to "Paul-e-theism"-- can you answer me this?

Question

Why was it that over 20,000 Jews left Iran in the first year after the 1979 Islamic Revolution?



or why since 1940's, 85% of Persian Jews have emigrated out of Iran.

If your going to bost about There being a large Jewish community in Iran you should be able to explain why most of them left.

Answer 1

I think he's gotcha there, P!
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Answer 2

Because they migrated to the Illegal and Aparthied State of Israel. ok a question for you too... why isnt there very little trace of Muslims in Al Andalus even though they had over 800 years of rule and the area flourished!!!

Answer 3

Let's see, Islamic fundamentalism has run Jews out of a land that has had a strong Jewish presence since the first exile ( despite a few major slaughters of Jews happening there over the years) this, referring to Persia. I know the question wasn't directed to me personally, so I choose to answer in detail to the question posed by a responder.

And the questioner asking about Spain..well, Spain hasn't been called by the name you gave since the Christians took it over. In 1492, both Jews and Muslims were expelled from Spain. I have ancestry that was exepelled from a very old Jewish community in Toledo and that is as far back as I can trace my ancestry, to Toledo, Spain on my mother's side. The oral history goes that the family came to Spain after leaving England when IT expelled the Jews long before..My ancestors in Toledo were said to be jewelry artisans.

After the Spanish expulsion many Sephardi Jews ended up in Germany and for a time kept their own communities but over generations intermarried with German Jews ( Ashkenazi) I have both Ashkenazi and Sephardi ancestry on my maternal side. On my father's side my ancestry is from Russia and they ended up there from another migration by way of Italy. That family oral history isn't as clear except that my grandmother was told that her family had been there in that part of Russia for several hundred years after leaving Italy. A massive number of Russian Jews are of ancestry from the Jews who fled the ghettos of Italy ( where the word ghetto originated)

More about Toledo that also tells of the Muslim expulsion that answers the respondent's question about Al-Andalus ( the name that the Moors called Spain after the Arab-Berber invasion and conquest beginning in 711)
http://www.sephardicstudies.org/decree.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo,_Spain < article that mentions the expulsions of 1492.

another article that is also very good:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/expulsion.html

Both of these are history questions whose answers are easily obtainable using a search engine for those who didn't know already.

EVEN a TRAVEL page from where I copied this very last part is readily available..and it dispells that there was unified Muslim rule of Spain for 800 years, too. Read the whole article, I've only posted excerpts

http://www.spanish-fiestas.com/andalucia/history-moorish-spain3.htm

In 1212 a united army of Spanish and European soldiers utterly destroyed the Almohad army at Navas de Tolosa, an event which marked the beginning of the end for Moorish Spain.




Many writers refer to Moorish rule over Spain spanning the 800 years from 711 to 1492 yet this is a misconception. The reality is that the Berber-Hispanic Muslims inhabited two-thirds of the peninsula for 375 years, about half of it for another 160 years and finally the kingdom of Granada for the remaining 244 years.

When Fernando III died the reconquest seemed to die with him and the deal struck over Granada would last for another two centuries. In 1479 The merger of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon under Los Reyes Católicos (Fernando and Isabel) would soon lead to the fall of the kingdom of Granada and the end of Moorish rule in Spain.

The town of Santa Fe lies just outside Granada on the road to Malaga. It was set up in 1491 as a base camp from where to conduct the final conquest of Moorish Spain. The town represents the birthplace of modern Spain and it was here that Columbus received permission to begin his great voyage.

The kingdom of Granada included modern day Granada, Almeria and Malaga. Its rulers, the Nasrid dynasty, had retired to a pleasure seeking existence within the confines of the Alhambra palace. Jealousies stemming from the harem were the source of instability of Moorish Spain and would ultimately be influential in the fall of Granada.

Within the harem various sons could be born to different mothers each with equal rights to the throne. Granada was split between the supporters of Mulay's wife, Aixa, and her son Boabdil on one side and a beautiful Christian prisoner called Soraya on the other. Civil war ensued when the sultan chose Soraya over Aixa and her son. Los Reyes Católicos couldn't believe their luck as Granada slowly self-destructed. Aixa's followers gained the upper hand and Mulay fled to the protection of his brother who was governor of Malaga.

Boabdil was captured and made a deal with Fernando whereby he promised to surrender Granada once his father and uncle were vanquished. Malaga fell in 1487 and shortly after Almeria was captured but Boabdil refused to surrender Granada setting the stage for a final invasion.

Rather than attack, Fernando chose to blockade Granada. After months of stalemate and negotiations Boabdil surrendered in return for 30,000 gold coins, part of the Alpujarras mountains to the south of Granada and political and religious freedom for his subjects. On January 2nd 1492 Los Reyes Católicos marched into Granada and the last stronghold of Moorish Spain came to an end.