Yahudi Mesir adalah komunitas orang Yahudi di Mesir yang mulai bermukim sejak awal abad ke-20 M. Jumlah orang Yahudi di Mesir mengalami penurunan dari 70–80 ribu jiwa pada tahun 1922 menjadi sekitar 2 ribu jiwa pada tahun 2007.
Permukiman
suntingPada tahun 1922, orang Yahudi di Mesir berjumlah antara 75.000 hingga 80.000 jiwa.[1] Pada periode 1940-an, penduduk Yahudi-Mesir dari kalangan elite di Mesir bermukim di Distrik Kota Taman, Kairo. Keluarga Yahudi-Mesir yang menghuninya antara lain keluarga Cicurel dan Qattawi. Kedua keluarga tersebut memiliki peran penting dalam ekonomi Mesir.[2] Pada tahun 2007, jumlah Yahudi Mesir sekitar 2.000 jiwa.[3]
Referensi
sunting- ^ The 1947 census gives 65,639, possibly too low. See Joel Beinin.The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998. Introduction.
- ^ Usmani, Ahmad Rofi' (Juni 2011). Hidayat, Yadi Saeful (ed.). Dari Istana Topkapi hingga Eksotisme Masjid Al-Azhar: Menjelajah Pesona Istanbul, Kairo, Alexandria, dan Kota-Kota Lain di Turki dan Mesir. Bandung: Mizania. hlm. 66–67. ISBN 978-602-8236-98-0. Pemeliharaan CS1: Status URL (link)
- ^ "Egypt International Religious Freedom Report 2007". BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR. Diakses tanggal 11 January 2014.
Bibliografi
sunting- Artikel ini memadukan teks dari Jewish Encyclopedia 1901–1906 article "Egypt", sebuah terbitan yang kini berada di ranah publik.
- The Works of Josephus, Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition (Translated by William Whiston, A.M.) Peabody Massachusetts:Hendrickson Publishers, 1987 (Fifth Printing:Jan.1991): Antiquities of the Jews, Book 12, chapters 1 and 2, pp. 308–9. Earlier edition available at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/27097614/Josephus-COMPLETE-WORKS
- Gudrun Krämer, The Jews in Modern Egypt, 1914–1952, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989
- Mourad El-Kodsi, The Karaite Jews of Egypt, 1882–1986, Lyons, NY: Wilprint, 1987.
Pranala luar
sunting- Bassatine News: The only Jewish newsletter reporting directly from Egypt
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- Jews expelled from Egypt left behind a piece of their hearts Diarsipkan 2007-01-28 di Wayback Machine.
- Briefly Investigating the Origin of the Ancient Jewish Community at Elephantine: A Review Diarsipkan 2017-06-30 di Wayback Machine.
- Egyptian Jews look back with anger, love
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