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v. t. e. Exodus of Iranian Jews[1] refers to the emigration of Persian Jews from Iran in the 1950s and the later migration wave from the country during and after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, during which the community of 80,000 dropped to less than 20,000. [1] The migration of Persian Jews after the Iranian Revolution is mostly attributed to ...
Many Persian Jews were poorer than their European brethren but nevertheless they ... left the country. In late 1979, the people who left was estimated at 50,000 ...
Today, the term Iranian Jews is mostly used in reference to Jews who are from the country of Iran. In various scholarly and historical texts, the term is used in reference to Jews who speak various Iranian languages. Iranian immigrants in Israel (nearly all of whom are Jewish) are referred to as Parsim. In Iran, Persian Jews and Jewish people ...
The Persians (/ ˈpɜːrʒənz / PUR-zhənz or / ˈpɜːrʃənz / PUR-shənz) are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran. [ 4 ] They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ] as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian.
[1] [2] Many of them live in North America, Europe, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Australia and the broader Middle East. [4] [5] Many of them migrated to other countries after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. [6] [7] Iran has experienced waves of emigration since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. The creation of a ...
Persian (Farsi) Historical population of Iran. ... Number of people 15–49 Proportion Number of women 15–49 Proportion 17,681,629 (2006) 43,049,709 (2006)
The return to Zion (Hebrew: שִׁיבָת צִיּוֹן or שבי ציון, Shivat Tzion or Shavei Tzion, lit. ' Zion returnees') is an event recorded in Ezra–Nehemiah of the Hebrew Bible, in which the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah —subjugated by the Neo-Babylonian Empire —were freed from the Babylonian captivity following the Persian ...
The exodus of Iran's Jews [ 225 ] refers to the emigration of Persian Jews from Pahlavi Iran in the 1950s and a later migration wave from Iran during and after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. At the time of Israeli independence in 1948, there were an estimated 140,000 to 150,000 Jews in Iran.