Yangon (Rangoon)

Rangoon

Baghdadi-era port community (Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue, 1896) once ~2,500 strong; today fewer than 20 Jews remain.

Modern locality anchor

Yangon (Rangoon)

Myanmar · City · 16.8°N 96.2°E

This anchor orients the sourced locality record. It is not a reconstructed historical position or border; the single map below provides geographic context.

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Where is Yangon (Rangoon)?

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 Yangon (Rangoon)?

1850–1942

Baghdadi settlement era (1850s)

This section addresses destruction and loss. It is one chapter, not the whole story — continue to what survives and what was created after

1942–1945

Japanese occupation-era flight

1962–present

Decline post-1962 (nationalization era)

Today

Under 20 residents; maintained landmark synagogue.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did Yangon (Rangoon) sound like?

Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit)Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic 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 Yangon (Rangoon)

Under 20 residents; maintained landmark synagogue.

Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue
synagogue · historic site
Built 1896; maintained.

SOURCES & REVIEW

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

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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