page_title: History of the Jews in Egypt
section_title: Modern times (since 1919)
hierarchical_section_title: History of the Jews in Egypt / Modern times (since 1919)
caption_attribution_description: English: Former Jewish school, Abbasyia, Cairo
context_page_description: Egyptian Jews constitute both one of the oldest and youngest Jewish communities in the world. The historic core of the Jewish community in Egypt consisted mainly of Arabic-speaking Rabbanites and Karaites. After their expulsion from Spain, more Sephardi and Karaite Jews began to emigrate to Egypt and their numbers increased significantly with the growth of trading prospects after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. As a result, Jews from all over the territories of the Ottoman Empire as well as Italy and Greece started to settle in the main cities of Egypt, where they thrived. The Ashkenazi community, mainly confined to Cairo's Darb al-Barabira quarter, began to arrive in the aftermath of the waves of pogroms that hit Europe in the latter part of the 19th century.
  In the 1950s, Egypt began to expel its Jewish population, also sequestering Jewish-owned property at this time.
  In 2016, an article in an Egyptian periodical contained a quote from Magda Tania Haroun which seemed to imply that there were only 6 Jews remaining in the entire country, all of them women over age 65.
caption: Former Jewish school, Abbasyia, Cairo
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