Approximately 900,000 Jews migrated, fled, or were expelled from Muslim-majority countries throughout Africa and Asia in the 20th century, primarily after the establishment of the State of Israel. Lar
Jewish Wedding in Morocco by Eugène Delacroix, Louvre, Paris, 1839
Jews of Fes, c. 1900
The Great Synagogue of Oran, Algeria, confiscated and turned into a mosque after the departure of Jews
World Jewish Congress conference on the situation of Jews in North Africa, Algiers, 1952
Exodus of Iranian Jews
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Exodus of Iranian Jews refers to the immigration of Iranian Jews from Iran in the 1950s and the later wave of emigration from the country during and after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, during which
Jewish exodus from the Muslim world
…Mossad LeAliyah Bet, the Jewish Agency, and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. The mass movement mainly transpired from 1948 to the early 1970s, with one final exodus of Iranian Jews occurring shortly after the Islamic Revolution in 1979–1980. An estimated 650,000 (72%) of these Jews resettled in Israel. A number of small-scale…
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