Complex sentence: The Zimbabwe Jewish Community was established with the first white colonists in the 1890s and at its peak in the early 1970s numbered some 7,500 people (80% of Ashkenazim descent)--split between communities in Salisbury and Bulawayo.
Split into simpler sentences: The Zimbabwe Jewish Community was established with the first white colonists in the 1890s. Barry Kosmin, "MAJUTA," Mambo Press At its peak in the early 1970s, it numbered some 7,500 people (80% were of Ashkenazy descent), who lived primarily in the two communities of Salisbury and Bulawayo.