From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|
Part of a series of articles on
Jews and Judaism
|
  |
|
Who is a Jew? · Etymology · Culture
|
|
Judaism · Core principles
God · Tanakh (Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim) · Mitzvot (613) · Talmud · Halakha · Holidays · Prayer · Tzedakah · Ethics · Kabbalah · Customs · Midrash
|
|
Jewish ethnic diversity
Ashkenazi · Sephardi · Mizrahi
|
|
Population (historical) · By country
Israel · USA · Russia/USSR · Iraq · Spain · Portugal · Poland · Germany · Bosnia · Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela) · France · England · Canada · Australia · Hungary · India · Turkey · Greece · Africa · Iran · China
Republic of Macedonia · Romania
Lists of Jews · Crypto-Judaism
|
|
Jewish denominations · Rabbis
Orthodox · Conservative · Reform · Reconstructionist · Liberal · Karaite · Humanistic · Renewal · Alternative
|
|
Jewish languages
Hebrew · Yiddish · Judeo-Persian · Ladino · Judeo-Aramaic · Judeo-Arabic
|
|
History · Timeline · Leaders
Ancient · Temple · Babylonian exile · Jerusalem (in Judaism · Timeline) · Hasmoneans · Sanhedrin · Schisms · Pharisees · Jewish-Roman wars · Relationship with Christianity; with Islam · Diaspora · Middle Ages · Sabbateans · Hasidism · Haskalah · Emancipation · Holocaust · Aliyah · Israel (History) · Arab conflict · Land of Israel · Baal teshuva
|
|
Persecution · Antisemitism
History of antisemitism ·
|
|
Political movements · Zionism
Labor Zionism · Revisionist Zionism · Religious Zionism · General Zionism · The Bund · World Agudath Israel · Jewish feminism · Israeli politics
|
|
|
|
The Eritrean Jewish community is believed to be started by Adenite Jews attracted by new commercial opportunities driven by Italian colonial expansion in the late 19th Century.
During British administration, Eritrea was often used as a location of exile for Irgun and Lehi guerrillas[1]. Among those imprisoned was future Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir[2] and Haim Corfu, a founder of Beitar Jerusalem.
In 1961 the Eritrean War for Independence began after Eritrea was annexed by Ethiopia. It was then that Jews began to leave Eritrea. In the early 1970s, Jewish emigration increased because of ensuing violence between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Eritrea formally gained its independence in 1993 and today, there is only one last native Jew left in Eritrea, Sami Cohen, who attends to the Asmara Synagogue and cemetery.[3][4].
Judaism is not one of the four religions recognized by the Eritrean government.
[edit] References
|
History of the Jews in Africa |
|
| Sovereign states |
Algeria · Angola · Benin · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cameroon · Cape Verde · Central African Republic · Chad · Comoros · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Republic of the Congo · Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) · Djibouti · Egypt · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Gabon · The Gambia · Ghana · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Kenya · Lesotho · Liberia · Libya · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mauritania · Mauritius · Morocco · Mozambique · Namibia · Niger · Nigeria · Rwanda · Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic · São Tomé and Príncipe · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Somalia · South Africa · Sudan · Swaziland · Tanzania · Togo · Tunisia · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe
|
|
Dependencies,
autonomies,
other territories |
Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) · Madeira (Portugal) · Mayotte / Réunion (France) · Puntland · St. Helena (UK) · Socotra (Yemen) · Somaliland · Southern Sudan · Western Sahara · Zanzibar (Tanzania)
|
|
| Italics indicate an unrecognised or partially recognised country. |
|
