Musta'arabi Jews
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Musta'arabi Jews were Arabic-speaking Jews who lived in the Middle East and North Africa prior to the arrival and integration of the Sephardic Jews.
Musta'arabi Jews in Peki'in, Israel
Maqāma 21, Maqamat al Harari, 1237
Old Yishuv
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The Old Yishuv were the Jewish communities of the region of Palestine during the Ottoman period, up to the onset of Zionist aliyah waves, and the consolidation of the new Yishuv by the end of World Wa
Musta'arabi Jews
…or "Moorish" (compare with the Spanish word Morisco). The Musta'arabi Jews in the Land of Israel constituted one of the three main components of the Old Yishuv (Jewish community of Eretz Yisrael), together with the Sephardi Jews, and Ashkenazi Jews. The Musta'arabi Jews in the Land of Israel were descendants…
Photograph of Sephardi Jews in 19th century taken from 1899 book Views from Palestine and its Jewish colonies.
Jewish workers in Kerem Avraham neighborhood of Jerusalem in the mid-19th century
Funeral services for a Rabbi, Jerusalem, 1903
An Israeli etrog or Greek citron, with pitam and gartel (ridge around the center)