Portal:Kurdistan/Selected article/7

Jews of Kurdistan (Hebrew: יהודי כורדיסטן, romanized: Yehudei Kurdistan; Kurdish: Kurdên cihû ,کوردە جووەکان, lit. 'Kurdish Jews') are the ancient Eastern Jewish communities, inhabiting the region known as Kurdistan roughly covering parts of northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. Until their immigration to Israel in the 1940s and early 1950s, the Jews of Kurdistan lived as closed ethnic communities. The Jews of Kurdistan largely spoke Aramaic and Kurdish dialects, in particular the Kurmanji dialect in Iraqi Kurdistan.