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History. During World War II, Thailand was a part of the Axis, [1] however it has had friendly diplomatic relations with Israel since 1954. [2] The Jewish community of Thailand today is mostly made up of the Ashkenazi descendants of refugees from Russia and the Soviet Union. There are also Persian Jews who emigrated during the 1970s and 1980s ...
East Asian Jewish communities have existed for centuries. Even as the majority of the Jewish people settled in the Holy Land, Europe, and America, some traveled East Asia and settled. Today, due to the increasing ease and decreasing price of communications and transportation, as well as other effects of globalization, the Jewish communities in ...
Recent Jewish population dynamics are characterized by continued steady increase in the Israeli Jewish population and flat or declining numbers in other countries (the diaspora). Jewish immigration to Palestine began in earnest following the 1839 Tanzimat reforms; between 1840 and 1880, the Jewish population of Palestine rose from 9,000 to 23,000.
From January 2004 to October 2006, 1,815 people were killed and 2,729 were wounded in the insurgency. [32] Despite the renewed violence, a post-coup opinion poll found that southerners had become the happiest people of Thailand. [33] 15 November: Militants shot dead three persons in separate drive-by shootings.
Jews and Judaism in Tajikistan have a long and varied history. Jews first arrived in the eastern part of the Emirate of Bukhara, in what is today Tajikistan, in the 2nd century BC [citation needed]. After the Communists came to power they organized the country into republics, including Tajikistan, which was first formed as an autonomous ...
The Bnei Menashe ( Hebrew: בני מנשה, "Children of Menasseh ", known as the Shinlung in India [3]) is a community of Indian Jews from various Tibeto-Burmese [4] ethnic groups from the border of India and Burma who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel; some of them have adopted Judaism. [3] : 3 The community has around ...
T. Jews and Judaism in Thailand (1 C, 1 P) Categories: Ethnic groups in Southeast Asia. Jews and Judaism in Asia by region. Religion in Southeast Asia. Hidden category: CatAutoTOC generates no TOC.
Pages in category "History of the Jews in Southeast Asia". The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .