Baghdadi_Jews
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Baghdadi Jews (Hebrew: יהודים בגדדים, romanized: Yehudim Bagdadim; Arabic: اليهود البغداد, romanized: al-Yahūd al-Baghdadi) or Iraqi Jews are the former communities of Jewish migrants and their descendants from Baghdad and elsewhere in the Middle East. They settled primarily in the ports and along the trade routes around the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Beginning under the Mughal Empire i
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Prominent Baghdadi Jewish patriarch David Sassoon (seated) and his sons Elias David, Albert (Abdullah), and Sassoon David Sassoon | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 50,000 in 1900 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| India 100 (chiefly Mumbai and Calcutta) Israel, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United States | |
| Languages | |
| Traditionally Arabic, Persian, Judeo-Urdu and Bengali
Now mostly English and Hebrew | |
| Religion | |
| Judaism |
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