Jewish community in Egypt

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Jewish_community_in_Egypt

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:Jewish_community
gptkbp:contributedTo	gptkb:cinema gptkb:culture gptkb:literature banking commerce
gptkbp:diaspora	gptkb:France gptkb:Israel gptkb:United_Kingdom gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:hasHistoricSite	Jewish cemeteries restored synagogues
gptkbp:historicalPresence	antiquity
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Jewish community in Egypt
gptkbp:language	gptkb:Arabic gptkb:Hebrew gptkb:Judeo-Arabic
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Egypt
gptkbp:notableCity	gptkb:Alexandria gptkb:Cairo
gptkbp:notableDish	Egyptian-Jewish cuisine
gptkbp:notableEvent	nationalization of property revocation of citizenship expulsions after 1948 Suez Crisis 1956
gptkbp:notableFestival	gptkb:Passover gptkb:Rosh_Hashanah gptkb:Yom_Kippur
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Cairo_Geniza
gptkbp:notableInstitution	gptkb:Ben_Ezra_Synagogue gptkb:Sha'ar_Hashamayim_Synagogue gptkb:Alliance_Israélite_Universelle
gptkbp:notableOrganization	gptkb:Jewish_Community_Council_of_Cairo
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Jacques_Hassoun gptkb:Lucette_Lagnado gptkb:Carmen_Weinstein
gptkbp:notablePublication	Israélite Egyptien L’Aurore
gptkbp:persecutedBy	after 1948 after 1956
gptkbp:population_in_1948	about 75,000
gptkbp:population_in_2020s	fewer than 20
gptkbp:populationPeak	early 20th century
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:status	nearly extinct minority
gptkbp:tradition	gptkb:Mimouna Henna ceremony
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Aramaic_Documents_of_the_Fifth_Century_B.C.
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7