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There was certainly a Jewish community in Afghanistan up to the twelfth century but the modern community started as an extension of Persian Jewry, beginning with the flight of Jews from Meshed to Herat in 1839. They lived mainly in the towns of Herat, Kabul and Balkh. By the third quarter of the nineteenth century there were some 40 000 Jews in Afg~anistan. However, anti-Jewish repression began in 1870 and the community started to contract.
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Lerman, A. (1989). The Jewish Communities of the World. In: Lerman, A., Jacobs, D.M., Stanley-Clamp, L., Frankel, A., Montague, A. (eds) The Jewish Communities of the World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10532-8_1
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