history of the Jews in Sudan

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The history of the Jews in Sudan reaches back over a century. It ranges from a difficult period of religious intolerance to prosperity for the country's Jewish population and then back to a nearly complete disappearance of the community, almost all of which took place in the twentieth century.

See also

• Jewish history
• Jewish ethnic divisions

Notes

References

• Malka, Eli [April 1997]. Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi: Jews of the Sudan. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0815681229. 

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