Region: Kenya
Intersection register · custodian, not owner
Mombasa, Kenya's principal port, welcomed in the 19th–20th centuries Jewish merchants originating from Baghdad and India, integrated into the commercial networks of the Indian Ocean and British East Africa. This presence, essentially mercantile in nature, never constituted a structured community in the institutional sense of the term.
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The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Mombasa give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
- Jewish Virtual Library ↗
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