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Descendants Of Sudan Jews Hope To Connect With Israel By Menna Zaki
04/06/21 AT 11:00 PM
In a corner of a shabby central Khartoum neighbourhood, Hebrew-lettered gravestones jut up from a rubble-strewn plot, remnants of the small but vibrant Jewish community that once lived in Sudan.
The cemetery stood for years as a reminder of an oft-overlooked chapter in Sudan s history, but for decades it has been neglected, abandoned among cracked streets littered with trash and lined by tyre shops. All we have from Sudan s Jewish community is this run-down cemetery, some old photos and memories, pharmacist Mansour Israil told AFP.
The grandson of an Iraqi Jew who settled in Sudan, Israil, whose family later converted to Islam, still lives in a neighbourhood once known as the Jewish quarter in Omdurman, the capital s twin city across the Nile river.
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This picture taken on February 17, 2021 shows a view of grave markers at the 800-square-meter Jewish Cemetery in Sudan s capital Khartoum, west of al-Hurriya Street (in the city-center of the capital). (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)
Amin Israil (bottom), the grandson of an Iraqi Jew who settled in Sudan and whose family later converted to Islam, his daughter Salma (L), and Yosar Basha (R), another Sudanese woman descended of Jewish origins, pose for a photo together at Israil s home during an interview with AFP in Wad Madani, the capital of Sudan s east-central al-Jazirah state, on February 11, 2021. - The Jewish community in Sudan was one of the smallest in the Middle East, but it, like those of other Arab states, dwindled in the latter half of the 20th century, as tensions surrounding the 1948 creation of Israel permeated the region. Like elsewhere in the Arab world, Sudanese Jews bore the brunt of growing anti-Israel sentiment amid conflict with the Jewish state.
In a corner of a shabby central Khartoum neighbourhood, Hebrew-lettered gravestones jut up from a rubble-strewn plot, remnants of the small but vibrant Jewish community that once lived in Sudan.
The cemetery stood for years as a reminder of an oft-overlooked chapter in Sudan s history, but for decades it has been neglected, abandoned among cracked streets littered with trash and lined by tyre shops. All we have from Sudan s Jewish community is this run-down cemetery, some old photos and memories, pharmacist Mansour Israil told AFP.
The grandson of an Iraqi Jew who settled in Sudan, Israil, whose family later converted to Islam, still lives in a neighbourhood once known as the Jewish quarter in Omdurman, the capital s twin city across the Nile river.
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