Isfahan

Yahudiya quarter

City of the Yahudiya quarter and Judeo-Persian poetry (Shahin), known for its many neighborhood synagogues (the kenesha); mostly emigrated post-1979.

Modern locality anchor

Isfahan

Iran · City · 32.6°N 51.7°E

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Where is Isfahan?

Land geometry: Natural Earth 1:50m via world-atlas. Pins mark modern localities or representative regional anchors stored on Atlas place records, not historical borders and not reconstructed positions. · Sources & methods

THE COMMUNITY TIMELINE · EVERY NODE DATED

What happened to the Jewish community of Isfahan?

1400–1979

Safavid capital-era community; Shahin poetry era

1979–present

Post-1979 emigration

Today

Small community; landmark synagogues.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did Isfahan sound like?

Judeo-PersianHebrew (עברית, Ivrit)

Judeo-Persian is a language with its own grammar, literature, and history — not “broken” anything, and not a dialect of Hebrew.

AFTER · IN FULL COLOR

What survives today?

In Isfahan

Small community; landmark synagogues.

Historic synagogue cluster (kenesha)
synagogue cluster · public landmark
Landmark descriptions only.

In Israel & the diaspora

The community's story continued elsewhere — these places carry it now.

Tehran Shiraz Los Angeles New York City Tel Aviv

KEEP GOING

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Tehran

Iran

From the 16th-century Safavid mahalleh through Habib Levy-era commerce and the 1979 revolution's exodus; today one of the largest Jewish communities in the Muslim world, practicing with caution.

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Shiraz

Iran

City of the 1910 blood-libel pogrom (12 killed) and a rich Judeo-Persian manuscript culture; most emigrated after 1979 to Israel and New York/Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles

United States

From the 1850s Bavarian merchants to Hollywood's Jewish studio founders to "Tehrangeles" - the second-largest US community, uniquely multi-stream (Persian, Israeli, Russian, Orthodox).

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SOURCES & REVIEW

Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. (place entry)
Macmillan Reference USA · 2007
Iran - Virtual Jewish History Tour
Jewish Virtual Library · open source

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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