historically significant Mizrahi Jews. People normally think of Iran as the most antisemitic country after Palestine, but Judaism has a long (Biblical) history in the region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Esther_and_Mordechai
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Daniel
I just love Gorsky's pics.
