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	Persian Jews in the Oriental Rug Business
		Persian Jews of this period were encouraged to help expand international trade and often rose to positions of great wealth and power.
		During the era of Turkish and Mongol domination, the lives of most Jews remained relatively unchanged; it was with the rise of the Safavids in the 16th century and Iran's increased political and commercial contact with Europe that their circumstances began to change and that change became recorded in history.
		It was in the beginning of this century that the social-economic situation of the Jews, as well as for the rest of the Iranian population, began to improve.
	www.rugreview.com /orr/132gib.htm (2128 words)

	Judeo-Persian
		More than five hundred years after the end of that dynasty the Jews of the Babylonian diaspora again came under the dominion of the Persians; and among such Jews the Persian language held a position similar to that held by the Greek language among the Jews of the West.
		Persian became to a great extent the language of everyday life among the Jews of Babylonia; and a hundred years after the conquest of that country by the Sassanids an amora of Pumbedita, Rab Joseph (d.
		But in the Aramaic Targum there are very few Persian words, owing to the fact that after the middle of the third century the Targumim on the Pentateuch and the Prophets were accepted as authoritative and received a fixed textual form in the Babylonian schools.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ju/Judeo-Persian.html (236 words)

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		Persian Jews have maintained one of the oldest Jewish communities in Iran and are customarily traditionalists.
		This aftermath is unfortunate since many Persian Jews who drive to the house of a family member or synagogue on Shabbat, or eat vegetarian meals at non-kosher establishments maintain as a culture separate seating during prayers and a common acceptance of moderate religious and observant practices.
		Since the typical Persian Jew in Iran was not able to observe all of the commandments to their entirety, it became very hard to switch to a different mode of observance once they emigrated from Iran.
	www.geocities.com /mashalah26/comment.html (1806 words)

	Persian Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Persian Jews, Iranian Jews, or the 'Jews of Persia' are Jews historically affiliated with the Persian Empire or the modern country of Iran.
		Jews of Barforush were forcibly converted in 1866; when they were allowed to revert to Judaism thanks to an intervention by the French and British ambassadors, a mob killed 18 Jews of Barforush, burning two of them alive.
		Jews in Iran are not allowed to communicate with Jewish groups outside of Iran unless the group is opposed to the existence of Israel, such as Neturei Karta.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Persian_Jews (5263 words)

	Bukharan Jews
		Jews congregated in the New Mahalla and Amirabad quarters.
		After a few years of looking favorably on the Jews for their support of the Soviet takeover, the Stalinist regime began the process of eradicating Judaism, and religion in general, from its empire.
		The community of 500 Jews in Dushanbe, most of whom are Bukharan, as well as the world Jewish community, and the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Tajikistan intervened to prevent the destruction of the historic synagogue.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/Bukharan_Jews.html (2660 words)

	Brief History of Jewish life in Persia.
		Persian Jews were amongst the earliest settlers outside Judea; legend connects their origin with at least three events in history.
		In the 10th century, Jews were trusted as bankers and holders of depositories.The Caliphs of the period and the courts entrusted them with large sums; they engaged in lending and borrowing.
		In spite of this the Zionist Federation was openly active in the country and responsible for the immigration of Jews to Eretz Israel.
	www.sefarad.org /publication/lm/049/html/page8.html (1403 words)

	A BRIEF HISTORY OF IRANIAN JEWS
		In 458 BC, the Jew Ezra is appointed the deputy of Judah.
		Jews having had excellent relations with the Parthians were suspected to be collaborators with the deposed dynasty and their movement was restricted.
		Jews were forced to wear both a yellow badge and a headgear, and their oath were not accepted in courts of justice.
	www.payvand.com /ny/jews.html (5226 words)

	PersianRabbi.com - Persian Iranian Judaism Online - On Persian Jews and their Persecution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But the Persian Jews seldom enjoyed the degree of tolerance afforded the Andulasian or Ottaman Jewish population, particularly after the imposition of the Shi'ai sect as the state's religion in Iran in late 15th and 16th centuries.
		According to him, the Persian Jews were required to live in a segregated part of the city, considered unclean, and forbidden to walk or trade in the Moslem areas.
		The history and lives of the Persian Jews are also marked by forced conversions, lynching and massacre, under the Shi'ai influence, nearly always instigated by a Mollah, and often in conjunction with and cooperation of the ruling Shah or Khan.
	www.persianrabbi.com /content/view/1/2 (2300 words)

	Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Persian
		Persian Muslims of the pre-Mongol period also used local dialects in written texts, such as in translations of the Qur'an (Ravaqi, Lazard 1978).
		In Iran, Persian is the main tool of education and written expression, though less than half of the population speak it at home and many dialects, Iranian and Turkic as well as Semitic, still exist.
		Local dialects of Persian (of Iran), especially by elder and less educated immigrants in Israel; the distinction between dialects of New Persian and local vernacular forms of New Persian is frequently blurred.
	www.jewish-languages.org /judeo-persian.html (1513 words)

	Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Iranian
		For example, the word for 'large (Persian bozorg, colloquial also gonde) is masar in HamedÄni, masÄr in KhunsÄri, mas or gondo in Yazdi, gunda in ShÄ«rÄzi (this instance, being the original pronunciation of Colloquial Persian gonde, demonstrates the conservatism of ShÄ«rÄzi), KÄshÄni gÅdi, and EsfÄhÄni bele.
		The Jews speak Persian or the dialect of their city of origin: in Rasht, a city in the northern province of GÄ«lÄn, Jews spoke EsfÄhÄni, KÄshÄni, and SiÄhkali (a GilÄni dialect).
		Unlike Persian and local dialects, where the Hebrew component is very small and serves mostly in compound verbs, in LuterÄ'i the Hebrew and Aramaic words hold the meaning, and the Persian component is minimized to conjunctions and grammatical morphemes.
	www.jewish-languages.org /judeo-iranian.html (1647 words)

	Iran remains home to Jewish enclave
		Jews 'part of Iran' Still, Jewish leaders say their community has far stronger roots in Iran than other Middle East Jewish communities, which were virtually eradicated by massive immigration to Israel in the 1940s and 1950s.
		The return of the Jews to Jerusalem at that time was accompanied by a large migration to the lands that were then Persia, and now Iran.
		The ancient city was once known as Dar-Al-Yahud (''House of the Jews'' in Farsi), and as late as the 19th century it was the home of 100,000 Jews, according to Elias Haronian, head of Esfahan's Jewish community.
	www.jewsnotzionists.org /iranianjews.html (1455 words)

	The Jewish Community of Teheran
		The development of their economic life was greatly hampered by the concept of the ritual uncleanliness of non-believers (Jews and Christians alike) held by Shiite Islam, the religious basis of the dynasty.
		As a result of the constitutional reforms under Shah Muzaffar-ed-din in the early decades of the 20th century, the Jews were granted citizenship in 1906, though they were not permitted to elect their own representative to the Persian Parliament until a few decades later.
		In 1970, 40,000 Jews (55% of the total Jewish population of Iran) lived in Teheran, and the community was composed of Jews from various Iranian provinces including Meshed, and from Bukhara, Baghdad, and other oriental communities, as well as of Ashkenazim from Russia, Poland and Germany.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Archive/Teheran.asp (855 words)

	Chinese Jews
		Persian: Kaifeng Jews used Judeo-Persian rubrics in the synagogue manuscripts; retained speaking knowledge of Persian all the years of contact with the Jesuits; and pronounce their Hebrew in a manner betraying their Persian influence.
		And likewise, Jews were in charge of the caravans to the Far East in the early centuries of the first millennium, because they expected to interact with their co-religionists who were already there.
		The Jews of Kaifeng, he stated, observed most traditional festivals, refrained from eating pork, circumcised their infant sons, and generally followed the Laws of Moses, as similar to observant Jews Ricci had seen in Europe.
	jewishwebindex.com /chinese_jews.htm (9631 words)

	Chinese Jews: History
		Around 960, a group of Persian Jews, merchants or refugees, arrived in the city.
		Russian Jews were numerous in Harbin around the turn of the century.
		Jews fleeing Russia in the 1900s were followed by refugees from the Nazis during World War II.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/chinesejews1.html (337 words)

	Jews for Jesus Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Some in the Messianic movement flatly deny that Jews for Jesus (and to a lesser extent, other Jewish missions) are a part of the movement.
		Unless or until we Messianic Jews are qualified to lead, we should not expect or accept leadership or prominence in the church—and we certainly should not seek it on the basis of our ethnicity or even historic precedent (Proverbs 27:2).
		When traditional Jews mark the Ninth of Av with fasting and lamenting, it is perhaps a recognition that within Judaism something is not well.
	jewsforjesus.blogspot.com (4847 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Opinion, Sepharadic Judaism, Houman Kashani and Arash Lalezary
		Persian Jews living in the United States are on the verge of separating into denominations -- just as the Ashkenazik Jews have.
		At the turn of the last two decades, with the Islamic Revolution in Iran, tens of thousands of Persian Jews were uprooted as they moved their families to metropolitan cities such as Los Angeles and New York.
		For example, we are increasingly seeing many Persian rabbis becoming Chassidic and Orthodox by their way of dress (fl hats, fl coats/robes, paeot, and so on), way of speech (with their Ashkenazik accents), and unfortunately, also by their way of thought and practice.
	www.iranian.com /Opinion/2001/March/Jews (2129 words)

	Are Mountain Jews Descended from the Khazars?
		It is possible that the Mountain Jews are descendants of Persian-Jewish soldiers who were stationed in the Caucasus by the Sasanian kings in the fifth or sixth century to protect the area from the onslaughts of the Huns and other nomadic invaders from the east.
		Data that Jews arrived in Khazaria from "Armenia" demand that we understand that the "Armenia" of the 'Anonymous Cambridge' Letter represents not actually Armenia, but rather the territory of the large administrative unit which at the time of Arab domination was called Armenia.
		Outside of the territory of the Khazarian kaganate and outside of the historical zone of the migration of Mountain Jews, this name practically is nonexistent; two exceptions during the Middle Ages were in Jerusalem in the 10th century and in Byzantium in the 12th century.
	www.khazaria.com /mountainjews.html (3673 words)

	Jews of Bukhara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bukharan Jews have traditionally maintained that Bukhara is the Hador mentioned in the Bible (Second Kings 17:6) to which Assyria exiled the ten lost tribes of Israel during the seventh century B.C.E. It is of course possible that Assyria did resettle some of the Levantine tribes it had conquered in the region of Sogdiana.
		What is known is that the captive Jews by and large resisted assimilation into the local populations and maintained a national identity during their captivity in the East.
		Jews owned orchards and vineyards, raised sheep, worked as goldsmiths and jewelers, and even had representatives in the royal court.
	members.dancris.com /~byblos/bukbabyl.htm (717 words)

	FOR IRANIAN-AMERICAN JEWS, PURIM IS A SERIOUS DAY
		Iranian Jews seem to be more amused than offended by the storybook and mask depiction of the Nordic-looking Queen Esther.
		Persian Jews, after all, never harbored any misconceptions about who Esther was.
		Wherever Persian Jews go on Purim, there are mounds of halvah that everyone has brought to share with everyone else.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0301/purim.iran.asp (1254 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		Jews, in all their local permutations, were a big part of Villaraigosa’s victory: Orthodox Jews, Valley Jews, Westside liberal Jews — and also the politically emerging community of Iranian Jews.
		Political activism is a fairly new phenomenon for Persian Jewish immigrants who, for more than 2,000 years in Iran, were generally denied voting rights and the right to partake in political activities.
		Other Iranian Jews are expected to compete in upcoming elections for the governing board of the Beverly Hills Unified School District, Delshad said.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=14305 (728 words)

	Jews of the Middle East
		Sephardim are among the descendants of the line of Jews who chose to return and rebuild Israel after the Persian Empire conquered the Babylonian Empire.
		In Israel, Middle Eastern and North African Jews were the majority of the Jewish population for decades, with numbers as high as 70 percent of the Jewish population, until the mass Russian immigration of the 1990s.
		As Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews are a minority of Jews in North America, their heritage remains foreign to many North American Jews of Central and Eastern European heritage (known as Ashkenazim).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/mejews.html (969 words)

	PersianRabbi.com - Persian Iranian Judaism Online - Purim In Iran
		Persian Jews, after all, never harbored any misconceptions about who Esther was.
		Wherever Persian Jews go on Purim, there are mounds of halvah that everyone has brought to share with everyone else.
		The Jews had been in exile for less than 70 years when the story of Purim occured, which means that even if Esther's generation was born in Iran, her parent's generation were not.
	www.persianrabbi.com /content/view/101/1 (1553 words)

	Message Boards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ancient Persians were homosexuals by TruthAboutPersia on 12/27/2004 11:14:02 AM.
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	Jews for Jesus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The family that has brought "fun" back into dysfunctional is on the big screen and Jews for Jesus commentator Ruth Rosen has something to say about it.
		Jews For Jesus broadsiders at the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro station.
		Jews who have come to believe in Jesus but insist they are still Jews claim loyalty both to the Jewish people and to Jesus.
	www.jewsforjesus.org / - !http://www.jewsforjesus.org (595 words)

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