premise: Mizrahi (or  eastern ) Jews are from West Asia, Central Asia, and North Africa, including black-eyed, high-cheekboned Yemenite Jews; Jews from the mountains of Kurdistan and the dusty plateaus of Bukhara; and Iraqi Jews, whose community existed from the days of the Babylonian Captivity in the sixth century b.c. until modern times.
hypothesis: The Iraqi Jews are the least amount in quantity yet identify the most strongly with Jewish culture.