Assyrian Jews

Assyrian Jews (Hebrew: יהודים אַשּׁוּרִים, romanized: Yehudim Ashurim) first appeared in the territory of Assyria when the Israelites were exiled to Assyria in approximately 740 BCE. Jews have been continuously living alongside the Assyrian people in the territories of Assyria since the Assyrian exile.

History

Assyrian Jews are Aramaic-speaking Mizrahi Jewish communities that lived in the geographic region of Mesopotamia, the Zagros Mountains, roughly covering parts of northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. Assyrian Jews lived as closed ethnic communities until they were expelled from Arab and Muslim states from the 1940s–1950s onward. The community largely speaks Judeo-Aramaic. Many Assyrian Jews, especially the ones who hailed from larger cities of Iraq, went through a Sephardic Jewish blending during the 18th century.

Gallery

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  Pre-1948 distribution of modern Judeo-Aramaic languages and dialects
• Assyrian Jews
  Assyrian Jews
• Christian and Jewish Assyrians at the Nova music festival site demonstrating their respect and solidarity with Israelis following the 7 October attacks
  Christian and Jewish Assyrians at the Nova music festival site demonstrating their respect and solidarity with Israelis following the 7 October attacks

See also

• Assyrian captivity
• Ktav Ashuri
• Ktav Ivri
• Adiabene
• Helena of Adiabene
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
• Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
• Judeo-Aramaic languages
• Aramaic studies
• History of the Jews in Kurdistan

External links

• Assyrian Jews
• Prof. Maoz about Assyrian Jews
• Assyrian Jews in Israel
• Assyrian Jews in Captivity
• Assyrian Jewish language