Back پیشینه یهودیان در مالزی Persian Histoire des Juifs en Malaisie French יהדות מלזיה HE Yahudi-Malaysia ID Istorya de los djudios en Malasia LAD Sejarah orang Yahudi di Malaysia Malay Malezya'daki Yahudilerin tarihi Turkish
| Total population | |
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| approximately 100 (2008) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan, Penang | |
| Languages | |
| English, Malay (Judeo-Malay), Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, Portuguese, Malayalam | |
| Religion | |
| Judaism |
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The history of the Jews in Malaysia reaches back to the 1700s. Jews have lived in Malaysia, whether as immigrants or those originally from the country. The state of Penang was once home to a Jewish community, until the latter part of the 1970s, by which time most had emigrated due to growing state-sanctioned antisemitism. Indications of the growing racial and religious hostility in the nation in response to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has caused many Malaysian Jews to leave or flee the country.[1] The Malaysian Jewish community consists of Jews of Sephardic origin who live discreetly amongst the Kristang people (Malacca-Portuguese),[2][3] Mizrahi Jews (the majority of whom are Baghdadi Jews), Malabar Jews, and Ashkenazi Jews.[4]
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- ^ Fishchel, Walter (April 1950). "New Sources for the History of the Jewish Diaspora in Asia in the 16th Century". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 40 (4): 380.
- ^ Bhatt, Himanshu (2 February 2002). "The Jews of Penang". Fourth Colloquium of 'The Penang Story'. Retrieved 27 June 2008.