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Egyptian Jews
History of the Jews in Egypt
Egyptian Jews are the Jewish community living in Egypt and one of the largest Jewish communities in the Arab world, and they have the greatest influence and strongest openness and involvement in various fields in modern Egyptian society. While there is no exact census, the Jewish population of Egypt was estimated to be less than 100 in 2004 between 750,000 and 80,000 in the following year 1922
The main components of the Jewish population in Egypt were the Arabic-speaking Jews, Rabbani, Karai, who joined the Sephardic after their expulsion from Spain. After the opening of the Suez Canal, trade in Egypt flourished, attracting Ashkenazi Jews, who began arriving in Egypt after the Holocaust. In Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, they found a safe haven in Egypt. Those who live in Cairo are confined to the "barbarian road" area. But things got worse for Egyptian Jews since the late 1940s after the 1948 war, and worse after the Raven scandal and the 1956 war
Demographics
The Egyptian Jewish community was divided into three distinct parts [citation needed]
Egyptian Jews come from the country, and when Israel was founded in 1948, their number was 11,000 foreign "Egyptian" Jews immigrated to Egypt and gave up their original nationality and joined the Egyptian nationality, and their number reached 75,000 in the same period [source needs] foreign Jews, that is, Jews of different nationalities They chose to live in Egypt, but kept their original nationality, and their number reached about 400,000 in the same period
This difference led to the richness of life in the Egyptian Jewish community. There were various sects of the Jewish religion, different ideas, and multicultural schools, and many temples were established for each sect
Jews in ancient Egypt
The Philae Papyrus contains many documents and legal letters written in Aramaic, detailing the life of the Jewish community of soldiers stationed in the Egyptian frontier garrison during the Achaemenid Empire.
Around 650 BC, during the reign of Mansi, Jewish soldiers participated in the Battle of Psamtik I Nubia. Their religious system was influenced by their presence in Babylon, where there were many deities, and they worshiped the local deity Khnum. In their temples, next to their gods
According to religious legend, the Jews of Egypt constitute one of the oldest Jewish communities, and the Jewish presence in Egypt is linked to the emigration and importance of the Jacob Ibn Ishaq family after Joseph's arrival to Egyptian rule. He is joined by the brothers after famine swept the country
The beginning of the establishment of the Jewish community in Egypt
Despite the exodus of the descendants of Israel from Egypt, including from the Sinai Peninsula, the ties of the Jews were not completely severed after the defeat of the Canaanites and the settlement of Palestine. hostile. For example, we find that the third king of Israel, King Solomon, married the daughter of the Egyptian pharaoh Sheshank (Kings 3:1 and 2). Just as we also find that some of the kings of David's descendants formed alliances with the rulers of Egypt, the prophets of the Children of Israel condemned these alliances in the Tanakh. (Isaiah 30: 1-5) [Required On the other hand, we also find hostile relations at other times, as stated in a text ordered by King Mnebeta, son of Ramses II, who said on the anniversary of his victory over Israel: “Israel was defeated without it, its inhabitants are no longer Presence
In times of crisis, the Jews of the southern kingdom ruled by kings of the descendants of David began to be exposed to times of crisis, and its inhabitants began to immigrate to Egypt, although their return to Egypt was expressly prohibited by the Torah. Although the prophet Jeremiah warned against emigration to Egypt. [5] Although this exodus does not exclude the existence of Jewish communities before the exodus of the Jews in the time of Jeremiah, because of the trade relations between Egypt and the Jews residing in Palestine, as described in the Book of Tanakh, Solomon imported horses and chariots from Egypt through his traders, [6] ] and the exodus of the Jews during that time of the prophet Jeremiah, which coincided with the rule of King Iberis of Egypt, one of the kings of the Iberian dynasty was the twenty-sixth pharaoh. As some Jews did as mercenaries for the army of the twenty-sixth dynasty of the pharaoh, one of its kings established a colony for them on the island of Philae in southern Egypt and allowed them to build a temple there. In addition to the Jewish presence in the city of Aswan, King Darius ordered in the Persian era to close the temple to attract the god "Khnum" and the resident Egyptian priests. On the island, in the words of Adolphe Armand (a famous Egyptologist), the presence of a synagogue near them constituted a "thorn in their eyes", while the colonial and Jewish presence disappeared in the early fourth century B.C
As for the displaced Jews, the survivors of the Babylonian captivity, and those who came in the era of the Prophet Jeremiah, they settled first in the city of Tahphinhes located on the outskirts of the Nile Delta, from which they dispersed in various parts of Egypt. Some of them settled in Memphis and Tanis, and some resided in the Delta and Upper Egypt
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