Les Juifs de Kandahar

Kandahar, a major crossroads city in southern Afghanistan, was home to a Jewish merchant community integrated into the exchange networks linking India, Iran and Central Asia. Of Eastern tradition, close to the Jews of Bukhara and Persia, it lived by trade and crafts. Subject to the same constraints as Afghan Judaism as a whole, it emptied over the course of the twentieth century. Its members emigrated almost entirely, notably to Israel and India.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World — Brill
• Jewish Virtual Library ↗