List of Asian Jews

As an indigenous West Asian people, Jews have been present in western Asia since the beginning of their history. Some examples of ancient Jewish communities in the Mediterranean and Caucasus are: Iran (Persian Jews) and Iraq (Iraqi Jews); the Georgian Jews and Mountain Jews of the Caucasus.

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Through the centuries, they also established Jewish communities in eastern parts of Asia. There are Bukharan Jews of Central Asia. Some Jews migrated to India, establishing the Bene Israel, the Baghdadi Jews and the Cochin Jews of India (Jews in India); and the former Jewish community in Kaifeng, China.

Here is a partial list of some prominent Asian Jews, arranged by country. Note that those regions of Asia where Arabic or Russian or Turkish predominate are excluded from this list (except for the Baghdadi Jews from India and Southeast Asia); see Middle Eastern Jews, Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardi Jews for information on these populations.

Armenia

Azerbaijan
  • Misha Black, designer; brother of Max Black
  • Bella Davidovich, pianist
  • Gavril Abramovich Ilizarov, Soviet physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus
  • Lev Landau, physicist, Nobel Prize (1962). Russian-speaking Ashkenazi.
  • Lev Nussimbaum, writer (a.k.a. Kurban Said)
  • Vladimir Rokhlin, mathematician. Russian-speaking Ashkenazi.

Afghanistan

A small community of Jews lived mainly in Herat, Afghanistan and Kabul, but they emigrated to Israel, Europe and the United States. In September 2021, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan, Zablon Simintov, fled Afghanistan 's capital Kabul in response to the Taliban takeover several weeks prior.

China
See also: History of the Jews in China

Georgia
  • David Baazov, Zionist activist and rabbi
  • Ioseb Bardanashvili, composer
  • Roman Dzindzichashvili, American chess player
  • Yasha Manasherov, Israeli Greco-Roman wrestler
  • Mikhael Mirilashvili, businessman and philanthropist
  • Tamir Sapir, businessman and investor
  • Gocha Tsitsiashvili, Israeli Greco-Roman wrestler

Hong Kong

India
  • Sarah Avraham, Indian-born Israeli, 2014 women's world Thai kickboxing champion
  • Joseph Rabban, given copper plates of special grants from the Chera ruler Bhaskara Ravivarman II from Kerala in South India
  • David Abraham Cheulkar, actor
  • Nissim Ezekiel, poet
  • J F R Jacob, former Governor of Punjab and Goa; the Chief of Staff of the Indian Army's Eastern Command
  • Gerry Judah, artist and designer
  • Anish Kapoor, sculptor (Baghdadi Jewish mother, Indian father)
  • Samson Kehimkar, musician
  • Ezekiel Isaac Malekar, Bene Israel Rabbi
  • Pearl Padamsee, theatre personality (part Jewish)
  • David and Simon Reuben, businessmen
  • Nadira, actress of the 1950s and 1960s.
  • David Sassoon, businessman
  • Albert Abdullah David Sassoon (1818 – 24 October 1896), British-Indian merchant[1]
  • Sassoon David Sassoon (August 1832 – 23 June 1867), Indian-born British businessman and philanthropist[2]
  • Solomon Sopher, Jewish community leader
  • Eli Ben-Menachem, Indian-born Israeli politician[3]
  • Ellis Kadoorie and Elly Kadoorie, philanthropists
  • Horace Kadoorie, philanthropist
  • Ruby Myers, Bollywood actress of the 1920s, otherwise known as Sulochana
  • Lalchanhima Sailo, rabbi
  • Abraham Barak Salem, Cochin Jew Indian nationalist leader
  • Bensiyon Songavkar, professional cricketer

Iran/Persia

Israel
Further information: List of Israelis

Japan
Further information: List of Japanese Jews
Refugees, short expatriates
Other related people to Judaism and Jews in Japan

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Kyrgyzstan

Singapore

Sri Lanka
  • Sidney Abrahams, Chief Justice
  • Hedi Keuneman, political activist
  • Anne Ranasinghe, poet
  • Leonard Woolf, British administrative officer and author, later married author Virginia

Tajikistan
  • Rena Galibova, actress, "People's Artist of Tajikistan"
  • Meirkhaim Gavrielov, journalist and political opposition leader
  • Malika Kalantarova, dancer, "People's Artist of Soviet Union"
  • Fatima Kuinova, singer, "Merited Artist of the Soviet Union"
  • Shoista Mullodzhanova, shashmakon singer, "People's Artist of Tajikistan" (viewed as the Queen of Tajik music)
  • Moses Znaimer, TV producer
  • Rus Yusupov, designer and tech entrepreneur.

Uzbekistan
  • Ari Babakhanov, musician
  • Yefim Bronfman, pianist
  • Lev Leviev, diamond tycoon
  • Ilyas Malayev, musician and poet
  • Shlomo Moussaieff (businessman), Israeli businessman
  • Shlomo Moussaieff (rabbi), co-founder of the Bukharian Quarter in Jerusalem
  • Gavriel Mullokandov, shashmakom artist, "People's Artist of Uzbekistan"
  • Suleiman Yudakov, composer and musician, "People's Artist of the Soviet Union"

See also

References
  1. p.862 Palgrave Dictionary
  2. p.865 Palgrave Dictionary
  3. "Knesset Members - Eli Ben-Menachem". Knesset.gov.il. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  4. Richard Gottheil, Max Schloessinger. Masarjawaih. Jewish Encyclopedia
  5. Hebrew Union College Annual Vol. 81 (2010), pp. 105-126 (22 pages) Published by: Hebrew Union College Press
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Bibliography
  • ^ Rubinstein, William D. (22 February 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230304666. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
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