Bukharan Jews
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Bukharan Jews, also known as Bukharian Jews, are the Mizrahi Jewish sub-group of Central Asia that dwelt predominantly in what is today Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan. The group
Jews from Mashad, Iran and Jews from Soviet Uzbekistan meeting in Bukhara, c. 1930s
Bukharan Jewish girl, c. 1860s
Rabbi Shimon Hakham, the great-grandson of Rabbi Yosef Maimon
Bukharan Jewish family in Jerusalem, 1909
Zablon Simintov
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Zablon Simintov or Zebulon Simentov is an Afghan Jewish former carpet trader and restaurateur. Between 2005 and his evacuation from the country in 2021, he was widely believed to be the only Jew still
Bukharan Jews
…Afghanistan's Jewish population continued to dwindle as many emigrated to other countries. By the end of 2004, only two known Jews were left in Afghanistan, Zablon Simintov and Isaac Levy (born c. 1920). Levy relied on charity to survive while Simintov ran a store selling carpets and jewelry until 2001. They lived on…
Simintov holding a Shofar in March 2005