page_title: History of the Jews in Afghanistan
hierarchical_section_title: History of the Jews in Afghanistan
caption_attribution_description: English: A Jewish cemetery in Herat, Afghanistan فارسی: قبرستان موسایی ها در هرات. مقبره ای که در پس زمینه دیده میشود مقبره سلطان آقا یکی از اولیاء الله هرات است.
context_page_description: The history of the Jews in Afghanistan goes back nearly 1,500 years, but the community has been reduced greatly because of emigration. Afghan Jewish communities now exist mostly in Israel, and the United States.
  The Jews had formed a community of leather and karakul merchants, landowners and money lenders alike. The large Jewish families mostly lived in the border city of Herat, while the families' patriarchs traveled back and forth on trading trips across the mountains of Afghanistan on whose rocks their prayers were carved in Hebrew and sometimes even Aramaic, moving between the routes on the ancient silk road. Jews also settled in the capital city of Kabul.
  As of 2019, only one known Jew, Zablon Simintov, remains residing in Afghanistan; he cares for a synagogue in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
context_section_description: The history of the Jews in Afghanistan goes back nearly 1,500 years, but the community has been reduced greatly because of emigration. Afghan Jewish communities now exist mostly in Israel, and the United States.
  The Jews had formed a community of leather and karakul merchants, landowners and money lenders alike. The large Jewish families mostly lived in the border city of Herat, while the families' patriarchs traveled back and forth on trading trips across the mountains of Afghanistan on whose rocks their prayers were carved in Hebrew and sometimes even Aramaic, moving between the routes on the ancient silk road.  Jews also settled in the capital city of Kabul.
  As of 2019, only one known Jew, Zablon Simintov, remains  residing in Afghanistan; he cares for a synagogue in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
caption: Jewish cemetery in Herat, Afghanistan.
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