Les Juifs de Saigon–Hô Chi Minh-Ville

Under French colonial rule in Indochina, Saigon was home to a small Jewish community composed of European expatriates, civil servants, and merchants, among them Jews from North Africa and the Near East as well as Baghdadis. The community had an organized life during the colonial period and continued to exist under the Republic of South Vietnam, with a synagogue. The fall of the South Vietnamese regime in 1975 led to the departure of its members, who dispersed to France, Israel, the United States, and other countries. The Jewish presence there then disappeared as an organized community.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
• Jewish Virtual Library ↗