Mizrahi Jews
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Mizrahi Jews, also known as Mizrahim in plural and Mizrahi in singular, and alternatively referred to as Oriental Jews or Edot HaMizrach, are a grouping of Jewish communities that lived in the Muslim
A Jewish family from Damascus, c. 1901
The Westerners street in Jerusalem, Israel; coined after the Maghrebi Jews
Children in a Jewish school in Baghdad, 1959
Yemenites go to Aden
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
Mizrahi Jews
…applied to descendants of Jewish communities throughout Asia, North Africa, and parts of the North Caucasus. This includes Iraqi Jews, Iranian Jews, Bukharian Jews, Kurdish Jews, Afghan Jews, Mountain Jews, Georgian Jews, and the small community of Bahraini Jews. The aforementioned groups are believed to derive…
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