   since antiquity, a number of jewish communities have been established in many parts of asia migrating or fleeing eastward from their place of origin in mesopotamia. some examples of ancient jewish communities in asia are: in iran (persian jews) and iraq (iraqi jews); the georgian jews and mountain jews of the caucasus; the bene israel, the baghdadi jews and the cochin jews of india (jews in india); and the bukharan jews of central asia. china once had an established jewish community in kaifeng. here is a partial list of some prominent asian jews, arranged by country of origin. note that those regions of asia where arabic or russian or turkish predominate are excluded from this list (except for the baghdadi jews from india and southeast asia); see arab jews, ashkenazi jews and sephardi jews for information on these populations. ==azerbaijan== * max black, philosopher * misha black, designer; brother of max black * bella davidovich, pianist * gavril abramovich ilizarov, soviet physician, known for inventing the ilizarov apparatus * lev landau, physicist, nobel prize (1962) * lev nussimbaum, writer (a.k.a. kurban said) * vladimir rokhlin, mathematician ==china==  * morris cohen, bodyguard of sun yat-sen * misha dichter, pianist (chinese-born) * israel epstein, journalist, author * edmond fischer, biochemist, nobel prize (1992) (chinese-born; jewish father) * jakob rosenfeld, doctor and general in the people's liberation army * sidney shapiro, member of the people's political consultative council * zhao yingcheng (hebrew: moshe ben abram), ming dynasty mandarin ==hong kong== * ellis, elly, lawrence, & michael kadoorie, businesspeople * matthew nathan, hong kong governor (1904) * victor sassoon, businessman and hotelier ==india== *sarah avraham, indian-born israeli 2014 women's world thai kickboxing champion * joseph rabban, given copper plates of special grants from the chera ruler bhaskara ravivarman ii from kerala in south india * david abraham cheulkar, actor * nissim ezekiel, poet * j f r jacob, former governor of punjab and goa; the chief of staff of the indian army's eastern command * gerry judah, artist and designer * anish kapoor, sculptor (baghdadi jewish mother) * samson kehimkar, musician * ezekiel isaac malekar, bene israel rabbi * pearl padamsee, theatre personality (p
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