Persian Jews or Iranian Jews are Jews historically associated with the Persian Empire or Iran. Today the term Iranian Jews is mostly used to refer to Jews from the country of Iran, but in various scholarly and historical texts, the term is used to refer to Jews who speak various Iranian languages.
The Jews could be scattered in what is now Iraq.
Cyrus
Coresh (the Persian King Cyrus).
he is the persian king who allowed the Jews to return to Judah
The Persian king, Cyrus the Great (c 560/559-530BCE) defeated the Babylonian Empire and freed the Jews.
How many Jews survived at the end of world war 2
it was the high priest's
The High priests
Before the start of Islam, the dominant religion in the Arabian peninsula was paganism, although there were significant minorities of Christians and Jews. The dominant religion in Palestine, Syria, Turkey and North Africa was Christianity. There was a small minority of Jews. The dominant religion in the Persian Empire, consisting mainly of Iran and Iraq, was Zoroastrianism, although there were significant minorities of Christians and Jews.
There are approximately 12-18 million Jews living in the world today, compared to 6.7 billion non-jews in the world. 41% of Jews in the world are living in Israel.To answer the question:Whatever the exact number is, the surveys are agreed that Jews amount to0.2% (two tenths of one percent) of the world's population. That makes theratio of Jews to non-Jews in the world 1 to 499.
Esther was a Jewish woman who became Queen of the Persian Empire as the wife of Ahasuerus (also known as Xerxes I) When enemeies of the Jews in the Persian court made plans to have the Jews massacred she made it possible for the Jews to defend themselves; risking her own life in the process.